Updates and classroom ideas
SOCIAL STORIES: Social Stories are designed for students with Autism to help them understand a certain topic.
The ones I use the most in my room is "I Have A Question" and "Waiting My Turn". The para-professional in my room has written these, as well as other Social Stories for other students.
You can find more information about Social Stories at The Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding's website. Here you can learn how to write your own Social Stories, look at Social Story Books and read some testimonials from teachers who have used Social Stories before! It's a wonderful resource!! Click Here to go to The Gray Center's website!
FIRST-THEN BOARDS : I have found through my teaching adventures that a First-Then Board is critical to getting academic tasks completed when working with my students with Autism. Students with Autism respond well when there are two directions given to them. For example, one student I work with absolutely LOVES any and all animal books. I have my First-Then board with FIRST and a picture of our math group and then THEN with a picture of an animal book. You can use self-taken pictures or pictures that are available on the following program. You can create these boards using the program BoardMaker. Click Here to go to the BoardMaker website and download your free 30 day trial. I highly suggest buying this program if you are working with students with Autism on a full-time basis! It is a life saver!!!
VISUAL SCHEDULES: Visual schedules for my students with Autism have been key to keeping them focused on the small group lessons I teach. These can also be created using pictures in the BoardMaker program. For my small group reading groups, I have pictures of what the students are going to do while in my classroom on the TO DO side of the schedule: First, review vocabulary. Second, read the story. Third, answer questions from teacher. Fourth, fluency cards. Fifth, repeated readings. Students can move the picture over to the DONE side once the task is complete in the group. Again, these are LIFE SAVERS! Plus, it eliminates the question of "what's next?" or "what are we going to do?"! :)
Another resource that can be helpful for anyone viewing this site is something that I have created for a master's level class at Oakland University. It is titled Bright Ideas, and that's just what it is!!! It's a list of bright ideas that can be used in the general education classroom, at home, anywhere! Look at the document below to enjoy these bright ideas!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to complete the Contact Form or e-mail me at [email protected].
-Krista :)
The ones I use the most in my room is "I Have A Question" and "Waiting My Turn". The para-professional in my room has written these, as well as other Social Stories for other students.
You can find more information about Social Stories at The Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding's website. Here you can learn how to write your own Social Stories, look at Social Story Books and read some testimonials from teachers who have used Social Stories before! It's a wonderful resource!! Click Here to go to The Gray Center's website!
FIRST-THEN BOARDS : I have found through my teaching adventures that a First-Then Board is critical to getting academic tasks completed when working with my students with Autism. Students with Autism respond well when there are two directions given to them. For example, one student I work with absolutely LOVES any and all animal books. I have my First-Then board with FIRST and a picture of our math group and then THEN with a picture of an animal book. You can use self-taken pictures or pictures that are available on the following program. You can create these boards using the program BoardMaker. Click Here to go to the BoardMaker website and download your free 30 day trial. I highly suggest buying this program if you are working with students with Autism on a full-time basis! It is a life saver!!!
VISUAL SCHEDULES: Visual schedules for my students with Autism have been key to keeping them focused on the small group lessons I teach. These can also be created using pictures in the BoardMaker program. For my small group reading groups, I have pictures of what the students are going to do while in my classroom on the TO DO side of the schedule: First, review vocabulary. Second, read the story. Third, answer questions from teacher. Fourth, fluency cards. Fifth, repeated readings. Students can move the picture over to the DONE side once the task is complete in the group. Again, these are LIFE SAVERS! Plus, it eliminates the question of "what's next?" or "what are we going to do?"! :)
Another resource that can be helpful for anyone viewing this site is something that I have created for a master's level class at Oakland University. It is titled Bright Ideas, and that's just what it is!!! It's a list of bright ideas that can be used in the general education classroom, at home, anywhere! Look at the document below to enjoy these bright ideas!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to complete the Contact Form or e-mail me at [email protected].
-Krista :)
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