Focus on Five: Birthdays

Birthdays are an important part of students’ lives and most of our students will celebrate their birthday during the school year. This year, I did a mini-unit on birthdays to […]
Focus on Five: Setting Up Technology

Ever since at-home learning, incorporating technology in my classroom has been vital. I used to feel so guilty putting students on the computer, however, the more we can teach students […]
Focus on Five: Incorporating AAC

I currently have two students in my classroom trialing AAC devices, and it made me remember trying to incorporate AAC when I first started teaching cluster. Coming from a general […]
Focus on Five: Giving Students Feedback

Sometimes, towards the end of the school year, student behaviors can increase. Maybe bad habits have formed, students know the end of the year is close or maybe even they […]
Focus on Five: Teaching Conversation Skills

Teaching conversation skills is an important life skill that helps students learn to communicate and build social relationships. We often forget that we indirectly learned conversation skills growing up, however, […]