Functional skills classroom

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Make lesson planning easier by repeating activities. Keep reading to find out how each life skills activity is different each day.

In my very first self-contained classroom, I was lucky enough to have an instructional kitchen attached to my classroom. Instead of only utilizing that space on "Fun Fridays" for cooking, we decided to use the space to teach our students some basic functional life skills. Daily Living Skills It can never be too early to

A list of student business ideas for special education students to practice independence, money math, cooking, responsibility, and so much more!

Come take a tour of my vocation & life skills lab where students are able to work on their IEP goals and independent living skills!

I know how hard it is to figure out how to set up your classroom, so I'm sharing my special education classroom set-up with you today! See how I organize independent work stations, play area, life skills word wall, student work spaces and more! #specialeducation #specialedclassroom

Come check out how I organize, decorate, and utilize spaces & activities to be functional on this Adult Transition classroom tour!

Have you heard of classrooms having food carts or coffee businesses but don't know how to get one started? Here is how we run the food cart at our school. We start off every school year with free samples...this is how we get everyone hooked. We set up a station in the front office and send out an email letting everyone know. We also put out a food donation sign up sheet in case anyone wants to donate store bought or homemade goodies. This is what our food cart looks like today but this is…

Life skills students can work on at home

Do you practice life skills in your SPED classroom? If you don't, you should! Let me show you how to set up life skills centers.