I am excited to introduce this week’s guest blogger! Brooke has held a variety of roles including paraprofessional, senior paraprofessional, substitute teacher, special education teacher.
I want to give you some suggestions on how to talk to that special education parent and then hopefully connect better with all your other parents as well that you work with. That Parent can sometimes very overbearing. Never satisfied. They’re going over your head. Talking to the administration. We all know that parent.
As a secondary special education teacher, I work with teenage students in the areas of english, math, and life skills. The high school setting provides me with a unique opportunity to help these kids. Essentially, transition into adults throughout their stay with me. I place a major emphasis of my instruction on functional life skills that my students will need in the real world.
Typically in homeroom, we go over the schedule, calendar and weather. We also take attendance together! We check in with every student about how they’re doing and how their night was.
A Sensory Space is exactly what you would think. It is a therapeutic space with equipment or resources. These resources provide our students with special needs the appropriate kind of sensory input. It is a calming space when our students get overwhelmed. In addition, sensory room ideas include a corner in the room or a separate room depending on what you have available. You can have a few sensory items or you can have high tech sensory items.
Back to School season can be crazy! You may have no idea what you need as you prepare for your special education classroom. No worries, I’m here to help you with 10 special education must haves!
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