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Category Archives: Classroom
Being honest about the end of the year
Not every year is stellar. Maybe a student was not a good fit for you. You struggled all year trying to balance behavior, academic progress, and healthy boundaries for you and the student. Maybe a general education teacher wasn’t a … Continue reading
Guest Blog: An Open Letter to My Special Needs Student:
In November of 2017, we were contacted by Rebekah Edwards, a paraeducator asking to be a guest blogger for us. After reading her first post, we agreed her story was something worth sharing. Rebekah reached out to us from a … Continue reading
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The Professional Contract
We’ve spoken a lot about the relationship that a paraeducator can have with students, but not really done an amazing job with the relationship between general education teachers and paraeducators. We’ve spoken a bit about getting teachers to utilize the … Continue reading
Posted in 8 hours, Campus, Classroom, Conferences, General Education Teachers, ParaEducate, paraeducators, Professionalism
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What We’ve Learned From Teachers Who Did Not Quite Match the Students Supported
Originally, we entitled this piece, ‘What We’ve Learned From Bad Teachers’ and we had a long debate about the issue. We wanted to recognize that just because the teacher didn’t match a student’s learning style or need the teacher wasn’t … Continue reading
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Dear General Education Teacher…
One might consider we are posting this so late. After all, this would be a wonderful letter for the Beginning of the Year series. But we met a series of recently hired folks and we thought we’d share this now … Continue reading
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That Is A Fine Hole You’ve Dug Yourself….
Behavior is an ongoing elephant to struggle with. Just when you think you might have a student’s specific behavior managed, something else goes awry and you have to start all over again. We know the things we can do to … Continue reading
Posted in 8 hours, Adminstrators, Behavior Strategies, Behavorist, Campus, Classroom, Disabilities, paraeducators, peers, Students, Support Services
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Project Based Learning (PBL)
This week is slightly less dramatic than last week before we took off for a week long break. But with the rise of project based learning, we thought we’d look at what it takes to achieve project based learning with … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Campus, Classroom, Disabilities, General Education Students, Group Work, Intellectual Disabilities, PBL, Processing Delay, Resources, Students
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What You Didn’t Know You Need To Have A Plan For….
Renay left last week for a quick personal trip. She returned to Los Angeles for a meet up with some friends from college because it was Homecoming. It was a good return for Renay. While many things have been added … Continue reading
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What We’ve Learned From the Best Teachers
Paraeducators are pretty much the luckiest trainees that are rarely invested in by their district, school, and sometimes even the students. But currently, in California, some districts have access to grants to pay for the education and training of future … Continue reading
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Process of Modifying or Adapting a Test
If you haven’t had a test by now in a general education class, we kinda wish we were you honestly. Tests happen. They are a fact of school. Whether they’re called ‘assessments’, ‘quizzes’, or something else to decrease stress, it’s … Continue reading
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