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10 IEP Tip Sheets to Pin, Tweet, and Share At the Inclusion Lab, we love giving teachers and parents practical inclusive education tips in an easy-to-share format, and we’ve found that IEP tip sheets are some of our most-shared resources. So today we wanted to do a roundup of 10 of our best IEP tip sheets, adapted from Brookes books and Inclusion Lab posts. (We’ve been sharing these on Twitter, but some of them you may have missed.) Here are 10 IEP favorites in one convenient post, ready to pin, share, and tweet as you wish! 1. Some tips to help you prepare in the month leading up to the meeting…

The Inspirational Teacher Series – Nicole Eredics We have started a weekly feature on Special Education Advisor called the “Inspirational Teacher Series“. Our goal is to help SEA readers understand the hard work and dedication educators put forth every day. We also want to highlight the positive experiences of educating our students with a disability. Today is our very first installment of the Inspirational Teacher Series and I couldn’t think of a better person to start with than inclusion specialist, Nicole Eredics. 1. What is your name?

Top 20 Must-Have Educational iPhone & iPad Apps Used By Real Teachers in the Classroom - iPhone app article - Shara Karasic With the advent of the 2011/2012 school year, teachers who have access to mobile technology are scrambling to find the best education apps for the iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone. Educators use apps for everything from communicating with students to inspiring creativity to dissecting virtual frogs. Luckily, we have lots of educators (including Apple Distinguished Educators) on Appolicious who share their lists of the best education apps for elementary, middle school, junior high, and high school. These are the education apps most listed by educators on Appolicious. 1. 3D Brain (iPad, iPhone. Free)

Learning Disabilities in Children: Symptoms, Types, and Testing What are learning disabilities? Learning disabilities, or learning disorders, are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. What Is Curriculum-Based Measurement And What Does It Mean to My Child? by Kathleen McLane Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) is a method teachers use to find out how students are progressing in basic academic areas such as math, reading, writing, and spelling. CBM can be helpful to parents because it provides current, week-by-week information on the progress their children are making. When your child’s teacher uses CBM, he or she finds out how well your child is progressing in learning the content for the academic year. Choice stories in Google Slides: How to + ideas for class - Ditch That Textbook You come to the foot of a mountain and notice a cave. If you want to enter the cave, turn to page 56. If you want to continue up the mountain, turn to page 84.

Centers: Effective Structures for Differentiation Photo by Woodley Wonder Works This article is written by Katie Haydon, founder of Ignite Creative Learning Studio. Learn more about Ignite at IgniteCreativeLearning.com or the Ignite Facebook page. Do you use centers in your primary classroom? If yes, you love them and can’t imagine life without them. If no, you can’t imagine how you could possibly trust your 30 to 35 students to work independently, nor can you figure out where you’d get the time to set them up.

Quick List: iPad Resources For The Classroom One question that comes into my inbox or on Twitter a lot lately is one dealing with iPads in the Classroom. Many schools a all over are investing in iPads in the Classroom and educators want to know how to use them effectively, apps to consider and more. In keeping with the "My Favorite Resources" theme (last week I listed my favorite resources for talking about Twitter) here are my go-to resources when people ask me about iPads in the Classroom. iPads For Education While this site comes courtesy of the Department Of Education in Victoria Australia, there is lots of information that can cross the Pacific that you can use in your classroom.

New ‘Dyslexie’ font helps dyslexics read better  AFP/ Those in a study of the font say it improves reading accuracy. A graphic designer from the Netherlands, Christian Boer, has developed a new font to aid his dyslexia. The font, called Dyslexie, isn’t the first of its kind, but according to Scientific American in an article published Wednesday, “it has received much fanfare from sufferers.” Boer first designing his font in 2008 while studying at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and in 2010 a fellow student conducted an independent study on the font as part of a master s thesis project.

Delaware County Intermediate Unit {*style:<b><i>Building a Healthier Lifestyle? Put the Big Rocks In First! </i></b>*} DL #20: Online Inclusive Education: Guidelines and Considerations for Planning Virtual Lessons Given the new reality for learning in public schools this fall, planning for online instruction is essential. Planning for instruction is an ongoing part of every teacher’s responsibilities, but it is particularly challenging when also navigating how to maintain continuity within inclusive classrooms from face-to-face classes to online learning. What principles of best-practice in face-to-face instruction transfer over to distance learning and what are the principles of best-practice for online instruction? Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a means for planning, then implementing, online instruction. UDL, already familiar to many educators, is a means for both general education and special education teachers to promote thoughtful planning with intentionality for engagement, representation, and action/expression.

Classroom Strategies For Inclusion Of Students With Communication And Learning Disorders ContentIntroductionAbout Communications and Learning DisordersParental Suggestions to Give to TeachersIntroduction Teachers in typical classrooms who are faced with students in their classroom who have ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), SLD (Specific Learning Disability) and/or High Functioning Autistic Spectrum often experience the following feelings. * at a loss for what to do * wanting to pull hair out * overwhelmed * befuddled, confused and dismayed. Every trick of the academic trade teacher have used in the past to contain and direct typical students seem not to work with these students with Communications and Learning Disorders.

iPads in the Classroom I've never worked on a Mac. I don't even own an iPhone. But one night four months ago, I borrowed an iPad from our Technology Department to see what all the fuss was about. As a baseball coach and sponsor of our school's broadcasting club, I thought the iPad might be useful for video analysis and editing. And it is.