Collaboration with general education teachers can be one of the hardest jobs of a special education teacher.  You need to find time to tal...

A few years ago when the teacher toolbox craze hit I really wanted to hop on board, but it did not happen until last summer.  I decided to...

When working with beginning communicators  I start using basic sign language right away.  (My own boys are no exception to this!)...

It seems that every year I am working with at least one child who is a beginning communicator.  I am always looking for new ways to teach an...

If you been teaching Special Education more than a year then you probably know about boardmaker.  If not, then you have probably heard of it...

I am teaching ESY this year for 2 weeks while one of my best friends gets married, then she will take over for the remaining two weeks.   I...

We do a lot of puzzles in my classroom. Puzzles work on fine motor skills, orientation, and also social skills. Sometimes I will have the ...

 Sometimes the simplest activities can be the most fun!  This past week for our cooking activity (life skills, measurement  reading) we...

Each week on Tuesday my students do a "Question of the week". They each have a sheet with a question on a clipboard.   We pra...

Wow! It feels like February is just flying by! We did a few different activities to celebrate Valentine's Day that I wanted to share. ...