Special Needs – Teacher Resources

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.

• Daily Point Chart
• Weekly Point Chart
• Helen Keller
• Effective Accommodations for IEPs
• Accommodations Checklist
• Structuring Lessons for Diverse Learners -- Planning Pyramid
• Making Adaptations for Disabled Students
• More Special Needs Printables

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.

• Teaching Methods
• Adaptations and Modifications for Students with Special Needs
• Positive Descriptions of Student Behavior
• How to Manage Disruptive Behavior in Inclusive Classrooms
• What Teachers and Parents Should Know About Ritalin
• Characteristics of Effective Behavior Managers
• Keys to Successful Inclusion
• More Classroom Management & Discipline Resources

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.

• Introduction to Portfolios
• Types of Assessment Accommodation
• Using Multiple Intelligences in Testing & Assessment
• Assessment & Accommodation
• Preparing for an IEP
• Accommodations Checklist
• Judicious Review
• More Assessment Accommodation Resources

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.

• What Is Comprehensible Input?
• The Unique Challenges of Teaching English-Language Learners
• Teaching English-Language Learners with Learning Difficulties
• English-Language Learners
• Key Instructional Principles to Use with English-Language Learners
• Bilingual Special Education
• Increasing Meaningful Access Through Comprehensible Input
• More Classroom Management & Discipline Resources

Behavior Modification

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

• Considerations for Social Interaction with Autistic Students
• Socially Inappropriate Behaviors

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.

• Assistive Technology for Students with Mild Disabilities
• Response: Math Tools
• Response: Technology

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.

• Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a Mixed-Ability Classroom
• Gifted but Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox
• The Crossover Profile

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.

• Modifying Instruction: Teaching Students with ADD
• Planning for Success: Teaching Students with ADD
• ADD/ADHD Resources for Teachers
• Teaching Children with ADD/ADHD
• What Can Teachers Do To Help a Child with AD/HD?
• Increasing Attention
• Understanding the Purpose of School-Based Referral: ADD/ADHD
• Managing the Classroom: Teaching Students with ADD
• Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Discussion Guide
• Frequently Asked Questions on ADD/ADHD
• Six Tips for Dealing with ADD Students
• A Teacher's Identification Role: Getting Help for Students with ADD
• ADD and ADHD
• A Parent-Teacher's Guide to ADHD (K-12)
• ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted
• Collecting Educationally Useful Information for Students with ADD
• Formal Assessment: Getting Help for Students with ADD
• Working Together with Families: Teaching Students with ADD
• A Team Effort: Getting Help for Students with ADD
• Planning for Success: Teaching Students with ADD

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.

• Top 9 Things Educators Should Know About Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Overview and Fact Sheet
• Tips for Science Teachers Working with Autistic Students
• UNLOCKing the Problem: A Self-Control Worksheet For Students
• Strategies for Helping Autistic Students with Writing Avoidance
• A Guide to Creating Opportunities for Appropriate Social Behavior
• Facial Expressions and Autism: A Guide for Generalists
• Building Rapport with Autistic Students: Tips for General Educators
• Providing Positive Reinforcement for Autistic Students
• Reading Comprehension Strategies for Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Considerations for Social Interaction with Autistic Students
• Mockingbird Discussion Guide
• Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World Discussion Guide
• Peer Tutoring for Students with Autism
• Promoting Social Development for Students with Autism
• Peer Initiation Strategies for Students with Autism
• Direct Skill Instruction for Students with Autism
• Antecedent Prompting Procedures for Students with Autism
• Al Capone Does My Shirts & Al Capone Shines My Shoes Discussion Guide
• Girls Like Us Discussion Guide

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.

• Children's Books About Disabilities
• Working with Emotionally and Behaviorally Challenged Students
• Proactive Measures for Behavior Management
• Considerations for Social Interaction with Autistic Students
• Scope of the Mathematics Curriculum
• Planning Pyramid for Multi-Level Mathematics Instruction
• Structuring Lessons to Promote Learning from Materials
• More Resources for Students with Learning Disabilities

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.

• Intervention Strategies for Disaster
• Death and the Grief Reaction Process
• Impact of Disaster on Students with Exceptionalities
• Relationship Between Crisis and Special Education
• Impact of Disruption on Students with Exceptionalities
• Impact of Death on Students with Exceptionalities
• Bluefish Classroom Ideas
• Paralympics
• Crisis Intervention Information Centers
• Helpful Hints for Reducing Stress During Test Taking

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.

• Repeated Reading
• Adapting Reading and Math Materials in the Inclusive Classroom
• Learning Disabilities: Glossary of Terms
• SIR RIGHT: A Strategy for Math Problem Solving
• Sensory Imaging
• Summer Reading for Teachers
• Resourcing -- Being a Communicator/Collaborator
• More Reading & Language Arts Resources

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.

• SIR RIGHT: A Strategy for Math Problem Solving
• Mathematical Dispositions
• National Mathematics Standards
• CMP2 for Students with Special Needs
• Math in Today's Schools
• Collaboration in Today's Math Classroom
• Resourcing -- Being a Time Manager
• High-Stakes Testing & Implications for Students with Learning Problems
• Resourcing -- Time Log
• Resourcing -- Time Log Analysis
• Encouraging Students with Learning Problems
• Holding a Fundraiser: Money for a Good Cause

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.

• The IEP Cycle: The General Educator's Role
• Conspicuous Strategies
• From the Great Wall to a Great Inclusive Classroom
• Death and the Grief Reaction Process
• Empowering Diverse Students with Learning Problems
• White Cane Safety Day
• What to Include in an IEP
• More Social Studies Resources

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.

• Peer Initiation Strategies for Students with Autism
• Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing

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.

• Teaching Methods
• Teaching Students with Special Needs
• Collaboration Between General and Special Education Teachers
• Introduction to Portfolios
• Students with Exceptionalities
• Effective Teaching Strategies
• Frequently Asked Questions on Inclusion
• More Teaching Methodology Resources