Special education behavior

Having a paraprofessional in your special education classroom can be a complete game changer! Parapros help with data collection, IEP goal work, centers, behavior interventions and so much more. But what happens when you have a paraprofessional in your classroom that isn’t doing their job? How should you handle this tricky situation in your special education classroom? If you are a special education teacher struggling with the para in your classroom, here are 5 tips to help you know what to…

If there is one I have learned in my years of working with paraprofessionals, it is that paras are teachers too. My paraprofessional is my right hand and my left hand. She is the glue that keeps us together. I realize that sometimes it is our first instinct to give them passive work because their

Visuals for special education students are a must! Inside my special education classroom, there are 5 steps that I do to make visuals in the classroom easy to use. First, it’s important to have teacher lanyard visuals and to wear them daily. It’s equally important to implement and use visual prompts for kids. Visual schedules, visual supports for behavior, visual task analysis in special education, and more. Special education classroom visuals will make your day run more smoothly.

Special educators need a pretty large toolbox of strategies and resources to support our learners. So often, our students can have significantly diverse needs and levels. On any given day, special education teachers might need to take student reading data, modify a math assessment, teach science wit

After the beginning of the school year starting, are you noticing attention seeking behaviors in your special ed classroom? In this blog post, you can read my favorite strategies to use for attention seeking behaviors in children. The best place to start is by collecting data to see if the behavior is actually attention seeking. You can grab my data collecting sheets here to help. Then see my process of how I reduce the attention of the behavior, use a time out, and then replace the…

Take a look into the first 6-8 weeks of school in special education classroom with no academics. I will share tips and tricks with you!

My students love their individual behaviour supports now I’ve made the token board easily accessible and manageable for little fingers. Easy to make up! Once the pages were printed out …

As teachers, we all face different behavior challenges in the classroom. These challenges can change day to day or even year to year, but dealing with student behavior is something that no teacher can escape. We can however, use all the tools in our tool box to proactive instead of reactive. I have found over ... Read More about 3 Behavior Essentials for Teachers

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