Functional life skills special education

Need help structuring life skills lessons across grade levels? Our resource on special education life skills curriculum, high school special education classroom setup life skills, elementary special education life skills, and visual schedules makes planning easier. Pin this guide for lesson ideas that grow with your students!

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Task boxes in a special education classroom can be a daunting and expensive task to set up. Save yourself time and money when setting up simple and engaging task boxes for your students from the dollar tree for less than $25! Your students will gain independence and functional life skills while working in the classroom!

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Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Functional money skills are an important aspect to independent living. Practicing functional math skills in the classroom allows your students to learn to identify money, practice using a budget and making financial decisions. Functional math skills allow your students to practice social skills while purchasing an item or making change. Practicing these skills in the special education classroom will also help your students prepare for community based instruction and develop important life…

Life skills students can work on at home

Have you been thinking about starting a job skills program? Job skills activities are great life skills for your special education students. Today, I am sharing 4 tips when starting a life skills program. In order to best help your special education students learn life skills, social skills, and job skills, you want to make sure that you are creating a safe work environment that fosters positive relationships. Learn more now!

Teaching vocabulary in special education is crucial! Teaching monthly vocabulary lessons in special education is a great way to cover important vocabulary. Use new vocabulary words during morning meetings, lunch, and other times throughout the day. Use a word wall in your special education classroom. You can use a functional life skills word wall too. Using file folders to teach vocabulary is another great one. Or having literacy centers and vocabulary games setup are helpful too.

My students all arrive at different times in the morning, which makes it very difficult to teach a class before their breakfast is served. For the past 2 year I have been having the students write a morning message, since it can be done in their own time as they arrive. It contains the date, the weather, what we plan to do that day and than a note on what we will be doing tomorrow. I am not sure how much my students are really gaining from this, so I have decided to put together morning…

Starting a student-run coffee cart can be great, just read these tips and tricks on how to start a coffee cart in your classroom and what you need to succeed...

Find engaging classroom job skills ideas with these easy to set up job prep activities for special education and students with disabilities.

Review of functional life skills curriculum for high school, transition, or middle school students in special education.

5 easy steps to supporting students with disabilities to learn functional money skills. Learn how to teach money skills in special ed.

Over 100 Independent Functioning and Independent Living Life Skills IEP Goals, including ADLs, food prep, shopping, functional reading, and essential life skills.

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

I love using file folders because they are so easy to store and a great way to practice life skills when you are at a desk. Plus, my students always think they are playing games with file folders too.

Free Life Skills File Folder Activities for the independent work station in special education classrooms. Practice life skills for community integration!

Ah, I honestly don't want Valentine's Day to ever come (except for the 50 shades of Grey movie, obvs). But in all serious ya'll, the activities are just too.darn.cute!! In our class, we have a structured story time where I will try very hard to keep my friends' attention through a story. Don't get me