Life Skills

Do Your Students Understand Emergencies?

Teach your students in special education about emergencies! Having a fire alarm unexpectedly ring in the middle of your teaching is the...

Vocational Concepts for Special Education

Before I became a Special Education teacher, I worked at a non-profit with young adults who had cognitive disabilities. These clients...

Teach Vocational Problem Solving in Sped

I spend a ton of time teaching vocational skills to my special education social skills groups. It is one of my favorites! I have learned...

Help your Students have a Smooth Morning!

Teaching hygiene in the classroom is one of those topics that I have a love-hate relationship with, I love knowing that my students are...

Rules of the School Bathroom

Ah, the beginning of the year. I love the fresh faces popping through the door. I love the energy, the enthusiasm, and the hopefulness...

What does Vocational mean?

Vocational education is instruction that is related to a job, occupation or to employment in general. Vocational skills are necessary for...

Teaching the Unspoken Rules of Interviewing

Teaching interviewing skills is a tough task. Teaching students in my special education class to transition into the workplace was...

Teaching Students to Brush their Teeth

I recently read that students with poor oral hygiene are estimated to miss as much as three times more school than students who engage in...

Do you know how to take Data on Community Based Instruction?

Collect data on your classroom community-based instruction activities using an outing-specific community-based instruction rubric. When...

Social Skills Group in 5 Steps

One of my greatest joys in working in special education is the time I get to spend teaching social skills. Helping students learn to be...

Teaching Reading & Life Skills to Older Students

Every time I work with an older student who is reading at an elementary-grade level a thought passes through my mind. How would I feel?...

Community Based Instruction Ideas

Community-based instruction ideas for the classroom! Prepare your students to succeed at work, at the library, while taking the bus, or...

Teach Functional Life Skills

I teach functional independent living skills in special education. It's a skill set that will serve my students all their lives leading...