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Want to train your paraprofessionals but not sure where to start? BEGIN HERE! Most paraprofessional binders or paraprofessional manuals I see just cover logistics and classroom norms but this paraprofessional training binder goes deeper and provides a crash course in HOW to actually best support students with disabilities! This is literally an entire year of paraprofessional training, all done for you and ready to go! It covers 36 academic, behavioral and communication strategies all in an easy

This best-selling product is a massive time and money saver for any special education teacher! Check the reviews for what other special education teachers have said about helpful this addition to their classroom has been!! APRIL 2020 UPDATE: This resource was updated to include an "at home" slide and any clipart you may need to create home schedules as well! The At-Home Slide replaces the "stations" chart with a first/then chart. Because you won't need multiple boxes to tell multiple students wh

This is a PERFECT resource to help you get organized as a SPED teacher! Includes 9 lesson planning templates, 2 bonus sample data collection sheets AND a planning template created just to help you map out when and how you will collect data! Teaching SPED is hard and there are so many things us special education teachers must juggle!! Let this resource simplify and streamline your life so you have more time to do what's most important: teach! Using these resources daily or weekly provides you the

A complete year of Morning Meeting Slides for Special Education Classroom. 180 days of a complete morning meeting are included! Each day includes a greeting, a yes/no question of the day, a corresponding graph to graph responses to the question of the day, a look around and find challenge, calendar slides AND weather slides. This can be used to target SO many skills and is appropriate for a wide range of ages- making it perfect for morning meeting in special education classrooms. This is great f

Teaching children calm down strategies and ways to manage their big emotions is an important part of classroom instruction today! Calm down strategies like breathing, counting, or other sensory related strategies are effective ways to help students manage emotions and cope with stressful situations. These self-regulation strategies help connect students with their bodies and physically act in ways that help restore order and calm their bodies down. Research has shown however, that people and chi

This is the template I use to create my map and schedules for my Special Education Classroom and paraprofessionals. This template will NOT auto-populate. It is just a google sheets template where I have included the times of day broken into 5 minute increments (from 7:30-4:00), space to plan for a caseload of up to 10 students and then a color coded key to color cells based on where students are. Using this template you can begin mapping your schedule for next year. This template is not automati

Looking for a way to practice those tricky social skills goals when doing distance learning? Stumped on how to just connect with your students over a computer? Enter- board games designed for google slides! The google drive download includes SIX different board game templates you can play with students! Because it's a google slides resource, it can be pulled up on multiple computers and all players will see edits to the screen (aka moving the character on the board) in real time. The 6 board ga

Grab this FREE resource to help you prepare for an upcoming IEP meeting! This template will make sure you are on top of all pre meeting paperwork and all team members are invited to collaborate in a timely manner! This checklist is NOT a resource to help develop an IEP, but is a planning resource to record all contacts with parents and the team before the meeting. I hope it's helpful to you :)

This is a easy resource for Special Education teachers to help you plan exactly when you will collect IEP data throughout the week. Provided are multiple templates and simple, easy to use checklists that will help you lay out what data you want to collect during what time of day. PLEASE NOTE: There are NO actual data collection sheets in this resource!!! It is a resource of checklists and weekly planners you can use to plan WHEN you will collect the data, Use this on a daily or weekly basis to e

This is a super simple token board you can use in your classroom. It has spaces for 5 tokens, a reward visual and space to put the tokens! It is the basic set up you need to create a token board and then you can add your own specific rewards and tokens! I believe most reward visuals and token visuals work best when they are specific to classroom environments and student interests, which is why I've included only the most basic options for them. The ONLY tokens included in this are simple check

This is every visual and form you will need to physically set up a structured environment in your special education classroom! There are visuals for 12 activity based stations or colored stations as well. There are also mini activity schedules to set up a word work station, puzzle station and task boxes. Content for those stations is not provided, rather this resource is a package that will help you structure the environment and room. This is a STEAL of a resource. It provides small visual sched

Do you use Discrete Trial in your classroom? This resource is exactly what you need to keep your trials straight and organized! This sheet can be printed off daily, or laminated and used again and again! There is space for you to write the learning target for the day (identify A, identify A-L, etc), space to write the distractor cards to use and space to indicate the field size! There is also space to take the data DIRECTLY on this page! This is a print and go resource to make your DTT center ru

Visual cards a student can use to request a need in the classroom. These can be taught and students can use them to request their needs instead of engaging in negative behaviors to meet the same needs.

A helpful beginning of the year survey to give parents! Get their input on goals, skills, and best ways to contact them. Perfect for special education teachers and classrooms.

A perfect poster or bulletin board set to remind you and your students that your room is a safe place where they are deeply loved and taken care of. Print out the poster in a small size for your own desk or use this as a classroom or school wide bulletin board.

This is a guide for any and all special education teachers looking to improve their classrooms and teaching techniques in the new year! This is a list of 9 goals, all based on current special education research, that when implemented have been proven to help students with moderate to severe disabilities learn! Also included are links to resources for help implementing all goals, as well as research articles with more in-depth information! Download now to prepare for the upcoming semester!

We all give Valentines to our students BUT what about your teacher-besties? They deserve some love this Valentines' Day too! This cute and simple freebie is the perfect Valentines Day Card you can give your fellow teacher friends to let them know how much you love them and love being on their team! It's simple, easy to use and I already did most of the writing for you! Print it today and get ready to share the love this Valentines Day!

These are FREEBIE tags for you for a gift for back to school night! Perfect to add to bubbles for students (or balloons if you want!).