Helping Special Education Teachers Deliver Effective Interventions
Save Time & Gather Powerful Information Special education teachers don’t have endless work time, despite what other teachers think. 😂 Sitting and assessing each new student can seem overwhelming. Finding quick assessments let you gather essential data in just a few minutes. You can still get a clear picture of what your students know and […]
This is seriously one of my favorite vocabulary activities. The discussions that my students and I have had about words while doing this activity have been so powerful. Choose Two Antonyms To begin, choose two antonyms. For this particular activity, our vocabulary word was serious. In advance, I wrote silly and serious on two Post-It […]
Vocabulary instruction should be something that is explicitly taught in the classroom each and every day. However, it can be hard to find activities and routines to make this possible. Synonym & Antonym Sorts When it comes to sorts, there are multiple options. In small groups, I like to pass out word cards, much like […]
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 […]
