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Inclusion Fair - Unity Unveiled
Life Skills Morning Workbook - 180 Editable Pages!
Inclusion Fair - Unity Unveiled
Unity Unveiled: Revealing Strength & Building Connections is a hands on Inclusion Fair that provides insight and understanding into various facets of individuals with special needs within your school community. During this event, students will engage in a rotation of five interactive stations, delving into sensory processing, auditory processing, emotional regulation, expressive and receptive language, and a trivia station. Each station provides different simulations that aim to deepen their understanding by allowing hands-on experiences of how specific individuals navigate and learn in the world around us. Provide your school community with an impactful event while saving yourself weeks of prep time with his complete package! Everything you need from powerpoints, scripts, material lists, exit cards, t shirt files, bulletin board print outs and much more are provided for you. Click the link to get yours today!
Meal Planning & Budgeting
Life Skills Morning Workbook - 180 Editable Pages!
Inclusion Fair - Unity Unveiled
This exercise introduces students to the concept of a meal plan and its primary advantages. They will engage by crafting their own personalized meal plan, initially for a single day and gradually extending it to cover an entire week. Additionally, they'll compile a shopping list and place an online grocery order to estimate the cost of their weekly meal plan. The activity will prompt students to modify their meal plans considering various budgets provided, enabling them to determine a practical weekly grocery budget. Throughout this process, students will actively employ critical thinking abilities, acquiring and solidifying essential life skills necessary for their future.
Life Skills Morning Workbook - 180 Editable Pages!
Life Skills Morning Workbook - 180 Editable Pages!
Classroom Guide for Educational Assistants - Editable
Using workbooks as a morning routine is a fantastic way to engage students and help them develop skills applicable to their everyday lives. They provide a structured and practical approach to learning, allowing students to practice specific skills and concepts in a focused manner. Workbooks serve as a valuable resource to engage students, foster skill development, and create a structured morning routine that prepares them for a productive day of learning.
With 180 pages, this workbook offers a wide range of activities and content that can span an entire semester or a substantial portion of the school year. Having a dedicated workbook for an extended period of time promotes consistency and long-term engagement. Students become familiar with the workbook's format and routines. The editable link provided with the workbook is a valuable feature (or just use the PDF to print and go!). It allows you to tailor certain aspects of the workbook to meet the specific needs of your students. You can modify or customize activities, examples, or instructions to address individual learning styles, abilities, or curriculum requirements. Click the link to get the full description of all the activities included in this resource!
Classroom Guide for Educational Assistants - Editable
Classroom Guide for Educational Assistants - Editable
Classroom Guide for Educational Assistants - Editable
Classroom Guide for Educational Assistants
This guide was created to help you navigate the transition of having a new Educational Assistant start in your classroom or help you communicate more effectively with the Educational Assistants in your current classroom regarding their roles and responsibilities. This document is completely editable! So you can change or add anything to best suit your needs (this also includes the design elements).
Working in a Special Education classroom or with students with complex needs has a lot of moving parts and can feel overwhelming at times. This guide is meant to be a valuable resource for your Educational Assistants to help them feel prepared and equipped in their role by outlining the classroom environment, students’ needs, and specific procedures and protocols. Clearly communicating the expectations is crucial, and this includes going over their responsibilities, duties, and any specific task they are assigned. Having a shared understanding of expectations minimizes confusion and ensures a more collaborative learning environment. By supporting all members of our classroom environment, we can foster effective collaboration and enhance the overall classroom experiences for both students and staff in the classroom.
Novel Study "The Unteachables" by Gordon Kormon
Classroom Guide for Educational Assistants - Editable
Novel Study "The Unteachables" by Gordon Kormon
Novel Study - The Unteachables
This is a novel about a self-contained classroom that is full of ‘misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks’ who end up finding personal value, strength, and redemption. I highly recommend this book! I have created a student workbook to accompany this wonderful novel that includes key definitions, comprehension questions, further discussion questions, crosswords and word searches, and creative imagery depictions. Accompanying the workbook is a Canva presentation that has the entire workbook in it along with the answer key. Both the workbook and the presentation are EDITABLE to suit your needs best.
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End of Year Reflection of Growth & Survival
Editable Social Story: Transition from School to Summer
Editable Social Story: Transition from School to Summer
End of Year Reflection of Growth & Survival
It’s hard not to roll your eyes when you’re told of the importance of taking the time to reflect upon your school year, as if we need one more thing to do. While it is good to take the time to think of how far you’ve come (or how you survived the year) to grow as an educator, it is also good to do in order the debrief, process, and destress from the year, putting our memories neatly away in a compartment in our mind so we can move onto better things….summer vacay. Do it for yourself, your mental state will thank you.
Editable Social Story: Transition from School to Summer
Editable Social Story: Transition from School to Summer
Editable Social Story: Transition from School to Summer
Social Story: Transition from School to Summer
Have students who just don’t want to leave for the summer break? For some, it’s as simple as the change in routine. For others, it could be more complicated; perhaps it means spending a lot of time alone, no breakfast program, no friends, the list could go on for days. This EDITABLE social story will help some of your students with the transition from school to summer. This story allows for a lot of personalization by having the opportunity to add pictures and personal details. Don’t want to add pictures? No problem. Simply print and omit the photo pages.
End of Year: Emotion Check-in
How to Create an Inclusive Classroom in a Secondary Setting
End of Year: Emotion Check-in
End of Year: Emotional Check-in
This activity is designed to help you with students who may be struggling with the upcoming summer holidays; this is common in Spec Ed! This is a useful tool for coming up with strategies and goals to help students who are both pumped and anxious about the break.
End of Year: Memory Snapshot
How to Create an Inclusive Classroom in a Secondary Setting
End of Year: Emotion Check-in
Have students artistically express their favorite memories of the year! Activity includes blank snapshots as well as prompted snapshots. Files include PDF and JPG so you can use your cutting machine to do all the work for you.
How to Create an Inclusive Classroom in a Secondary Setting
How to Create an Inclusive Classroom in a Secondary Setting
How to Create an Inclusive Classroom in a Secondary Setting
If you are looking for information on creating an inclusive environment within the secondary classroom, or if you were asked to create a presentation on it like myself, look no further than this 50 page presentation. More and more we are hearing school boards wanting to change our self-contained classrooms and have our secondary special need learners be in mainstream classes with their peers. This topic is BIG, and it comes with a lot of information, variables, and opinions. This resource makes for an excellent ‘first step’ in wrapping your head around what it is with comprehensive steps and ideas on how to make it happen. Again, this topic can be very overwhelming! My hope is that with this presentation you will expand your learning and gain some useful tips and ‘how to’s’ to employ this in your school.
MAT1L Ch. 1 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 1 Placemat/Reference Guide
How to Create an Inclusive Classroom in a Secondary Setting
MAT1L Placemat/Reference Guide
This placemat is for students working through the MAT1L course, Ch. 1. The placemat covers all the large concepts for quick referencing in a clear and concise layout that will help reinforce basic concepts quicker for students.
MAT1L Ch. 2 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 1 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 2 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Placemat/Reference Guide
This placemat is for students working through the MAT1L course, Ch. 2. The placemat covers all the large concepts for quick referencing in a clear and concise layout that will help reinforce basic concepts quicker for students.
MATa1L Ch.3 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 1 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 2 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Placemat/Reference Guide
This placemat is for students working through the MAT1L course, Ch. 3. The placemat covers all the large concepts for quick referencing in a clear and concise layout that will help reinforce basic concepts quicker for students.
MAT1L Ch. 4 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 4 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 4 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Placemat/Reference Guide
This placemat is for students working through the MAT1L course, Ch. 4. The placemat covers all the large concepts for quick referencing in a clear and concise layout that will help reinforce basic concepts quicker for students.
MAT1L Ch. 5 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 4 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Ch. 4 Placemat/Reference Guide
MAT1L Placemat/Reference Guide
This placemat is for students working through the MAT1L course, Ch. 5. The placemat covers all the large concepts for quick referencing in a clear and concise layout that will help reinforce basic concepts quicker for students.
Welcome Scavenger Hunt
MAT1L Ch. 4 Placemat/Reference Guide
FREE: Sample Welcome Intro Letter with Life Skills Schedule
Welcome Scavenger Hunt: Finding Your Way Around the School
Welcome new students to your school with this fun Scavenger Hunt! Every June we welcome our new Special Education students for a day to help them transition into their role as a grade 9 student in September. Coming to a new school is an anxious time for many of our students; help ease their worry by assisting them find all the important locations within your school with this colourful, eye catching scavenger hunt. Reach out if you would like any particular part of this personalized for your school.
FREE: Sample Welcome Intro Letter with Life Skills Schedule
FREE: Sample Welcome Intro Letter with Life Skills Schedule
FREE: Sample Welcome Intro Letter with Life Skills Schedule
FREE RESOURCE - Sample Welcome Letter Introduction Letter with Sample Life Skills Schedule
Start the school year off right by creating a strong foundation of communication with the parents of your students. This is an example of what you could send home to parents to let them know who you are, what your goals are for the year, as well as their child's schedule. Included is a sample schedule of a Life Skills classroom.
New School Year Parent Goal Form
FREE: Sample Welcome Intro Letter with Life Skills Schedule
Life Skills Morning Workbook Routine
New School Year Parent Goal Form
Working collaboratively with caregivers is essential to ensure that we are creating goals and pushing our students to find their own level of success. This form is a great resource to send home at the beginning of the school year to collect both some general information as well as some more specific information. Having all this information in one spot will pay off for you later!
Life Skills Morning Workbook Routine
FREE: Sample Welcome Intro Letter with Life Skills Schedule
Life Skills Morning Workbook Routine
Life Skills Morning Workbook Routine
A great way to start the day! The simple and repetitious nature of this workbook will help reinforce the basic concepts of identifying the days of the week, writing the date, identifying weather, and practicing handwriting. This has been a successful resource in a lower-level Life Skills room. The deliberate practice along with the simple concepts and images are great for data assessment and collection. Keep track of what they can do at the beginning of the year and what they can do at the end - it will be amazing!
Classroom Door Entrance Indicator
Lvl 5 Sight Word Cards with Funny Jokes, Fun Facts & Accompanying Worksheet - EDITABLE
Job Interview & Workplace Scenario Task Cards
Cutting down on unnecessary traffic and keeping your classroom a quiet and calm space is so crucial for some of our students. Sometimes the location and contents of our classroom can make them popular hubs for others throughout the day, however this can start to cause issues for some of our students who can’t handle the constant disruption well. I created this sign, and my only regret is not making it sooner in the school year. There are three interchangeable pieces that you can use on your poster to let others know the status of your room and if they can enter or not. Simply place a small piece of velcro where you would like your piece to sit. I placed the other 2 pieces that are not in use off the side, also on velcro, and easily accessible when quick changes are needed.
Job Interview & Workplace Scenario Task Cards
Lvl 5 Sight Word Cards with Funny Jokes, Fun Facts & Accompanying Worksheet - EDITABLE
Job Interview & Workplace Scenario Task Cards
Job Interview & Workplace Questions, scenarios, and Writing Response Activity
This activity includes 26 job interview questions and 20 workplace scenarios to start important conversations and prepare your students for life in the workplace. These could be completed in small groups or done together as a class. I’ve used them in the past first thing in our morning meetings. We would pull one card, discuss it, and brainstorm potential answers and solutions; there’s more than one right answer for a number of them so it’s important to take the time for your students to reflect personally on each. These could also be used for a writing activity where they have to write down their responses but then keep them together in some kind of journal so that when the big day comes and they get an interview, they can flip through their journal and have all of their responses ready!
Lvl 5 Sight Word Cards with Funny Jokes, Fun Facts & Accompanying Worksheet - EDITABLE
Lvl 5 Sight Word Cards with Funny Jokes, Fun Facts & Accompanying Worksheet - EDITABLE
Lvl 5 Sight Word Cards with Funny Jokes, Fun Facts & Accompanying Worksheet - EDITABLE
Sight Word Cards & Worksheet - EDITABLE
240 level 5 sight words with jokes, fun facts, and common sentences to help with student engagement and reading fluency. Editable accompanying worksheet also included. There are so many things we cover in high school spec ed classes, but sometimes literacy and reading skills can take a back seat due to all the other amazing things we teach our kids. Keep their reading skills up with these fun cards! These could also be an excellent starting point for creative writing, class discussions, and collaborative work amongst peers. All documents can be edited to suit the needs of your class, or they can be printed and used today if you so wish!
Chat GPT Report Card Template with a list of 100+ Strengths & Needs
Chat GPT Report Card Template with List of 100+ Strengths and Needs
Use Chat GPT to help you with your report card comments! This template makes it easy for you to curate comments that are detailed and reflect your students abilities; you can be as detailed or as stingy as you would like. Also included is a list with over 100 areas of strengths and needs to help you hone in on where your students excelled this semester and where they need some continued work. The list is divided up into broader categories such as communication, behaviour, literacy, numeracy, learning skills, and many more.