Classroom Tools

This website, Do 2 Learn, provides games and activities for students to learn about facial expressions, guidelines for safety, word pairing, and many more.  As students are becoming more and more familiar and reliant on technology, our classrooms need to adapt by being more tech-friendly.  Good teachers use tools that students are familiar with and these days, prefer.  Working on the internet is fun for students and a good teacher will use this to engage their kids and make them want to learn.  As a special educator, this website lets kids play games that teach real skills like reading emotions on people's faces, a skill that a disability may make difficult for them.

Another website, Diigo, allows for teachers to post links for students to limit their internet searching and provide credible sources for students to research or find activities related to their classes.  In terms of special education students, this website allows us to post modified curriculum or reading that will be easily accessible with tutors or at home.  Their parents can use this website to monitor their child's learning experience and current curriculum.  Besides allowing for accessible use in and outside of class, good teachers will use this site to tighten the use of the internet to only legitimate sources.

A video available on YouTube, Intro to Special Education, is informative for parents on how special education works and gives an introduction to a lot of the important terms that they will hear throughout the process.  A lot of parents are so overwhelmed when they discover their child needs special education that they do not read the information given to them and they avoid it because of their fear.  This video makes the information easy to digest and understand.  Once parents know what they are dealing with, they can be a better support for their students and help them in attaining the best possible education.  We hope that schools have the students best interest in mind, but an informed parent is always the best asset for a student.

Special education students need to meet assessments in academics, organization, and social behavior.  These links provide academic resources, games in social skills and safety, and help organize links and information for students and parents.