DEAR SUSAN: In our full-inclusion classroom, my co-teacher and I get the full attention of the students for about 20 minutes at the start of the class. After that, it’s a struggle to keep them engaged.
I can’t believe it’s already February! Before we find ourselves in June (time flies) I’d like to go down memory lane to the best stuff from 2018. Last year was a pretty amazing one for me. I released a new book on Co-teaching and created a related Audio Course on "The HOW of Co-teaching." I was bles [...]
January has flown by in the blink of an eye and now Valentine's Day is just around the corner. I’ve collected the best classroom activities and lesson ideas for your classroom offered by some of the top teaching blogs for February. Enjoy! The Curriculum Corner offers wonderful free Valentine hundred [...]
No matter how hard I try, no matter how much research I do, and no matter how many plans we come up with, I have still been unable to help these students make progress. Are there any uncommon or outside-the-box strategies that could help me motivate students?
Early in my career, I was a special education teacher and a co-teacher who worked within the inclusion model at the secondary school level. I became convinced that EVERY high school classroom needs to begin with RTI (Response To Intervention) Tier One, with differentiated teaching strategies, so that every student can learn.