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    Accommodations for Students who Struggle with Reading Comprehension

    February 19, 2024 /

    What some teachers I work with don’t realize is that students who have deficits in reading comprehension are affected in all of their classes, not just ELA. Most classes, especially as you get into middle school and high school, require you to do independent reading of some kind. Often reading out of a text book in social studies or science, reading novels in ELA, and even comprehending word problems in math. Here are some tips that you can use to help support your students: Read Aloud Whether you read the passage or text out loud to them yourself, find an audio book, or use text to speech software; students who…

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    Distance Learning: Supporting Math Students

    November 30, 2020 /

    Distance Learning has provided me with so many new challenges that I feel like everyday is a new adventure.  I am in my seventh year of teaching, sixth year with the same co-teachers, and I really was beginning to feel like I knew what I was doing, and then BAM! Coronavirus… Here are some tips as to how I support my inclusion students in math during this period of hybrid learning. Reference Sheets I use reference sheets in math all the time.  But I feel like they are a great tool to keep posted on Google Classroom, or other online platform for the students to keep referring to. Reference sheets…

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    Teaching with Google Forms

    August 10, 2020 /

    Transitioning to teaching from home was a tough change for all of us.  Some teachers were probably more equipped than others, teachers who already use a lot of technology in their lessons.  But then there are the rest of us who have to figure everything out on the fly! Personally, I have spend a lot of the summer learning how to do this better so that if we do have to go online again, I will be prepared! Here are some ways you can use Google Forms in your classroom. Surveys Google Forms is a great way of providing your students in school, or at home, with a questionnaire.  Are…

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    Tips for Co-Teaching Online

    July 27, 2020 /

    I am currently prepping for next year, and like the rest of you, I have no idea if I’m prepping for face to face teaching, or online teaching… or both.  Because of this I am really starting to stress about how I am going to do my job. It has been made clear to us that we are still expected to meet every accommodation and service delivery minute of our students’ IEPs. I get why they’re setting that expectation, but how do I deliver the amount of inclusion minutes when I am not together with the other teachers and a lot of the other teachers aren’t doing live classes? I…

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    Tips for Difficult Behaviors

    July 20, 2020 /

    Working in an inclusion setting leads to many different challenges.  You are trying to manage many different learning styles, abilities, and often you are trying to juggle some behaviors as well. I think juggling really is the best description for what I do on a daily basis!  I put together some of my best tips for dealing with behaviors in the inclusion setting. Be on the Same Page I work in a teamed middle school.  My team consists of a math teacher, ELA, Science, Social Studies, a supplementary math class teacher, a specialist, a paraprofessional and myself, the special education teacher.  I find that dealing with students who present behavior…

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    Tips for Distance Learning

    July 13, 2020 /

    There are so many unknowns leading into the fall.  Personally I live in Massachusetts, our COVID cases are going down and things are reopening without a huge jump in numbers.  Also, we go back to school later than a lot of the country, allowing our officials more time to figure this out.  But we still don’t know for sure if we are going to go back to school, in person, online, or a combination of the two.  The thought of going back to school with distance learning is scary, but so isn’t the thought of going back in person. Because of this, I also have to mentally prepare for both…

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    7 Things to Do This Summer

    June 22, 2020 /

    Take a Course This summer you can take a course.  I try to take courses often.  Learning about teaching helps me stay with the research and up to date on all the new information.  Personally, I use Learners Edge to take courses, their courses are reasonably priced and well designed.  Reflect on Your Year What went well this year?  What didn’t go so well?  Reflect on the year that you had.  Your successes, your failures, and everything in between.  What can you do differently this year based on what you learned last year.  Do you always feel rushed before homeroom so you may benefit from getting to school a little…

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    Tips for Google Classroom

    April 6, 2020 /

    So most of us have had to move our teaching online.  Unfortunately, there is also no sign as to how long this is going to last. I am using Google Classroom for the first time and trying to figure it out as I go. To try and help you out, I compiled a list of tips for using Google Classroom! For context, I teach eighth-grade inclusion.  I co-teach with a math teacher and an ELA teacher and together we are running classes. Create a classroom for each section Maintaining multiple Google Classrooms can seem overwhelming.  Especially when this is something that is new to you.  When I first started creating…

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    Accommodations for Writing

    March 1, 2020 /

    I find helping students to write to be very challenging.  For some people, it comes naturally and for some people, it can be a life long struggle.  When I am developing an IEP with the parents and the rest of the team, it is important to include accommodations for students who have a writing disability so that they can be successful in the classroom. I have compiled a list of accommodations to share with you that could be helpful for your students. Obviously there is never a one size fits all solution to helping students.  But these are just different ideas that I have tried for different students. Students who…

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    My Teacher Planner

    February 17, 2020 /

    Do you keep a teacher planner?  My teacher planner from Erin Condren is so versatile that it can be used for so many different types of teachers!  I am obsessed.  This year’s cover that I selected is gorgeous! Each year I choose a new cover that I love.  The covers are interchangeable so you can buy a few and rotate them but that isn’t something that I’ve ever done. Teacher Planner – Weekly View The weekly view is fantastic.  I use it to keep track of my rotating schedule.  I track what each of the teachers on my team is covering and I keep track of homework.  This way if…

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