Helping Special Education Teachers Deliver Effective Interventions
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 […]
My students and I have been reading the book Ungifted over the last several weeks. It is an absolutely PERFECT read aloud for fifth-grade students. It has allowed me to teach so many reading skills in one text, plus my kids fell in love with the main character. Now that we are finished, I wanted […]
At our school, our upper elementary students HATED to read. Accelerated Reader was a BIG deal. And I don’t mean it’s a big deal in a positive way, but rather everyone felt the pressure to make it happen. All students were expected to read books within their Zone of Proximal Development, answer questions with 90% […]
Please tell me that I’m not alone in wondering where to begin with test preparation. Do you start with the basics such as computation? Problem solving? Technology skills? Ahhhh! It can be overwhelming, and time is so precious. Last year, I began an intervention that I truly believe highly impacted my students’ test scores last […]
