Self contained classroom activities

May 16, 2021 - Engaging the hard to reach student has always been a struggle for me, especially if they are non-verbal. Here are some tips and products to help!

Setting up a schedule in a self-contained classroom is one of the hardest parts of our job. I remember my first year of teaching thinking, “why did no one teach me how to do this in college?” After years and years of tweaking my daily schedule, I finally settled on the same master schedule every […]

Setting up an IEP work bin system can feel overwhelming! Here are some easy ways to do it so that your students can quickly work on goals!

There are so many working parts in a self contained or Autism Unit. Read MORE on what you can do to survive and thrive in a self contained classroom!

Here are 20 center ideas that you can use for your self-contained classroom. I have it all listed out for you including pictures

Teaching self contained is a challenging but very important job! Are you up to it? Most of the time, and especially in my program, special education courses are all lumped together. They rarely focus on self contained, or more severe students. This usually leaves teachers scouring the internet or coming up with everything from scratch! […]

Who likes waiting? Not this girl! And I can guarantee our students don’t like waiting either. If you teach students with special needs you know that asking a student to wait can cause a full on melt down in the middle of a seemingly normal Tuesday. And guess what, our classrooms get interrupted for questions, ... Read More about Teaching Wait: The Wait Basket

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How do you include errorless learning for special education in your classroom? Today's blog post talks about 5 different errorless learning activities that you can use in your elementary special education classroom. This classroom activity is great for independent work stations. Some of the different ways to include errorless learning are with errorless file folder games, errorless worksheets, and errorless boom cards. You can check out all of these special education activities here.

All long time ago and very, very far away from my current location, I got my first job as an SLP. In addition to many students in the general education setting, I served two severely impaired classrooms. In one class, the students spent much of the day on side liers being tube fed and given