Special needs classroom

Visual boundaries are a vital part of classroom setup. Let me show you how I utilize these visual boundaries in classroom!

Do you teach an autism classroom? Here are my 5 must-haves to help develop your own successful autism classroom!

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

Morning Fitness takes place first thing in the morning.. After school wide flag salute students go straight to the playground for free play for a few minutes. Once everyone is situated, I start morning fitness. It changes every day and is the most laxed part of our day. Every day we do different activities. Some...

I have been CRAZY excited to share my classroom with ya'll this year. This is my third year in this classroom, and I'm in love with how it turned out it this school year. I kept a lot of the same centers from last year, and added a few new fun ones (Magnet Center,

Setting up an IEP work bin system can feel overwhelming! Here are some easy ways to do it so that your students can quickly work on goals!

This week was pre-planning and I really got almost nothing done. I just can't figure out what to do with my room. I don't like distraction and clutter and lots of stuff. Most of the other teachers have cute themes in their rooms but it's visual overload to me. So my room tends to look pretty plain and dare I say, boring, compared to everyone else's. So far this is what I've got... As you can see, I'm painting my walls light blue. (They're actually finished now.) I figure it's a nice calm…

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

The choices special education teachers and therapists make in classroom decor significantly impacts classroom and behavior management. Click to read what you should and shouldn't do as well as some areas to pause and think about first.

Emergency drills (fire drills especially) can be terrifying for preschoolers and many children. It’s loud, sometimes crazy if it’s unannounced, interrupts their routine, and there can be students everywhere. They are...