Work boxes special education life skills

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Task Boxes are important to practice mastered skills, work independently, and gain life skills to be successful in their special education curriculum!

Little Miss Kimberly Ann: "Put in" task boxes. Love these, so simple!

Listen to this Special Ed Podcast with 15 great ideas for Functional Centers for students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism in High School. Read more and subscribe today!

Browse over 520 educational resources created by Play Based Fun in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

You know that saying: "There's a lesson to be learned in everything.", well, it's true! If you're a teacher, there are many tedious little tasks you do on a daily basis that students can help with while learning job skills!

Assembly work tasks for workboxes and independent work systems--great for TEACCH systems and structured teaching. Part of Workbasket Wednesday's linkup of posts.

From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!

You need vocational activities in your classroom. You also want them to be meaningful and actually teach new skills. But do your students somehow end up sorting the same 2 or 3 items over and over? Yikes. Here are a few quick ideas for more and easy ways

TEACCH is a very systematic system used to set up a classroom for student’s with Autism. There is so much research supporting the use of TEACCH in the classroom. I have adapted the TEACCH system into my classroom and altered it to fit my student’s needs. I have an intricate system of Task...

Looking for quick and easy diy task boxes for special education and life skills students? This quick video tutorial (or blog post) will walk you through a great task that is easy to make with materials you have as well as functional and meaningful for your life skills students. It's great for teaching measurement of dry ingredients for cooking as well as for practicing those skills at independent work stations. Plus it's easy to switch it up to keep it fresh for the students. Check it out…

FREEBIES GET YOUR STARTER PACK FOR INDEPENDENT STATIONS GRAB YOUR 4 FREE TASK BOXES GET THIS FREE ADAPTED BOOK UNIT FREE HANDWASHING mini UNIT 4 FREE Errorless File Folder Games 4 FREE Errorless Task Boxes FREE adapted book unit FREE Adapted Book Unit: A Trip to the Zoo TweetShareSharePin8383 Shares

Math Centers for special education. This work task practices patterns and sequencing, color identification, following directions and/or the order of a task, fine motor skills, hand dominance, grip, hand-eye coordination, and more. Learn more at Mrs. D's Corner.

In my very first self-contained classroom, I was lucky enough to have an instructional kitchen attached to my classroom. Instead of only utilizing that space on "Fun Fridays" for cooking, we decided to use the space to teach our students some basic functional life skills. Daily Living Skills It can never be too early to

Do you use task boxes in your special education classroom? If you don’t, check out this blog post for 8 ways to use task boxes for special education. You can use task boxes for one on one instruction, classroom centers or stations, with early finishers, with morning work and much more. There are so many benefits to including this special education activity into your lesson plans. Use these task boxes during independent work stations or homework today!

Are you struggling trying to find functional life skills curriculum in your special education classroom? Read on to learn more...

It’s been a while since I linked up for Workbasket Wednesday, but I finally snapped some pictures of my Workbaskets and just had to share them with you all! Check out these adorable Back to School tasks with a focus on fine motor skills! This task has been a classroom favorite. Students use the ... Read More about Workbasket Wednesday!

Looking for quick and easy diy task boxes for special education and life skills students? This quick video tutorial (or blog post) will walk you through a great task that is easy to make with materials you have as well as functional and meaningful for your life skills students. It's great for teaching measurement of dry ingredients for cooking as well as for practicing those skills at independent work stations. Plus it's easy to switch it up to keep it fresh for the students. Check it out…

REAL pictures task boxes to support increased engagement and real life application. Great tool for targeting vocational skills. CBI | Life Skills | Vocational Education | Special Education | Job Skills

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.