If you watched the Showtime series, Weeds, you’re familiar with Malvina Reynolds’s song, Little Boxes. Data collection sheets, like the suburbs, are full of little boxes. pourtant, unlike in the suburbs, it’s not acceptable for the little boxes to be all the same. Data collection is a highly personal–I daresay intimate–process. Everybody’s looking for a shortcut for amazing […]
Category Archives: Instruction différenciée pour aborder le comportement
Ideas for differentiating instruction via accommodations and modifications to address students’ behavioral and academic PLEPs to increase normative behaviors
New Social Skills Game Posted!
In the midst of the start-of-the-year chaos and crushing fatigue, I somehow managed to write a new social skills game, School Skills Building Bricks. We played it today in class, and the fellas (I have a class of all guys with ASD) gave it great reviews. We played for a bit over 70 minutes and […]
“Et, Maintenant, for ‘Plan B’!”
I am, by nature, a “planner.” I thoroughly enjoy mapping out calendars, making to-do lists, and generally knowing what’s going to happen roughly a year in advance. I love Google Calendar, Google Keep, and the Note application on my iPad. I plan out Girl Scout meetings for my daughter’s troop 14 months in advance; je […]
“Who Gives a Final in Social Skills?!?”
Pfft. That one’s easy to answer: every single teacher who works in a school that requires all credit courses to culminate in a final exam. That’s who. School districts aren’t too keen on ideas like “the real benchmark of a student’s success will come not in the classroom, but in the corridors outside of it.” […]
Le “Finales” Compte à rebours!
George et moi parlions de l'école (parce que, juste après parler de ce que font NOS enfants et de la façon dont nous allons payer pour la réparation de la pourriture sèche autour de la cheminée, l'école est notre principal sujet de conversation), et le sujet des examens finaux a été abordé. J'ai fait ça “planification alternative” thing with kids […]
