Early childhood special education classroom

Visually Closing Centers in a Special Education Preschool Classroom

Wondering how to setup your ECSE classroom? Today I am giving you my top teaching tips for creating a positive classroom environment for your special education students. I share my calm are, my teacher desk area, whole group lesson area and more. Find ECSE classroom setup tips including student schedules, word walls, dramatic play centers and more.

Visual schedules are crucial for student success in special education. Today, I am sharing everything you need to know about special education schedules. I share how to prep schedules for students in your self-contained classroom, how to set up special education schedules, and ways to teach your special education students how to use them. This is so important for classroom management. It will help decrease behavior problems throughout the day. Learn more here!

4 Must Do's on the First Day of Pre-K. Worried you missed something while lesson planning for the first day of school?

Independent sitting is an important milestone! In this blog post, I’m sharing five effective ways to promote independent sitting in early childhood special education. I talk about adaptive seating and positioning, sensory integration activities, as well as functional play and games. I also talk about fine motor activities and how these promote independent sitting. Learn more now!

Cause and effect toys are fun, engaging and challenging. Some examples of cause and effect toys are toys with buttons, musical toys and pop

Errorless tasks are great for any special education or early childhood classroom.These mini binder tasks are arranged in a such a way, that the icons which correspond to the image are located at the bottom of the page. The student will choose any icon and stick it on one of the Velcro spaces within that image. The beauty of these tasks is that there is no wrong answer!

I cannot believe a new school year is right around the corner! I love the excitement that I new school year brings. I also love the planning and preparation that I new school year brings. I have slowly been easing myself back into "work mode," analyzing my class schedule, staff assignments, and rotation activities. Today, I will be sharing some of my ideas for rotations in early childhood special education (ECSE). With that said, while I teach ECSE and focused on ECSE when creating these…

By creating an inclusive learning environment, center rotations in special ed can be beneficial for students with diverse learning needs.

Are you a new preschool special education teacher? Being a new special education teacher can be overwhelming but today I’m sharing how to implement IEPs in the preschool classroom. You must differentiate instructional strategies for your preschool students. Meeting their IEP goals might be working on sensory activities, fine motor skills, and social skills for special ed preschool students. Don’t forget to do data collection and progress monitoring too.

Color coding your special ed classroom can be a game changer for your organization. I can teach you how to color code your classroom.

Setting up IEP work bins was one of the biggest game changers in my special education classroom. These individualized learning stations hold materials to target specific IEP goals for your students and can be tailored to their specific needs. If you want to set up IEP work bins in your special education classroom, you’ve come to the right place. Here you will learn the benefits of IEP work bins and 5 ways you can set them up in your classroom, including my favorite, color coded IEP work…

Special education prep work is daunting! Time spent laminating, velcroing, and organizing materials takes up way too much personal time for special education teachers, self-contained teachers, speech therapists, homeschool moms, parents, autism parents, preschool teachers. Reclaim your time and energy and alleviate stress with these 9 SPED prep hacks to help you streamline your prep and prioritize your to-do list.

Your classroom environment influences your students’ learning, mood, and behavior so it is very important that you think about how and what it is communicating to young children when setting it up for those all important first days of school. Find tips on setting up your early childhood classroom for success. https://lessons4littleones.com/2016/08/05/setting-up-your-early-childhood-classroom-for-success/

Discover the benefits of heavy work centers in your special education classroom. From muscle development to sensory integration, heavy work centers can be beneficial to all students in a special education classroom. On this post, you’ll learn everything you need to know about heavy work centers including what they are, how to set up a heavy work center, what to put in a heavy work center, and how they can benefit your special education students. Learn more here.

developmentally appropriate early learning

I often get asked how I keep up with it all! Sometimes I actually wonder this myself, but I will say one of my key timesavers is the way I organize my classroom centers. Each week we focus on a letter and a number. Each day, we do fifteen to twenty minute rotations at the literacy center, math center, and art center to work on concepts related to the letter and number of the week. As you can see in the photos each center is also detailed with a color. Red is literacy, orange is art, and blue…