210. Teaching Appropriate Attention-Seeking &...

What can you do in the first few weeks of school to help create a more smoothly operating classroom for teaching special needs students? I often talk about the importance of implementing strategies and systems to ensure your classroom runs efficiently and implementing some very b ...  Show more

Teachers struggle a LOT with building and leading their classroom teams. I want to structure this month’s podcasts around helping you do both because even if you’re just out of school and surrounded by paraprofessionals with three times as much experience, you need to take the le ...  Show more

The single most important thing you need from your students so that you can teach and they can learn is their attention. Without it, you are talking to the walls. When students are distracted, chatty, or down right ignoring you, no learning will occur. Period. So how do you redir ...  Show more

Does this sound familiar… you are attempting to deliver a lesson, but the kids are off-task, distracted, talking to each other, and you…. Get louder… attempting to be heard by the few that are giving you their attention. At the same time you are getting more and more angry and de ...  Show more

Functional communication, or FCT, is a way to decrease problem behavior through teaching effective communication skills. Shira once had a student who had a ton of language. He would talk all the time in sentences and communicate what he wanted to do, but he didn’t request thin ...

When our learners are faced with an uncomfortable situation or presented with something they don’t want, they don’t always have someone there to advocate for them. Because of this, it’s critical for us to teach them how to advocate for themselves at an early age. Here, we disc ...