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Character Worksheets
Free worksheets for social skills and peer relationships. Social skills lessons. Character worksheets.
Setting Goals
Goal setting worksheets. How to set goals.
Behavior Contract
Free printables for behavior contracts and behavior monitoring tools.
Teaching Social Skills
Teaching social skills is essential for successful social behavior as well as self regulation and appropriate interaction with peers.
Dolch Cloze Worksheets
Dolch High Frequency Word cloze activities across all grade levels.
Homophones
Homonyms words and worksheets. Homophone words and worksheets. Worksheets for esl
Rhyming Words Worksheets
Ryming words, sight words and word familes. Teaching reading and reading comprehension. Reading lessons with word families and sight words. Rhyming word worksheets and printables. Word wall printables.
Behavior IEP Goals
Behavioral goals which accompany a Functional Behavior Analysis and a Behavior Improvement Plan are part of an IEP for students whose behavior impedes their academic and social success.
Teaching Spelling: 44 Sounds
How to teach spelling. The 44 sounds in the English language.
Dolch Lists
Dolch sight words and wordwall flashcards. Use these most frequently used words to help children improve vocabulary.
Practical Strategies For Th...
Effective strategies using a multi modal approach for special education students and their classroom.
End Of Year Printables
End of year worksheets. Interview worksheets.
Down's Syndrome
Down's Syndrome. How to teach a child with Down's Syndrome. Down's syndrome in the classroom.
Superior Special Educator
This article discusses the qualities that characterize a superior special education teacher.
Emotional Disturbances
Students who receive special education services for behavioral and emotional support exhibit behaviors that prevent them from success in the general education environment.
Assessment and Final Marks
Assessment and Evaluation and report card grades.
Writing Good IEP Goals
How to write IEP Goals. Writing IEP goals.
Understanding Behavior
Handling difficult behaviors. Behavior management.
Special Education 101
What is Special Education? Here you will learn what special education is along with which laws govern special education.
Reading Benchmarks
Reading Checkslists and reading readiness. Reading Benchmarks.
Is Special Education For Me?
The role of a special education teacher. Should I become a special education teacher.
Comprehensive Behavior Plan
A comprehensive classroom management system creates a structured environment that supports students' best behavior.
Inclusive Education
The inclusive or inclusional classroom. Creating a learning environment. Teaching strategies that work.
Heart and Soul of Special E...
IEP Sample for multiple exceptionalities
Differentiation
Differentiated instruction and differentiated assessment.
Printables for the 'a' Family
Teaching spelling with word families and rhyming words and word families for a
Assessment Overview
This overview briefly describes and clusters the different kinds of formal and informal assessment used with special education students for identification, ongoing assessment and evaluation.
Valentine Templates
The leaf template for the differentiated art project for Valentines Day from Stephanie Geider.
ABC
ABC, or Antecedent, Behavior and Consequence is an acronym to help the a professional assess the function of behaviors.
All About Teaching Spelling
How to teach spelling. The do's and don'ts of spelling. Spelling lists.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is an emotional disturbance that qualifies for special education services when it impedes a students academic and social success in school.
Spelling: Digraphs
Spelling lists and spelling patterns. 44 sounds in spelling, the spelling blends. Spelling digraphs.
MID
Mild mental retardation, MID mild intellectual development.
Thinksheets
A Think Sheet that helps students evaluate the problem rather than focus on the punishment.
BIP
A BIP or Behavior Intervention Plan described briefly
Improve Self Esteem
The importance of self esteem for learners, teaching self esteem improvement. How to improve self esteem.
Curbing Behaviors
Why children lie. Help for the child who lies. The chronic liar. Disciplining a child that lies.
Inclusion
Inclusion is the way in which children who receive special education services are placed in general education classrooms. Inclusion requires general education and special education teachers to work together.
Figurative Speech
Figurative language. Figures of speech. Figurative language lesson for students.
Miscue Analysis
Miscue Analysis. How to teach reading. How to do a running record.
The Resource Room
What is the special education resource room? Getting special education support in the resource room.
Problem Solving Strategy
Effective problem solving strategies.
Inclusional Strategies
Special education classroom strategies including accommodations, interventions and modifications. Best practice. Accommodations, interventions and modifications for the inclusional classroom.
Dolchpreprimer Worksheets
Free printable Dolch High Frequency word cloze activities with pre-primer words.
R Controlled Vowel Words
R controlled vowel worksheets. R controlled vowel word wall words. Word study for r controlled vowels
Accommodations
Accommodations for students with special needs. A list of special education accommodations.
Free Worksheets
Back to School Worksheets
Special Education Terminology
Clarification on Special Education terminology, Accommodations, Modifications, and Strategies and how these terms apply to the IEP and program delivery.
Letter Worksheets
Letter recognition worksheets to help emerging readers learn how to recognize the letters of the alphabet.
Classroom Routines
Establishing and teaching routines is an effective way to begin the school year, to effectively structure the school day and create an orderly environment for teaching and learning.
Using Capital Letters
Capital letters. Rules of capitalization.
Focus Attention
IEP Statements. IEP Statements to learn to focus attention and for ADD students.
Printables for the 'o' Family
Rhyming words and word families for e. Word family printables for the vowel 'o'.
Help for Language Deficits ...
Strategies to support language deficits - receptive. Special education support for comprehension and language difficulties.
You Can Do It
Handle all behaviors. Dealing effectively with inappropopriate behaviors. Behavior modification.
Behavior Goals for IEP
Behavior goals, written after the completion of a Functional Behavioral Analysis and a Behavior Intervention Plan for the IEP, should focus on measurable replacement behaviors in order to extinguish problem behaviors.
Self-Monitoring Checklists
Behavior Self Monitoring Checklists, Behavior Worksheets
Characteristics & Strategies
What are speech and language disorders? Speech and or language disorders and disabilities.
FBA - How to Write an FBA
A Functional Behavioral Analysis is the first step in writing a Behavior Improvement Plan, a required part setting behavior goals for a student with an IEP.
Strategies for the Aggressor
Behavior intervention for the aggressive child. Strategies to assiste the agressive child. Behavior intervention and Behaviour intervention.
20 Book Response Ideas
Reading comphrension lessons and strategies. Free lesson plans for reading comprehension.
Comprehension Rubric
Reading comprehension rubric to assess reading.
Bloom's Questions
Questioning techniques. How to ask better questions. Bloom's Taxonomy.
BIP How To
A Behavior Intervention Plan lays out how a team will intervene in a problem behavior that impeding a child's academic progress.
Positive Reinforcement
Reinforcement in a special education classroom increases the amount of appropriate behavior, both socially and academically.
Build a Friend
This is a brief lesson for the social skills unit on friends, involving labeling hands, head and feet with things a friend will do.
Grammar Worksheets
Learn how to edit with these daily edit worksheets. Grammar worksheets.
Cartoon Strips
Cartoon strip social interactions are cartoon strips that visually support students as they learn to interact in socially appropriate ways.
Proactive Model: Checklist
Classroom Management. The proactive model in the inclusional classroom.
IEP Writing
The IEP is the heart of special education programming, and this will familiarize you with the steps required to complete an Individual Education Plan.
Capital Letters Worksheets
Capital Letters Worksheets. How to use uppercase letters. Free language worksheets.
Printables for the 'e' Family
Teaching spelling using rhyming words and word families for e. Word family printables for the vowel 'e'.
Behavior Contracts - Printa...
Behavior contracts for students with behavior disorders or disabilities. Behaviour contracts. Behavior worksheets and problem solving worksheets. behaviour contracts
Inclusion for Disabled Student
Physically handicapped students in the inclusional classroom. Helping physically disabled students.
LD Checklist
Characteristics of learning disabilities, learning disabilities checklists
Advice for Teachers
How to Discipline Without Stress, Punishment or Rewards By Marvin Marshall, Ed.D.
What are Life Skills?
Life skills training for students with disabilities. What are the life skills?
Social Skills Friendship
This lesson plan launches a unit on friendship with reading from Friendship According to Humphrey.
Mainstreaming
Mainstreaming definition. What does mainstreaming mean?
Dochprimer Worksheets
Free printable cloze activities for Dolch Primer High Frequency Words.
Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers are great tools for students with learning disabilities and those requiring visuals for conceptual understanding. Worksheets and printables.
IEP Statements
IEP statements and goals for written comprhension. IEPs
Effective Conflict Resolution
Resolving conflict and disagreements between teachers and or administrators and parents.
Inclusion 101
Best practices for inclusion in special education. What is inclusion?
Physical Education
Physical education for special needs students. How to integrate special needs students into physical education class.
Readers at Risk
Readers at risk, helping struggling students learn to read
49 Techniques
The 49 techniques from the book Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov have been tested and used in the charter schools of the Uncommon Schools.
Formal Assessment
Assessment is foundational for identification,
Organization Strategies
Organtization tips, helpling the learning disabled student with organization tips.
Spelling: The Blends
Spelling lists and spelling patterns. 44 sounds in spelling, the spelling blends.
Advice on Gifted Students
Gifted students in the regular classroom. The inclusional model for gifted students.
Multiple Disabilities
Children with multiple disabilities. Supporting IEPs of students who are multiply disabled.
IEP Statements: Work Habit
Improving work habits. IEP statement to help with work habits.
IEP Primary Math Goals Operations
Math IEP goals for the operations of addition and subtraction at the primary (Kindergarten and first grade) level which can be copied and pasted into your IEP documents.
Behavior Support
Understanding behavior and changing it. Dealing with bad behaviors.
IEP
IEP Individual Education Plan or Program
End of School Checklist
An article on creating checklists for the end of the school year.
Cartoon Strips Requests
Comic Strip Interactions help students learn to make social exchanges.
I Statements
Students with disabilities have a lot of trouble managing their feelings, especially "bad" feelings that
Social Skills Interaction
This lesson plan gets children with social skills deficits, especially those on the autistic spectrum, to initiate interaction with other children, especially typically developing peers.
Dipthongs
How to teach spelling. 44 sounds in spelling, Dipthong words.
Hundred Charts as Tools
A paper hundreds chart you can reproduce offers students lots of ways to learn number theory, skip counting and place value.
Special Education Careers
Special education opportunities are growing as teachers prepare to retire and more and more children qualify for special education services. Not only are teachers needed, but also classroom para-professionals, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists. Varying degrees of education and preparation are required, and can vary from state to state.
FBA - Identifying Behavior
The first step to write an FBA is identifying the behavior and describing it in an operational way so that the topography of the behavior is clear.
Back to School Worksheets
Back to school worksheets and printables.
Problem Behaviors
Resources for managing difficult or challenging behaviors that disrupt the classroom and the individual child's academic success.
FBA
A brief description of an FBA, or Functional Behavioral Analysis as used to create a BIP
Printables for the 'i' Family
Teaching spelling and writing. Rhyming words and word families for i. Word family printables for the vowel 'i'.
Characteristics of Learning...
Characteristics of Learning Disabilities
impulse
Working with the impulsive child. Supporting students who are impulsive.
Conference
Parent teacher conference, parent teacher interviews, 3 way conferences
Determining Comprehension
Teach reading, reading checklist for struggling or reluctant readers. Teaching reading. Teach reading comprehension.
Classroom Rules
Classroom rules need to be positive, few in number, and taught with the procedures that will go with them.
Attention Seeking Support
Attention seeking behaviors and interventions. Intervening with the attention seeking student.
Life Skills
Life Skills Support in the Classroom
BIP Content
Once the data is collected, the FBA is written, antecedent, behavior and consequence are identified, it's time to write the Behavior Intervention Plan.
Back to School
Back to school icebreakers, worksheets, printables and resources.
Strategies for Hearing Impa...
Hearing impaired strategies for students. Help for the hearing impaired student.
IEP - Contents
IEP contents, Contents of an Individual Education Program
First Grade Cloze Activities
Free printable worksheets for first grade Dolch High Frequency Words.
Third Grade Dolch Cloze
Cloze Activities for Dolch high frequency third grade words.
Letter A Activities
Free activity worksheets for the letter A.
Gifted Children/Education
Gifted definition and what it means to be gifted.
Traumatic Brain Injury
A teacher's guide to traumatic brain injury. Traumatic brain injury in the classroom.
Dolch Second Grade Worksheets
Free printable cloze worksheets for the third grade Dolch high frequency words.
Letter Reversals
Letter and word reversals, teaching printing
Free Printables
Alphabet worksheets. Printing worksheets. Handwriting.
Asperger's Syndrome
Students with Asperger's Syndrome often go undiagnosed because of strong language skills and approximate social skills. They lack good social skills, understanding of typical human emotion and behavior and executive function.
Your Checklist
Teaching students with ADHD, best practice for working with students with ADHD
Self - Esteem
IEP Statements. Sample statements to support and enhance self esteem.
Operational Definition
An operational definition describes a behavior, even an academic behavior, in a way that any observer can identify the behavior.
Data Collection
Data collection is a regular, weekly part of collecting information to assess the success of special education students on their IEP goals.
Replacement Behavior
A replacement behavior is the behavior which will replace the target, or problem behavior, and will have a similar consequence or reinforcer.
Applied Behavior Analysis
Applied Behavior Analysis is a behavioral approach to understanding and changing behaviors, including verbal and academic behavior
Intervention
Intervention for students at risk
IEP Goals
IEP Goals for progress monitoring spell out the behavior, the circumstances, the performance expectations and the data collection schedule for goals that are the backbone of a child's special education program.
Meeting LD Assessment Needs
Assessment strategies for learning disabled students. Classroom assessment.
Socials Skills Friends Unit
This Social Skills Unit identifies skills to build relationships between children with social deficits and typically developing peers.
Reading Checklist
Reading checklist. Reading disability checklist 4-6 years of age.
Special Ed Teaching Jobs
Special Education teaching jobs require certification, which may require a special bachelors or masters degree. Emergency certification is available through school districts or state approved schools who are having difficulty finding qualified teachers. Salaries vary from state to state, with the national average at $28,500, but can pay has high as six figures.
Color Wheel
The color wheel classroom management system is a tool to clarify classroom expectations and help understand different expectations for different instructional activities
Asperger's General Ed
Students with Asperger's Syndrome often end up being included in general education classrooms, and teachers who have them in their classes often struggle with their quirky challenges. This resource addresses some of their challenges.
Inclusion - Self-Test
Discipline and behavior checklist for the inclusional classroom.
Consequences
Consequences can be used to teach appropriate classroom and academic behavior.
Irlen's
Irlen Syndrome and Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome
HOTs
HOTS Higher Order Thinking Skills
Positive Behavior Support
There are multiple forms of positive behavior support that will create a positive learning environment and minimize the need for discipline.
Power Struggles
Power struggles. How to avoid power struggles. Dealing with power struggles
Language Processing
Understanding language processing delays. What is language processing?
Cartoon Strip Initiate
A lesson plan and free printable worksheet demonstrating how to use comic strip interactions to teach, model and rehearse initiations with groups.

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