It’s a whole lotta work to setup an autism classroom. I think I have permanent blisters on my fingers from cutting laminating. Having an overwhelming amount of rescues is essential in our rooms. Bored students = naughty students. We need to make sure we have enough work tasks that cover the very wide range of skills our student need to work on, enough that our students don’t get bored, enough that our students can generalize skills to new tasks, and enough that our speed demon workers don’t have an unnecessary amount of break time. But that daunting task of creating activities is intimidating to even the most veteran teacher. Here is a simple solution for creating a system to rotate binder of work between similar students!
1. Group students by level and make binders.
Group students together who are of similar level and who are working on similar goals. Make the amount of binders that there are students in the group. For this group, there are 3 students and 3 binders.
2. Assign each student a day with each binder.
The student will only be doing the binder one day a week. This will be great because there is less of a chance for them to get bored and/or memorize the work!
3. Show staff how the binder system works.
Students do the binder on the assigned day. This system is great for a station run by a paraprofessional. Show them how the system works to ensure the students are getting the right binder each day!
Check out all of the great work included in these binders! There is a little bit of everything math & science included in this binder system!
Included in this resources set: Interactive Math Work Book, Time Mega Pack, Basic Skills Vocabulary Unit, and Non-Identical Sorting File Folder Activities.
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Love this! How are you taking data?
I love those block design pages – what file are those in? I have a kiddo that is SUUUUPER fast at completing work, but he seems to take his time on those! Yes!!
These resources are being used for independent work/skill generalization so I any data taken would be on task completion or number of prompts. Something simple! 🙂
They are from the ABLLS Assessment Pack actually but I have been wanting to make a set just of these. I love them! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ABLLS-Resource-Kit-1670632
Oh wow, that would be awesome!!
I have the bundle LA and Math, is this included? I am going to have them printed out soon, but was trying to organize before I do. I am confusing myself with the binder systems.
Yep – this is all included. This is just a way to utilize those resources in a different way!
How do you organize your binders? Are they by your leveled Math and Language Arts Activities? So for example all level 1 Math is in one binder and level 1 language arts in another binder? Or are they mixed? Do the kids work in a rotating binder every day? Then you mention “written” binder work. Is that another leveled binder in which the students write in??
This teacher had Math Level 1 in one binder (actually in multiple binders because it’s such a massive product) and then Math Level 2 in other binders. Students who were all at Level 1 rotated among the different level 1 binders every few days so they were working on the same type of work but not the exact same activities every day. Hope this helps!