Teachers Pay Teachers is having a Cyber Sale on Monday and Tuesday! That means teachers can save up to 28% off of great resources with the code CYBER2016. To celebrate the sale, I am giving away a $10 TpT Gift Card! Use the form below to enter to win your gift card. With the upcoming […]
How to Modify for Special Education
Supporting kids with special needs works best when both regular education and special education staff work together. That’s why it is helpful for all teachers to understand how they can modify and accommodate for students in their classrooms. For newer teachers, learning that you need to modify work for kids of various levels can be […]
9 Tips for Motivating Unmotivated Kids
Many kids and young adults struggle with motivation. These are the kids who are slow to start classwork, often don’t turn in homework, and may even seem to refuse to attempt any assignment they view as a challenge. It can be extremely frustrating, especially because these students are often bright and capable in their own […]
Executive Functioning Strategies for the Classroom
Many kids and young adults would benefit academically and socially by improving their executive functioning skills. These skills include: planning, organization, time management, task initation, working memory, metacognition, self-control, sustained attention, flexibility, and perseverance. If you need more background on each of these specific skills, read my post on Executive Functioning Skills Explained. Strategies to […]
10 Ways to Promote a Growth Mindset
Having a growth mindset means understanding that you can develop your own strengths and weaknesses through hard work, dedication, and grit. By teaching students to have a growth mindset, kids and young adults can better learn to work through challenges and overcome adversity in their lives. The opposite of a growth mindset is a fixed […]
Social Skills for Middle and High School Kids
Most middle and high school teachers like to hope that students come to them already pre-programmed with strong social skills and abilities. It would definitely make classes easier, but we know that it is not true in many cases. Sometimes, problems with lacking social skills actually manifest themselves as behavioral challenges. For example, the student […]
Top 5 Reasons You’ll Love Going Back to School (and a Giveaway!)
Whether you’ve already started or you’re just getting your classroom ready, back to school can be a big change from summer vacation for teachers. Once school starts, you’ll definitely miss the silence of waking up with no alarm clock and being able to go to the bathroom whenever you want. However, it’s more important to […]
Using Social Scripts for Autism
Social scripts, also known as stories, are one of the most effective and simple ways to provide support to kids with autism. A social script is a short narrative written in first person that discusses one problem situation. So, they come in especially handy for really any situation that comes up. Sometimes a teacher might […]
Executive Functioning Skills Explained
Executive functioning skills are getting a lot of attention right now in education. Honestly, it’s not even the amount of attention that they deserve, though. Executive functions are essentially the building blocks for completing all tasks in life (in school and beyond). If you think of executive functioning, you might just think of a student […]
Back to School Giveaway
To celebrate the back to school season, I’m giving away a $10 TpT gift card. TpT is a great place to load up on so many of your back to school needs. Go ahead and enter below. Then head to my TpT store and check off everything on your back to school shopping list. Here […]
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