Learning Simplified

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is the visual directions I created for an edible sensory science experiment I made with my students with autism.

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is a sensory science experiment called Elephants Toothpaste I made with my students with autism.

Included: * Lesson plan * Handouts: * Vocabulary - prejudice, discrimination & stereotyping definitions * Brainstorming groups who have struggled with prejudice, discrimination & stereotyping * Write a paragraph on how prejudice, discrimination & stereotyping affect people * Song lyrics in English and Spanish: Ben Harper's "How Many Miles Must We March"

This is a multiplication unit I created for my students that includes differentiated math centers. Includes: * Lesson plan * Differentiated multiplication math center games (directions, worksheets, manipulatives and step-by-step visual directions) * YouTube video links * Online multiplication online game * Differentiated math center reflection exit slips

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is a sensory science experiment I call Citric Fizz I made with my students with autism.

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is a sensory science experiment I call Chalk Foam I made with my students with autism.

With students input, expectations for behavior, learning and achievement were created conveying high expectations for the classroom. I develop standards for conduct in the classroom have been developed with student participation and are posted in the classroom as a visual reminder for students, teaching assistants and myself. This has made a positive impact on the students interactions, behaviors and overall attitudes that are taking place in the classroom. I use the language and behaviors the

Theodore Roosevelt - Life, Presidency, Impact on America

Included: * Lesson plan * Handouts: * Vocabulary - prejudice, discrimination & stereotyping definitions * Brainstorming groups who have struggled with prejudice, discrimination & stereotyping * Write a paragraph on how prejudice, discrimination & stereotyping affect people * Song lyrics in English and Spanish: Ben Harper's "How Many Miles Must We March"

This is a good listening reward strip I created for my students with Autism who had a difficult knowing if what he was doing was perceived as good listening by his teachers and peers. He benefited from visually seeing when he was doing good listening during an activity. The immediate visual response from an adult letting him know that he was doing good listening enabled him associate what he was doing with how adults perceive his actions. I print these on card stock and laminate. On the good

This is a visual poster that I hang in my room that I can point to as a remind for students who blurt out.

The students provided their input and ideas to institute a collection of what it looks like to respect oneself, peers and teachers. The students ideas exhibit an understanding of respect for the teacher.

These self and peer behavior monitoring forms are one of the tools I utilize in my Skill Development class (resource class). As a result of filling out a self-reflection at the end of Skill Development class, students have become more productive and engaged in their learning while unsupervised by the teacher. Students are responsible for monitoring a different expected behavior each week. At the end of each class period students evaluate how well each of their peers and themselves conducted t

I made these talking tickets for a kindergartner who was always blurting out. I would give him a designated amount of tickets each day to use. When you wanted to ask a question or tell me something unrelated to what we were doing, I would ask him if you wanted to use one of his tickets. Initially he went through his tickets very quickly, but soon started to learn what was worthy of using a ticket for and what he didn't want to waste a ticket on to say. The amount of times he blurted out sign

These self and peer behavior monitoring forms are one of the tools I utilize in my Skill Development class (resource class). As a result of filling out a self-reflection at the end of Skill Development class, students have become more productive and engaged in their learning while unsupervised by the teacher. Students are responsible for monitoring a different expected behavior each week. At the end of each class period students evaluate how well each of their peers and themselves conducted t

The following schedule is one that I developed for my Skill Development class. I create an individual schedule for each of my students everyday for Skill Development. Each student has their own learning objectives and schedule of activities for each class period based on their individual skills, knowledge and goals.

This is a PowerPoint I made for WWII terms, people, groups and events for my students in 8th grade Social Studies class.

Included: Lesson plan Handout - 5W graphic organizer with self & teacher check boxes

I made this visual for a student who would shut down when something was hard for him to do by himself. This helped remind him that he doesn't have to do things that are hard for him own his own.

Includes: Lesson Plan Handout - 5W graphic organizer with self & teacher check boxes