This data sheet allows teachers to isolate specific skill sets that the student is working on. This sheet allows for correct and incorrect tallies, average of task mastery, and a section for behavior observation section. This sheet also allows for teachers to determine whether or not the student has reached mastery after 18 trials. If the student has reached mastery for three trials on different days, the concept can be put into mastery. This would then be indicated at the bottom of the data she
Data Collection is the key component of identifying and progress monitoring lagging skills and IEP goals. The templates provided in the Data Collection in the Special Education Setting – Resource package will provide those tools for monitoring skill sets.
The Titanic Mini-Research Project is an assessment of a culmination of skillsets. The skillsets addressed by the titanic Mini-Research Project include research on a guided topic, pre-writing concepts, written composition and editing. Students will be following a written composition structure that has been pre-taught. This project is to be used an assessment of the combined skillsets. Students will be following multi-step directions to complete the assignment.
This product is a great opening to the school year activity for teachers and students. While this version of the product is adapted to an Ancient World Civilization or World History Early Civilizations and U.S. History: Beginning to 1877, it is easily adaptable to any textbook. This product gets the students aware of their new textbook, allows them to learn the vocabulary of their textbook, and offers the teacher insight to student abilities at the beginning of the school year. The Getting to Yo
The MTSS Intervention Quick Guides provide areas of concern and matching interventions for educators to use as they navigate the Multi-Tiered system process. This resource can be used building wide (purchase multiple lincenses for building use) or for an individual. These are interventions to provide teachers specific supports based on students academic and behavior concerns. The product is in a flowchart model in order for an easy to follow format.
The group of Ending Punctuation and Capitalization Data Sheets include activities, prompt cards, sentences strips, and the data sheets for the concepts.The data sheets will improve not only the data collection on the topics, but will promote mastery on both ending punctuation and capitalization.
The FANBOYS Teacher and Student Documents contains the teaching script, the student reference sheet, and the student indpendent practice sheet. This lesson is designed for both an introduction to the FANBOYS as well as a review of the concepts. The lesson allows teachers to introduce the what, when, who, and how of the FANBOYS and include both guided and independent practice. This lesson is partnered with the FANBOYS SmartBoard Mini-Lesson. This Lesson is also designed to reach multiple learning
The FANBOYS SmartBoard Mini- Lesson contains the SmartBoard file for the FANBOYS Mini-Lesson. This lesson is designed for both an introduction to the FANBOYS as well as a review of the concepts. The lesson allows teachers to introduce the what, when, who, and how of the FANBOYS and include both guided and independent practice. This information is partnered with the FANBOYS Student Documents as well as the FANBOYS Teacher Documents.
This data sheet contains space for three goals and interventions. The sheet works well for writing breakdowns - capitalization, punctuation, and even spelling. The sheet can also be adapted to additional data points.
The Fire Safety Unit is a comprehensive unit for Special Education students in the are of Fire Safety. Most teachers will use the Fire Safety Unit as a plan that will guide instruction in the area of Life Skill courses in a Essential Skills, Cross-Catagorical, or Low Incidence setting. The lesson unit is able to be used on the elementary, middle, junior high, and high school Special Education setting. The lesson is also adaptable to regular education lower grade levels. The package includes, stu
The Motivation Mini-Lesson is one for teachers to use while winding up or down the school, and even in the middle when motivation and effort seem to hard to find in our students. This lesson can be adapted for certain areas of character education or by content area. Content areas can modify the lesson by having students find motivational information about people in that particular field. This is a short and simple Character Education lesson and allows students work to be posted in the room/hallw
The Constitutions Summative Study Guide encompasses many aspects of the Constitution from start to finish. The Study guide also includes information about the Bill of Rights. The study guide begins with federalism and includes many key vocabulary terms. This study guide is not specific to the parts of the constitution, but its process of development.
The Branches of Government Review Quiz is a short review that gives students the key information about the Branches of Government. The Answer Key
The ReADER Format Cue Cards allow students to check back and make sure that all parts of the ReADER format have been included in their writing. This structure sets up a format for students to follow when learning how to create a solid constructed response. The cue cards can be used in all content areas to support well written constructed response answers.
The Branches of Government Review Quiz is a short review that gives students the key information about the Branches of Government. The Answer Key is included in the product as well. Teachers may use the quiz as a guide to introduce key concepts to their students. This may be used as an introductory quiz for secondary students or a final quiz for the elementary students.
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The FANBOYS Student Documents contains the students documents FANBOYS Mini-Lesson. This lesson is designed for both an introduction to the FANBOYS as well as a review of the concepts. The lesson allows teachers to introduce the what, when, who, and how of the FANBOYS and include both guided and independent practice. This information is partnered with the FANBOYS SmartBoard Mini-Lesson as well as the FANBOYS Teacher Documents.
The Sentence Formula Review 2 is an additional worksheet to check for understanding in writing simple sentence. The worksheet requires students to label simple and compound sentences as well as create their own simple and compound sentences. This product is designed to allow teachers to quickly assess students using KU strategies in sentence composure.
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The Sentence Formula Review - Simple and Compound Sentences includes a review opportunity for both Simple and Compound Sentences. This product compliments the FANBOYS Student Document, FANBOYS Teacher Products, and the FANBOYS SmartBoard Lesson as a review.
This 7 slide lesson gives students the tools they need to understand and implement the pieces of writing an objective. It is very important for students to be able to write the objectives for their learning in order to determine the level of comprehension the student's attain during the lesson. This is not a concept student recite, but their depth of knowledge on the content is increased.
The five Themes of Geography a Smart Notebook product that will provide teachers an interactive and cooperative learning activity to introduce the themes. Each page has the theme at the top, and then an area for students to show the their answers and space for them to be written on slide. Then the teacher is able to slide down the screen to see how similarly the students got to the themes definition. RECOMMENDATION: If are using an Interactive Notebook or a Note-Taking strategy, discuss with stu
Veteran's Day is one that is very important to our country and a day that we try to express the importance of to our students. In the middle school, there are students who have many different views of the day and understand the meaning, but they are not always sure how to express their feelings on the topic. The Veteran's Day Mini Lesson is a way for students to express their thoughts through a discussion and individually in their letter to a veteran.
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Awards & shining teacher moments
Richard & Nelle Dabney Special Education Award
Lindenwood University Special Education Award
Francis Howell School District Special Education Teacher of the Year
My own education history
Special Education K-12
Elementary 1-6
Middle School Social Studies 5-9
Administration K-12
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Emily has been working with students with disabilities in and out of the classroom for 8 years.
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