Hi! This is similar to my system. I’m working on keeping my work at work. I want to start planning at least a week in advance. My county uses the Unique Learning System and it helps reduce my prep. I would recommend saving resources from years and months past and saving them for student work rotations. This reduces my prep time and it has given me more time to plan social-emotional lessons for functional skills related to my students’ IEPs. I have also dedicated a day for printing and organizing my prep, this means I print and copy all at once to reduce my copy room trips. I am having more time for collaboration and weekend relaxation. It’s really hard, but I am improving my work life balance.
You are fabulous! I’ve been immersing myself in your videos, as a seasoned educator. Good stuff! Would love to see how you organize all the printed materials...weekly, monthly, digitally. Like an in depth look at how your system works! Keep rocking the SpEd world!
Love your videos. Thinking about either going for the SPED teacher certification K-12 (I already have Prek teaching certification) OR getting into a program to become a BCBA. It has been hard to decide, because I love teaching. Let's see...
Good evening! I love your videos! Could you recommend a great SPED blog/vlog for those teaching grades 3-5...that would be super helpful for new teachers to SPED 3-5?
Hi Braelan - love your videos, thank you. Since the summer, they are really helping me in my first year in a self-contained room. I am going to use your video guidance to help me in my professional development plan I am creating with my mentor! I am creating the box of folders from your video and will have for next week to help me with my academics and plans/boundaries too. What I am wondering about is more organization of paperwork and activities after* students use them. I am currently storing student work in 1" binders (small I know) and want to move some to online platforms where they can all see and share ex. fresh grade. We only just got desktops (3) and have no ipads/tablets as they were stolen and not being replaced anytime soon :( at least we got desktops! Also for your info, I have 5 students *2 at home and all are high school age but their literacy/numeracy levels are k and pre-k. All are non verbal. Anyway - just more insight into how you organize/help students in your primary class organize work once it comes out of that box/folders/once they have done it. I have only thought of the binder I can look through for ieps/reporting and online spaces and I'm sure there are more creative and organized ways to store completed student work or work in progress. Thank you - Kim (Surrey, BC, Canada)
Haha, we are similar about going to target. I am a new special ed teacher. Starting to get my life together. I have the same problem of not utilizing my time well and then I get interrupted alot. It's so challenging when I have some distance kids. I feel like I cant adequately know their skills. Are you a resource teacher? How do you it when kids come in and out of your room?
I’m not resource. I teach self-contained. But similar because my kids come in and out of my room for certain things. I don’t mind it, we just work around their schedules
I need your help in that. I bring work home like every day. My work never finishes. I don’t have weekends. I need help managing my time. I find myself constantly work. Remote teaching has made it worse. Please help.
