Special Needs

Inform yourself about curriculum strategies and classroom management for students with different learning needs and abilities. We have resources on everything you need to know about teaching special needs students effectively. You'll find information for teaching students across the Autism spectrum, as well as for teaching gifted students. We'll help you figure out ways to create an inclusive classroom, adapt and supplement your classroom materials, make assessment accommodations, and provide you with other useful tips.

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Printables

Choose from our list of printables to help you with special needs students. Includes charts to track behavior management, planning for diverse students, accommodations checklist and for IEPs, and adaptations to help with disabled students.

Classroom Management & Discipline

Our collection of Classroom Management and Discipline resources will help new teachers as well as veteran teachers. Includes references with guidance for managing disruptive behavior, characteristics of effective behavior managers, and much more.

Assessment Accommodation

With these resources, you will be guided through principles of assessment accommodation and provided a checklist, as well as preparing for IEPs, designing and implementing portfolio assessments, and more.

Resources for English-Language Learners

Guidelines and resources for teaching English Language Learners and insuring they are involved in classroom activities are provided to help, not only the new teacher, but the veteran teacher as well.

Behavior Modification

Teachers are provided resources and suggestions for modifying behavior when needed and to help with various classroom and social situations.

Educational Technology

Adaptations and suggestions are provided to teachers concerning the use of different educational technology tools to assist students or as assessment accommodation tools.

Gifted Students

Tips for teachers of gifted students in a regular classroom who need differentiation are provided, as well as a composite list of typical characteristics to identify and teach disabled/gifted students.

ADD/ADHD Resources

Browse through our extensive list of resources on ADD/ADHD to find what you need. Topics included are suggestions for modifications, criteria to help identify ADD or ADHD students and suggestions to provide them with educational support, planning differentiated lessons, and much more.

Autism & Asperger's Resources

Use our resources to choose the best approach for teaching students with Autism or Asperger's in your classroom. Resources include matching social interaction to the needs of your students, peer tutoring, and direct skill instruction.

Learning & Developmental Disabilities

Various techniques, tips, and suggestions for teaching emotionally and behaviorally challenged students are included in these resources, such as, using stories about children with disabilities to teach others, and proactive tips and effective techniques in your classroom.

Resources for Mental Health & Wellness

Help students with disabilities, as well as those without disabilities, prepare for and cope with natural or man-made disasters, and the grief that could come as a result with these resources.

Resources for Reading & Language Arts

Choose from these resources to extend your students' learning. Includes activities to improve reading skills, principles to help make reading adaptations in an inclusive classroom, and more.

Mathematics Resources

Classroom atmosphere and time management are critical aspects of teaching. These resources include ways to manage time effectively and to promote a positive disposition in students towards math, as well as ways to adapt the math curriculum for special needs students.

Science Resources

Use these resources to teach students about those without vision and the Seeing Eye Dogs who help them. Students will practice writing skills such as writing from another's perspective.

Seeing Eye Dogs for the Blind

Social Studies

Our collections of resources will help enhance your teaching strategies by having students read, learn, and ultimately write a story about the Great Wall of China and more.

Resources for Handicapped Students

Help socially competent and normally hearing students interact with autistic or deaf students in the classroom and social settings with these resources and guidelines.

Teaching Methodology

New teachers and veteran teachers alike will enjoy these resources. Includes information about how an inclusion classroom works, strategies to help you teach effectively, and information on how collaboration between general education and special education teachers is vital.