Task boxes for middle school special education

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Do you use task boxes in your special education classroom? If you don’t, check out this blog post for 8 ways to use task boxes for special education. You can use task boxes for one on one instruction, classroom centers or stations, with early finishers, with morning work and much more. There are so many benefits to including this special education activity into your lesson plans. Use these task boxes during independent work stations or homework today!

Learn how to set up a vocational skills classroom or lab for your special needs students. This life skills classroom tour will give you ideas to incorporate vocational skills areas into your classroom. Each area of our life skills lab is designed to help students practice vocational skills, communication skills, independent living skills, and social skills. You’ll also find ideas for organizing adapted books, task cards and work bins and setting up interactive bulletin boards and word walls

Do you include errorless learning in your elementary special education classroom? For classroom ideas check out my 5 errorless learning activities. Errorless learning for special education is important to help eliminate students' frustration and increase independence. This is a great special education activity to include in your independent work stations. A couple of these classroom activities include errorless task boxes, errorless file folder games, and errorless boom cards.

As special education teachers, it can be so difficult to find quality resources for our middle school and high school classrooms. These work tasks for special education are age appropriate and perfect for your students with disabilities! They use real photos or realistic clip art, so they are perfect for older students who are working on lower grade level skills. You can read more about them in this post! #sped #taskboxes #independentwork #iteachsped #workstation #autismclassroom

Learn how to set up a task box system for any special education class. Great for any TEACCH program! #specialeducation #taskboxes

Do you want to try task boxes, but think your students are too high for them? They aren’t! I find it easier to do higher level academics in task boxes than coming up with new ways to practice lower level skills such as “put in”. This post may include affiliate links. First, let’s talk about […]

Are you in the middle of prepping special education materials to be ready when you head back to school? Getting everything ready for your special education students can be overwhelming but here are four tips for how to organize your classroom and student materials. Using a 3 drawer work station for your student independent work area allows students to work on file folders and work boxes. Keep student visuals and student schedule handy. Have fine motor activities ready to go. Learn more now!

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Looking for some fresh ideas for your special education classroom? One of my key strategies for individualizing instruction is through work boxes. This post includes strategies for creating and using work boxes, and some resources that work well for work boxes in my classroom. These work box strategies work well for elementary age students, but could also be a good homeschooling option or great ideas for parents who work on educational strategies with their own kids.