Special education group activities

Promoting social skills in special education is essential. Discover helpful strategies and instructional activities that encourage social skills and communication. Using tools like social stories, role playing exercises, group activities, and visual support can help improve communication, cooperation, and positive social interactions. Read more on how to help your students improve their social skills.

10 tips for promoting inclusion in special education, everything you need to know. Inclusion is a very important word in both special education and general education in the school setting. Having an inclusive classroom has so many benefits for students with disabilities. There are several ways you can promote inclusion. Here are my top tips including inclusion activities. Have students join the general education classroom for a read aloud or recess.

Using task boxes in your elementary classroom is a great way to stay organized. As a beginning teacher, you can create these task boxes and use it year after year. Task boxes in special education classroom are perfect for independent stations. My special ed students can easily go to the independent center and get out exactly what they need. My teaching them the expectation of the organization it also helps them. Task boxes activities for special ed students can be about anything!

Covering everything you need to with your reading groups in 30 minutes can be tricky! I follow this schedule to make the most of my 30 min.

If a student is unable to play with toys during structured leisure time independently, play supports are a great strategy.

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

Are you looking for fun and easy Halloween activities to use in your special education classroom. In this post, I am sharing some of my top DIY Halloween fine motor activities on a budget. You can target visual-motor skills as well as some executive functioning skills like problem-solving and overall sequencing! You can also work on math facts, number identification, & number sense. These activities are great for grasp patterns. Use these for independent stations, math centers or morning…

Do you want to work on life skills in your classroom? Are you looking for hands-on special education life skills activities that your students will love? If so, you've come to the right place. Because today, I'm sharing my top 10 life skills activities that you can do in your classroom. 1. Washing Hands One

Since I began my teaching career, I have always worked with students of all different learning styles, and learning speeds. I have worked with students who have a wide range of diagnoses, Autism, LD, Emotional Behavioral, Learning Support, and Multiple Disabilities. I must say that working with my special needs students are among the best experiences of my teaching career. Some of my students are very limited in what they can do, yet, in my classroom its as if the possibilities are endless…

What is an adaptive or an interactive book? Some people use these two words interchangeably and some people see them as separate things. However you see it, they are both a type of book designed for special education, speech therapy, or young children. Here are my definitions: Adaptive Book: An adaptive book is a book that has been well.....adapted! This might mean that there are adaptive sentences with picture representation (picture symbols) underneath the words or that it simply a b