Using Errorless Learning in a Special Education Classroom

Errorless teaching is an amazing strategy to use with children and adults with developmental disabilities. The technique involves ensuring that the individual always responds correctly. During errorless teaching, the individual is always prompted to prevent any mistakes or incorrect responses.

Patrick McGreevy, a BCBA, explains in this article that errorless teaching should be considered in these four specific situations:

Making Sensory Play Academic in Special Education

There's not tired like the month of May teacher tired.... so no writing for me.... but here are pictures of our new academic sensory play tubs!

Simple fine motor/ sensory activities for special education

Noodles & bingo coins

Lately I've been incorporating a lot of put-in/ sensory tasks during our fine motor and writing time. Some of our fine motor/ sensory activities are more academic (check out this post with academic sensory activities), but as the end of the year comes and the kids (and staff) are getting tired, we've been doing more simple fine motor and sensory tasks that have been a hit with my students!

3 Tips for Structured Free Choice Time in Special Education

Teaching our students to play independently is such an important functional skill! First, if a student can play independently at school, then it can give teachers/staff the time to prep materials for the next activity, to pull small groups or to do 1:1 instruction. At home, independent play is just as important! If a child is able to play independently, then a parent can cook a meal or shower without being interrupted! I know a lot of teachers don't take the time to teach independent play, but I truly think it's SO important! I want to share a few tips on how I structure free-choice / play time so that my students can play independently.

Simple Put-in & Sorting Task Boxes for Special Education

Surprisingly, I've  been slacking a little with making new materials. Spring IEPs & re-evavls, closing out the year, progress reports have me sooo overwhelmed! I found some time to knock out a few more sorting and put-in task boxes, check them out!

Making Sensory Play ACADEMIC in special education

I believe that sensory play is VERY important for our students with autism and severe-needs. However, I also realize that academics are important and that there is a huge push for special ed teachers to be aligning all instruction to the common core. I started trying to implement more academic tasks into our sensory play and want to share some of my ideas. It's been really fun to give my students more rigor through hands-on play.