Helping Special Education Teachers Deliver Effective Interventions
If you teach elementary special education like me, you probably have a LOT of students with decoding goals. For our little ones, it is often times a goal to help them work on mastering reading words with a Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) pattern. Here are three routines that I do DAILY to help my students read words […]
Imagine you sit down to write an IEP for a student that you don’t know well. Maybe it is a favor for a fellow special education teacher. Maybe it is a student who just moved in. Which assessment page would be easier to write a present level for? The first image shows the words that […]
As special education teachers, one of our most important tasks is choosing the perfect IEP goal for our students. That process can be incredibly overwhelming though. Here are my three simple steps for selecting the perfect IEP goal. Step 1: Assessment In my opinion, assessment is key to writing the best IEP goal possible. Not […]
For our special education students, we know that they working independently can be difficult, both in the general education classroom and in the resource room. In my opinion, working on sight words that have been mastered is a great opportunity for an activity our students can complete successfully. Using the words in their “Words I […]
You know your students needs practice reading sight words. But do you know how to do that quickly, effectively, and routinely? I would love to help you establish a good routine to help your students practice sight words in just a few minutes per day. To start, each student in my small groups have a […]
Writing the perfect IEP goals is literally the starting point for so many things that we do as special education teachers. Write a bad one, and you’re gonna pay for it for the rest of the year. And trust me, we’ve all written bad ones. Sometimes more than once. 🥴 Crappy Computation Goal Why I […]
