Helping Special Education Teachers Deliver Effective Interventions
Who loves task cards? Let me tell you, I am seriously an addict! I make them, buy them, wishlist them, dream about them….ok, this is getting crazy! But seriously, I love them. My students and I thoroughly enjoy using them in my classroom. I am by no means a task card expert, but I use […]
Is anyone else knee deep in test prep? UGH! I am, and I’m trying my best to make it as engaging as possible. While at the store last weekend, I bought a few items to make our test prep this week a little less boring. Today, we played Sidewalk Scoot! A Math Game Your Students […]
Have you heard of the app Aurasma?! I hadn’t until recently and had to put it to use in my room. We’ve been slaving away on ISTEP (Indiana’s high stakes test), and I wanted a fun way to let our students share their feelings on ISTEP. My students loved using the app so much, that […]
I haven’t posted anything from my world in special education in quite a while, so here it goes. I am currently teaching fifth grade, general education, AND squeezing in a precious thirty minutes of special education instruction with my fourth and fifth-grade special education students. It is by far my favorite time of day. Despite […]
As I was planning my Valentine’s Day party last week, I had a weird, random series of events that led to a math activity. One game suggested that you give students a few marshmallows and have them toss them into a partner’s mouth. I thought, “Hey! My kids will love this, and proceeded to buy […]
It’s the second semester and the countdown to the first round of standardized testing is underway. We have five full weeks of instruction before our first day of testing here in Indiana. In my classroom, I feel like my students are great at individual skills, but they seem to have a difficult time putting them […]
