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 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.
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 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.
This rubric is specifically made for students to evaluate their own effort on a project or assignment. This is a an opportunity for student's to take a look at their ability to perservere through a challenge or their ability to navigate through 'The Learning Pit'. At the end of the rubric, the students will take a moment to write a reflective statement about their effort. This is also an opportunity for the teacher to conference with the student about the students activity/challenge results and
Five Minute Fillers is a document that includes two half sheet filler games and assessment activities for teachers. When the teacher has finished the lesson and has a couple minutes to check for understanding, the Five Minute Fillers are a great resource to be sure students have comprehended material learned during the lesson. Post the Five Minute Filler card on your classroom board for easy access.
The WH game contains 5 'short' stories that that include multiple opportunities for WH questions. Students are required to both create and answer the WH questions while playing the game. This game is designed for maintenance and mastery of the WH skill set once students have already been introduced to the concept.
The Task Attendance data collection sheet allows teachers to determine and increase the amount of time of student on task time. By using the Task Attendance data sheet, teachers will be able to see the amount of on task time for a variety of activities, as well as determine the reason for the ending of task attendance.
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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
Additional biographical information
Emily has been working with students with disabilities in and out of the classroom for 8 years.
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