First grade special education

Are you gearing up for back to school? Don't worry! I'm going to walk you through 4 must dos for the first day of school.

Are you a first year teacher looking to set up your special education classroom? Or are you a veteran teacher looking for new classroom organization ideas? Here are my top 17 special education teacher must haves for your classroom. These Amazon must haves include supplies for prepping special education resources, resources for setting up adapted books, everything you need to create visuals and for ideas for classroom management. Grab these supplies on Amazon and start organizing this year.

BACK.TO.SCHOOL! Back to school season can be an roller coaster of emotions. The excitement of what lies ahead, mixed with the reality check that summer is coming to a halt. Whatever your feelings might be at this moment, we all know one thing… we have to start planning. Planning for the first week of school […]

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

These sight word activities are so easy to prepare! You can use them for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade -and even older students! I can see how many of these would work for kids in special education, too. #sightwords #teachingreading

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

Are you a new teacher? I thought that my teacher prep program had prepared me for anything that would come my way….and I wrong!

Resource Downloads & Teaching Advice

Differentiation can be an efficient way to teach sight words. It can also be quick and easy with these ideas for improving how you teach sight words.

Special education teachers, if you have a caseload of students all working on different IEP goals, learn all about my secret to managing different levels of IEP goals at the same time: IEP Goal Bins. With this system you’ll be able to easily help your special education students practice IEP goals and collect data on IEP goals no matter the size of your caseload. Take a look inside my IEP Goal Bins and learn how I use IEP goal bins in my functional life skills classroom here.