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Interventions for Executive Functioning Challenges: Attention

April 15, 2019 by pathway2success 2 Comments

Over 20 interventions, strategies, and supports to help teach attention skills to kids and young adults. Being able to focus and pay attention is a requirement for learning! Use these activities to help students with ADHD and ALL learners improve focus while improving your classroom management. Try attention grabbers, setting a timer, using fidgets, implementing flexible seating, and more. This is for regular education AND special education needs! #adhd #pathway2success

Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can’t focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can’t focus on the directions, they are not going to know what […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Executive Functioning Skills, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Special Education, Study Skills Tagged With: adhd, attention, executive functioning, special education, study skills, teaching

Helping Kids with Feelings of Anxiety & Worry

January 5, 2019 by pathway2success 4 Comments

Strategies, activities, and coping skills to help kids and young adults with feelings of anxiety and worries in the classroom. Article includes worksheets, calm down tools, how to recognize signs, and other ideas for educators at school to support students with challenging feelings. #anxiety #pathway2success #socialemotionallearning

All educators, at one time or another, are likely to work with kids and young adults who struggle with anxiety. Sometimes we know about those challenges, and other times, we don’t. As a special educator, I have spent countless hours helping students work through their worries about homework, family situations, fights with friends, high-stakes testing, […]

Filed Under: Managing Challenging Behaviors, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Tips for Teachers

15+ Strategies to Help Build Self-Regulation Skills

November 5, 2018 by pathway2success 6 Comments

Strategies for kids and teens to help build self regulation skills, including fun and interactive games, books, mindfulness, calming strategies, and lessons. Teaching these skills for self-regulation and self-control can help students become more successful and gives them the tools they need. #selfregulation #selfcontrol #pathway2success

Self-regulation is a critical skill for people of all ages. It is the ability that helps us to control our behaviors to make good decisions for the long-term, rather than just doing what we want in the moment. It’s also the skill that allows us to manage our emotions when we’re feeling angry, disappointed, or […]

Filed Under: Autism, Executive Functioning Skills, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching

5 Daily Struggles for Kids with Executive Functioning Challenges

September 4, 2018 by pathway2success 3 Comments

5 Daily Struggles for Kids with Executive Functioning Challenges and what you can do to help! #adhd #executivefunctioning #specialeducation

A number of kids struggle with executive functioning skills on a daily basis. Sometimes these struggles are obvious, like having a messy binder or forgetting to turn homework in, but other times they are more hidden. This is a critical topic because all educators have these kids in our classrooms every single day. Here are […]

Filed Under: Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

Unique Ways to Teach Coping Strategies

August 2, 2018 by pathway2success 4 Comments

Unique Ways to Teach Coping Strategies to Kids and Young Adults

Coping strategies are important skills for kids and young adults to learn. These are the activities and strategies we use to help us calm down when we’re emotionally overwhelmed. We can probably all think of a few kids and young adults who need extra practice managing their emotions effectively! That’s where coping strategies come into […]

Filed Under: Coping Strategies, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education

100+ Free Social Emotional Learning Resources

June 1, 2018 by pathway2success 5 Comments

100+ Free Social Emotional Learning Resources and Ideas

Social and emotional learning, often known as SEL, is the process that helps kids learn critical skills, attitudes, and mindsets for social and emotional success. These skills cover five major areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision-making. It’s actually difficult to describe in just one sentence because SEL covers everything from building confidence […]

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25 Ways to Integrate Social Emotional Learning

March 15, 2018 by pathway2success 22 Comments

25 Ways to Integrate Social Emotional Learning

Kids and young adults need social-emotional skills to be successful at school, home, and for the rest of their lives. These are the skills that help kids build confidence, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, collaborate with others, navigate social situations, develop strong relationships, and make better decisions. Without a doubt, these are critical skills […]

Filed Under: Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

50+ Free SEL Resources

September 1, 2017 by pathway2success 20 Comments

Use this list of free resources to use as social emotional learning activities to help you work with kids and young adults. As a special educator for 10 years, I can say without a doubt that we need more social emotional learning supports for kids and young adults. Some of my best days in the […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education Tagged With: counseling, counselor, free resources, freebies, special education

100 Coping Strategies for Anger, Anxiety, and More

April 2, 2017 by pathway2success 5 Comments

100 Coping Strategies for Anger, Anxiety, and More

Coping strategies are techniques that help reduce negative feelings when someone is feeling under stress. Those feelings might be the result of anxiety, anger, depression, or just general day-to-day stress. Practicing coping strategies can help kids and young adults learn how to manage their emotions in a positive way. Every child or young adult should […]

Filed Under: Coping Strategies, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education

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As a special education teacher, my passion, interests, and school experiences have led me to have a unique set of skills that benefit children and young adults. Here are the topics that I pride myself most with: Executive functioning skills instruction, including: time management, organization, task initiation, self-control, metacognition, and more Providing interventions for learners […]

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Acting calm is a powerful de-escalation tool. We h Acting calm is a powerful de-escalation tool. We have to model the behaviors we want students to use and follow.
Executive functioning skills are a work in progres Executive functioning skills are a work in progress. I think this is such an important point to make, especially for kids and teens who struggle. We all start at different places. And sometimes our strategies look different too. What's great is that we can all work on strategies to be better planners, organizers, and time managers.⁣
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Let's normalize that we are each a work in progress. And that progress looks different for every person too.
Conferencing with students. I know this can take u Conferencing with students. I know this can take up a lot of time depending on the number of kids you have, but I wanted to talk about it as a SEL strategy.⁣
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In my classroom, I set up mini binders for each of my students.  In that binder was a page for each of their goals. For example, we might track grades or homework completion. It could be anything though.⁣
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I would meet once a week with each student to review their progress on those goals. How is it going? What strategies are you using? What's working for you? What's not working? What could you do better next week?⁣
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This doesn't need to take a ton of time per student. Just a few minutes. We would check in, make a plan for next week, and file it away.⁣
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What I realized is that a lot of kids are not as self-aware as we'd like to think they are. Many learners NEED these check ins to understand how they're doing and what they need to do to reach that goal.⁣
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Again, I know that this could be more challenging for classroom teachers with 20+ students, but if you can't do it with every child, consider making it an intervention for the few who are struggling.
It is SPRING! 😍 A few calming spring activities It is SPRING! 😍 A few calming spring activities to try.
Lots of times, kids who are struggling to complete Lots of times, kids who are struggling to complete the work often have reasons behind their challenges. We might not always see those challenges at first, but they're there.
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