Teaching Strategies: What to Do About Those Problem Spinners in the Classroom!
I was a high school teacher during the mini-skateboard (they were officially called “Fingerboards”) craze of the early 2000’s. At the time, I worked with students who had trouble with self-control, focusing, and getting their work done. The day that a mini-skateboard...
Teaching Strategies: How to Help Students Make Good Decisions
Teaching Strategies for Decision Making I started using this problem-solving strategy with students to help them see that there were positive and negative consequences to any solution they presented to a problem they were experiencing. Originally, it was used to help...
Autism & Wandering: Please watch this 60 second PSA
According to AutismSpeaks.Org, nearly half of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) attempt to wander or bolt from a safe, supervised place. More than half of these wandering children go missing – often into dangerous...