Special education student schedule

Visual schedules promote independence by allowing students to know the sequence of the day’s events. Here are 5 types of visual schedules commonly found in a special education classroom.

Special education teachers, if you have a caseload of students all working on different IEP goals, learn all about my secret to managing different levels of IEP goals at the same time: IEP Goal Bins. With this system you’ll be able to easily help your special education students practice IEP goals and collect data on IEP goals no matter the size of your caseload. Take a look inside my IEP Goal Bins and learn how I use IEP goal bins in my functional life skills classroom here.

Being a new special education teacher can be overwhelming and stressful. Check out The FIRST thing to do as a new special ed teacher.

Scheduling for special education is a DAUNTING task. Just like our kids we THRIVE on schedules (( and pretty much need them to survive)). One tip that I’m going to drive home throughout this post is that we HAVE TO be ok with CHANGE. Why? Because change is completely inevitable. It WILL happen. and […]

It's almost time for back to school and I am sure you are thinking about how you will setup your special education high school classroom. In this post, I am giving you a tour of my self-contained classroom. We have sensory areas for movement breaks and each student has a file folder Velcroed to their desk with daily work. We have a finished work areas and independent work area which has task boxes and file folder games. You will also find a word wall and visual schedules for each student.

Need classroom scheduling help? Use a zoning plan. You're down a para without a sub? Use your "man down" zoning plan!

Are you gearing up for back to school? Don't worry! I'm going to walk you through 4 must dos for the first day of school.

Today I want to share with you my special education classroom layout for an autistic support classroom. Inside my elementary special education classroom, I provide an area for the teacher and teacher assistants. I post the daily routine schedule for special needs kids. The placement of the student desks is important to keep them engaged and learning. Another teacher tip is to incorporate an area for centers and independent workstations. A calm corner in the classroom is a must too!

Setting up a schedule in a self-contained classroom is one of the hardest parts of our job. I remember my first year of teaching thinking, “why did no one teach me how to do this in college?” After years and years of tweaking my daily schedule, I finally settled on the same master schedule every […]

Are you a new special ed teacher? Do you need help prepping your classroom? I have 5 classroom hacks for new special education teachers.