Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
Telling time past the hour can be challenging for primary kids but it doesn’t have to be a struggle for you or your students. Learn simple ways and effective strategies to make telling time easier for primary kids.
Kids and young adults need extensive practice in strengthening their executive functioning skills. Executive functions are the processes in our brains that help us accomplish all tasks from beginning to end. We use them when we plan our day, organize our materials, begin a chore, focus on important
¿Quién tiene la razón? ¿Cómo es posible que los dos tengan razón? One of the most important tasks outside of language learning that world language teachers face is to make our students aware of the…
Grab a set of marshmallow and toothpick geometry cards to print and build with your kids. It is such a fun way to learn geometric shapes!
Can I just give a quick “Thank you!!!!” to my Houston friends who have emailed me and offered their help?!?! THANK YOU!!!! Quick update {if you’re interested}…put our house on the market around noon{ish} last Thursday and got a FULL.PRICE offer 6 hours later! Say what?!?!?! True! I mean, I knew God was going to …
Today I wanted to stop by and share some strategies for teaching vowel teams and diphthongs in our classroom! It’s always challenging to teach spelling patterns that aren’t easily decodable! […]
BREAKING: Your teachers were funnier than you all along.
I finally nailed teaching symbolism! Using candy was both engaging and efficient - a major win that students remembered all year long!
How to understand that without thoughts we can not feel and vice versa. To feel good, thoughts become more important then you may know.
Several years back all the K-6 and special education teachers in our districts participated in the Language Essentials for Teachers of Language and Spelling (LETRS) training. One of the beginning sessions introduced the the five key areas of reading instruction proposed by the National Reading Panel. Phonemic awareness and phonics are two of these components. […]
Check out these great ideas for helping your students feel like part of a classroom community during distance learning & social distancing.
Happy Sunday, friends! Tonight I want to share with you one of my favorite Kagan structures – Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up (SU, HU, PU). Kagan Structures are all about cooperative learning – no…
Cultivate lifelong reading skills.
Many kids and young adults struggle with executive functioning challenges. Some are easy to spot, such as when a student can't focus on a lesson or comes to class without their entire binder. Other EF challenges are less obvious, though. A learner might take two times as long on homework because th
Everyone loves Boggle! Here is a template that you can use again and again – just change the letters. There are two versions, one in color for the overhead and one in grayscale for individual use. Perfect for centers, bell work, or anytime you have a few spare minutes. Download Boggle Template Rachel Lynette You ... Read More about Boggle Template for End of the Year Fun
Nothing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice. Learn how to incorporate it into your classroom.
Whether your students are lethargic or super-charged, adding movement to your lesson plans will help to solve both issues. Not only is it healthy to move throughout the day, but it can also help students focus and become more engaged with the content they are trying to master. Due to the nature of English classes, ELA ... Read More about 10 Ways to Add Movement in the ELA Classroom
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You can use these kinesthetic activities right away! Incorporate hands-on learning into your child’s lessons and improve long-term learning.
We know how important it is to teach our students to make inferences when they read. It's a tricky concept, and one that needs to be taught again and again. Students often confusing inferring with making predictions and observations, and some are just confused all together! Som
It's back to school time! Be successful and avoid the first year mistakes with these ideas about classroom management, organization, personal growth, and much more I wish I knew!
As a special education teacher, there are a lot of things we need. But this is a list of 25 things that we MUST have to help us manage the classroom and survive. List of special ed must haves blog post at Mrs. D's Corner.
Hey hey, teacher friend!! Oh MY, congratulations on landing a teaching job! I’m so INCREDIBLY stoked for you. I remember that feeling and it’s so SO good. Whether it’s your first classroom or maybe you’re going back after being away for a bit, either way that’s super exciting and I know you’re goi
Teacher interviews can be nerve-wracking! Here are the teacher interview tips that I have learned. What can you do to improve your interviews?
Focus your planning by getting clear on just three things: the WHAT, the HOW, and the WHY.
Informal assessments for special education in the areas of Reading, Writing, and Math. Two versions: one printable and one digital.
To take quality notes, students need to be taught how. This fantastic station-rotation lesson gets the job done, and it can be used with all kinds of other content as well.
The number one thing teachers need? More time. But helping teachers find more time has always been a problem I couldn't solve. Until now.
Learn about spiraling standards in the classroom, and why it is a more effective way of teaching. Learn five tips for incorporating spiraling into your own classroom.
Enjoy this project with your little one to help teach them address memorization and geography concepts.
Like most teachers, I LOVE Teacher Supplies. But over the years I have figured out that there are some supplies that I just would rather buy on Amazon!
Honesty time. I was terrible at parent communication when I first started teaching. Like, I avoided it at all cost. I was terrified of parents and did not want to talk to them. I think that isn’t really a strange response as a first year teacher, but it did not work well for me. The […]
Our curriculum was designed by teachers who struggled to find resources that engaged their students and met the standards. So they designed their own and changed the culture of their classrooms. With hands-on cooperative learning
Classroom hacks that actually work in a special education classroom setting. Tried and true methods from actual teachers. Read to learn more.
What do teachers need in their desks? This simple list will get you started in your classroom as a first year teacher. #TeacherTips
As a whole, teachers aren’t great about taking care of themselves. But that can change, and these four steps can help make that happen.
I wrote an article called Classroom clutter–what to keep and what to toss awhile back, in which I told the story of how for my first six years in the classroom, I refused to throw anything out because I might need it one day. I remember washing every plastic container that came into my household; empty butter containers, … Continued
The list of ways a teacher can improve is a mile long. Since you can't do it all at once, here are eight paths you might take toward professional growth.
Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
Telling time past the hour can be challenging for primary kids but it doesn’t have to be a struggle for you or your students. Learn simple ways and effective strategies to make telling time easier for primary kids.
