Vocational task boxes special education

Functional task boxes and independent work ideas

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

Ideas and resources for special education students to pracitce job skills during remote learning or when when you return to campus.

Using task boxes in your elementary classroom is a great way to stay organized. As a beginning teacher, you can create these task boxes and use it year after year. Task boxes in special education classroom are perfect for independent stations. My special ed students can easily go to the independent center and get out exactly what they need. My teaching them the expectation of the organization it also helps them. Task boxes activities for special ed students can be about anything!

From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!

You all LOVED the 4 simple task boxes I shared here, so here are 4 more! SIMPLE task boxes that don’t cost a fortune and are low level for independent work and beginning learners are so hard to find. What’s even harder to find is ones that are appropriate for ANY age. These 4 hit […]

DIY Task Boxes You can spend a fortune, literally a fortune, on meaningful task boxes for your Vocational Class, Autism Unit or Self-Contained classroom… believe me. So learn more about making your OWN vocational work task boxes DIY-style! Read more...

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?…

Creating crafts in my special education classroom is one of my favorite independent stations. These visual crafts for kids are easy for my special ed students to complete without much guidance and they love feeling independent. Today, I’m sharing 4 adapted Thanksgiving crafts for kids. I provide step-by-step directions for Q-Tip Turkey, Shape Turkey, Coffee Filter Turkey, and a Paper Plate Pumpkin Pie craft. These Thanksgiving crafts for special education students will be a huge hit.

Do you use task boxes in your special education classroom? If you don’t, check out this blog post for 8 ways to use task boxes for special education. You can use task boxes for one on one instruction, classroom centers or stations, with early finishers, with morning work and much more. There are so many benefits to including this special education activity into your lesson plans. Use these task boxes during independent work stations or homework today!