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Wednesday's Weekly Comments

Anybody else curious? on SMD Teacher blog: I have been looking at this curriculum for a while now and am really hoping that someone who has tried it with our population will respond.

Dish drying... on Teaching Learners With Multiple Special Needs blog: Always great to see ways that other people are using switches as you can never have too many ideas for switch use :).

Wednesday's Weekly Comments

"Song of the Day" post on Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: Yet another great post related to remembering that our students are teenaged kids first and foremost :). Love it!

 

I started visiting a new blog called Special Classroom this week.  I always love when I find another teacher who teaches this population as sometimes its a lonely profession in regards to colaboration with others.  I responded to the great classroom pictures posted in the post titled "Classroom Pictures".

Wednesday's Weekly Comments

This week on the blog "The Special Educator's Friend", I responded to a post expressing on opinion on what level of training someone is special educatoin should have.  Given that I have no formal training in special education, I thought I might speak out on this on.  Check it out here: Georgia's Special Education Teacher Preparedness. 

I stumbled upon a new blogger this week as well.  I had to make a post to welcome her and let her know how excited I was to have another person to share ideas with in her opening post titled "Week One" on her brand new blog "Exceptional Students in the Classroom".

Kisses are for Home":  Kate from Teaching Learners With Multiple Special Needs posted a great Boardmaker File to help students come up with alternate ways to express affection due to H1N1 and age appropriateness issues.  Love it!

The math teacher in me is so excited to find this blog:  Math Beyond Numberdome.  Love the challenge that this teacher has taken on as she journeys through trying to teach a small group of grade 7-8 students mathematics.  I had to respond to her very honest post entitled "Broken Promises".

Wednesday's Weekly Comments

Education on a Plate: What an amazing blog to get you thinking about what are best practicees when it comes to teaching!  This week I commented on a great post entitled "Why I Didn't Do Homework".

Teaching Learners With Multiple Special Needs:  The best resource out there for anyone teaching this population!  This week, Kate posted the items that she puts up on her staff bulletin board along with links to them so readers can print them off.  Great stuff and I had to post to tell her.  Check it out here:  "The Staff Bulletin Board".