Featured guest blogger: Heather, a middle school functional life skills self-contained teacher and blogger at Full Sped Ahead. What is a Curriculum Adaptation?Adapting curriculum is an ongoing dynamic process that modifies and adapts the program of studies to meet the learning requirements of a ... READ the POST
Engaging Group Lesson Ideas for Self Contained Sped
If you teach special education, you pretty much know that adapted resources are a necessity in your classroom (task cards, file folders, adapted books…etc)! If your class/students are anything like mine, it is a task to get all of my students to sit for a half an hour and concentrate on a group ... READ the POST
Dollar Tree Recycle Sorting Activities
The Dollar Tree has many useful and affordable educational resources. On a teacher's budget, even though a resource might only cost me $1, I still like to try and find ways to make the resource last a long time. This Recycle Activity Kit has been at the Dollar Tree for some time. It comes with 4 ... READ the POST
Holiday Crafts for Older Students in Special Education
As special education students get older, it gets harder to find age-appropriate crafts that are also easy enough for students to do as independently as possible. I found myself doing a lot of prepping for crafts, which is not what we want out of a craft that students will be sending home to their ... READ the POST
Recycle Restaurant Menus & Travel Brochures With Cut & Paste Activities
One of my favorite things to do is find ways to recycle environmental print items for educational life skills use in the classroom! On a teacher's budget, we are always striving to find ways to save money, yet provide the best education for our students. I found a way to use to-go ... READ the POST
Community-Based Instruction Scavenger Hunt Ideas
I remember going to stores as a child and unless my parents told me I could pick something out or gave me money to purchase something, I wasn't very interested in being at the store. Don't even get me started on Home Depot…it was the most boring place in the world for me as a child, I dreaded it! ... READ the POST
