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This week’s social skills lesson (игра): E2E Awk-Words Let’s face it. In the real world, people don’t always say the right thing…but we still have to interact with them! Students know how to respond as long as others interact with them in normative and predictable ways. It’s when people don’t follow the rules that things […]

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I wrote this blog post several weeks ago…before this terrifying pandemic and all the associated changes to every aspect of my job as a teacher. I’ve been using this time to reflect on practices I want to improve in my classes next school year when we return. If you are in a place where you […]

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SECD Lesson: E2E справляющиеся навыки от А до Я. *The game instructions state that an alphabet die is required. тем не мение, a jar with scraps of paper (a letter of the alphabet written on each scrap) would work just as well. Roll the alphabet die and draw a card from the deck; identify a coping strategy […]

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Free SECD Game of the Week: E2E School Skills Building Bricks This is my most popular stand-alone game on Teachers Pay Teachers. It DOES require a large number of Legos in assorted colors, but it can be adapted to work with what you’ve got on hand. Students of all ages (even the “big kids” in […]

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Welcome (or welcome back)! Here are this week’s free lesson offerings: Free Adapted Literature Selection: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner This retelling of William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily reads at an automated readability index of grade 5/6. This text aligns to the version in Holt’s Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. Classic literature […]

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One of the absolute best parts of my personal life skills class is the peer models. I’ve got truly exemplary peers leading groups in class. Now that we are trying to navigate remote learning, I appreciate then even more. They are the ones reaching out to their peers via FaceTime, text, Instagram, phone, and mail. […]

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I’m as shocked as everyone else that schools in my area have closed for the year. I know that families are feeling stressed about how to proceed with teaching at home. Schools WILL push out materials, but you may find yourself needing something to supplement it, especially if your student has an IEP. тем не мение, my […]

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I write often about my program’s cadet teachers (сверстники). When teaching normative social skills to adolescents, tapping into the resource of other teens is powerful. While younger children may enjoy and seek the approval of teachers, teens (да, including those with intellectual disabilities, ASD, or behavior disorders) prefer acceptance and approval from people their […]

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