teaching
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Creating a Calm Classroom: Morning Meetings for Special Education (Teacher Tip Thursday)
The author describes using calming morning meetings with special education middle schoolers to address anxiety and enhance readiness for learning. These meetings adapt yearly based on student needs. Continue reading
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Morning Meetings
Read about morning meetings on my teaching blog through this link. Continue reading
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Daily Phonics
I’ve changed how I teach reading foundational skills to my students. I use a combination of Reading Horizons, the science of reading, and their IEP goals. Let’s walk through how I teach foundational skills during small group instruction: What is… Continue reading
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The most tragic moment of my teaching career
The original post I wrote about this tragedy. June 2009 – Two events occurred in my teaching career. One event made me proud while the other broke my heart into a million pieces. One of my students from my first… Continue reading
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Sight Word Intervention – Part 1
This school year I had a fifth grade student who had sight word recognition as one of her goals. Specifically she was to identify fourth grade sight words. So where did I find a list of sight words that she could… Continue reading
