Advice, Resources and Training for Autism and Special Education Teachers and Homeschoolers
These classroom management strategies are one of the most important parts of running your classroom. In fact, it’s probably the most important piece to the classroom puzzle. There are so many different strategies available now to use for classroom management. And this can make it daunting to decide which one is best for you, your students and your classroom. Today,… Read More
Lisa Goodell runs an amazing podcast called ‘Help for Special Educators.’ If you haven’t listened to it yet, I highly recommend that you do. Lisa interviews a variety of different special education teachers and specialists to discuss different topics. If you’re a first year teacher, or you’ve been doing this for years – there’s still some value to be found… Read More
These sheep cupcakes are perfect for your kids to bake during Spring, Easter or for your farm topic! We are working on independence, as always, with my students. This time, I included a flower tray for the decorating process. Each child got their own flower tray. Inside here was their cupcake, icing and decorating pieces. Read on below to find… Read More
My kids LOVE to bake and these cornflake cakes are perfect for some Easter baking. We cook as often as we can in class, because I believe there are so many skills that can be learned through baking. To make these cornflake cakes, I’ve made a PowerPoint slideshow for you to show your students what they need to do, to… Read More
Are you looking for free autism classroom resources? Then you are going to go crazy for my VIP free resource library. It’s free to access, and there’s over 200 different free activities available on there right now – with more being uploaded all the time! And you know the best part? It’s totally free to sign up! All you need… Read More
Earth Day is coming up, so today I’m sharing with you an Earth Day craft that we did last year. I love having the chance to teach my students about our planet and how we can help look after it. So, we made these handprint Earth crafts. My students LOVE getting their hands full of paint. When we first introduced… Read More
Tomorrow is World Autism Day, one of the most important dates in my diary. I wanted to share this Autism Awareness craft with you that my students made to put on display around our classroom. We spend time all year long trying to spread autism awareness – and acceptable too. But, in April, we always step it up that extra… Read More
Autism awareness is so important, and it’s something that we want to make sure is taught in an engaging and meaningful way. We don’t want our students to find the sessions ‘boring’ – we want them to take it all in and really take note of everything that we are sharing. When we teach autism awareness to my students, we… Read More
I’m so excited to share these free visuals to help with waiting for your students! Waiting is tough. Teaching how to ‘wait’ is one of the hardest tasks that I have as a teacher with my kiddos – and their parents do too. That’s why I created these free visuals to help with waiting. Visuals are always my first go-to…. Read More
There are so many fun and engaging activities for you to use with your students to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. In this blog post today I’m going to share with you some of my student’s favourite activities that we do to celebrate. 1. Art Therapy We LOVE art therapy sessions in our class, and when there are holidays or celebrations… Read More
