Documentation!

As educators, how many times are we asked the question, "Do you have documentation for that?" or "Where is the data to support that?" These two forms help you to answer that question.

Here is an example of a discipline report form that you can use within your classroom (super helpful in IEP/ARD meetings or student intervention meetings). You can access a printable version by clicking HERE:

Logging the time spent in an inclusion classroom is sooooo important for special educators. This ensures that the students are receiving the amount of inclusion time prescribed for them in their IEPs, and keeps you out of hot water with the law (and your district's special ed dept). Here is an example of an inclusion time log that you can use. Feel free to tweak it as you see fit. You can also access a printable version HERE:

Happy Teaching! :)

IEP Cheat Sheet

This cool little tool came from a link that I found on Pinterest. It's a great way to have one page that gives you quick info about your students who are served in special education. Remember to keep these confidential. Inclusion teachers, you might keep these in a binder with the students' instructional goals and objectives in order to have a quick reference page. Just remember confidentiality...can't leave these babies lying around just anywhere! Put them in a file folder or binder, and keep those files or binders put away when you're not using them.

To access the printable version, click HERE.

Happy Teaching! :)

See me later...

We all know how much students HATE to be singled out...especially at the secondary levels. Junior high and high school students may become confrontational when reprimanded in front of their peers, and some may even be embarrassed by verbal praise. I found a version of this little gem in Wendy Murawski's book, "Collaborative Teaching in Secondary Schools: Making the Co-Teaching Marriage Work!" (Awesome book, by the way...a must read for co-teachers everywhere. You can purchase it on Amazon by clicking here). I used the ideas in the book to create these cards:

(front)

(back options)

You can access a printable PDF version of these cards by clicking here. Just print both pages, then run it through your copy machine to print front and back, and viola! Classroom management success!
One idea would be to print the positive cards on green paper and the redirective cards on red paper...but, that makes it more obvious which card you're giving to the students (white will be more discrete), so do what works for your classroom. Laminate the cards and you can use the same ones over and over again.

Happy Teaching!

Welcome!

This blog features valuable tools and tricks of the trade for both general and special educators teaching in inclusive classrooms. I love finding new things that keep our inclusive classrooms fresh and exciting for our students. If you have any tips or tricks that you would like to see featured in this blog, e-mail me! I'd love to share them!