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Teaching students to have appropriate behaviors in the classroom is important. Having staff who are strong in their understanding of functions of behavior is crucial to teaching students! I've created a slide presentation that can help with that.  I'm taking advantage of extra time we have during remote learning to help my staff brush up on their knowledge of behaviors.  Here are some sample slides from my presentation:  Get this product here . After you have taught your staff about the functions of behavior, you can quiz them on their knowledge with this quiz. 

Today I begin on an adventure of poop training one of my students.   I will call him A. He is 8 years old and non-verbal. And my class is a severe needs class. This is what led me to embark on this challenge: He is able to make himself pee when he sits on the toilet. He poops regularly after eating—he usually poops twice during the school day, in the morning and then after lunch. He doesn’t like having poop in his diaper. He won’t let anyone know he pooped, but after a few minutes, he will start digging.   He gets fed by G-tube so we have control of the timing of his food and water intake.   He is highly motivated by the iPad. He will do ANYTHING for it. This is the golden ticket. He's also familiar with token boards. My main goal right now is for him to poop in the toilet. Then we can transition him to wearing underwear instead of a diaper which will help him to feel when he’s wet. Baby steps to full potty training. What we’ve been doing with h...

This is my favorite Autism product! It's a book about being safe around water . Do you know that the greatest risk to kids with autism is wandering off and drowning? It's so important to teach water safety! This book is 20% off this weekend and next! (April 19 - 22 and April 26-29)

Here's a new thing I decided to do when planning for this year. Since I have students with such a wide range of abilities, I really want to individualize as much as possible. Duh, obviously! That's the goal, right? But I decided to approach thinking about it differently than I have before: I thought out and wrote up an IDEAL day for each student. What would they work on in the areas of self-help skills, vocational skills, academic skills? What gross and fine motor activities would they engage in? What sensory activities would they do? What are their preferred activities that I want to make sure they get to do when they are finished working? I wrote their IEP goals in red because those are the things I for sure need to get to. The black ink is things that would be awesome for them to have exposure to. The IDEAL scenario. So now, as I look at these charts for each of my 9 students, I can decide how I want to schedule our day. Can I incorporate all of the academic skills i...

More Social-emotional skills! Yay! This actually is really fun for me to teach. Because it's so concrete. After teaching students appropriate things to do with their hands, students can use  this worksheet  to practice what they have learned. They can cut out and paste pictures on the correct side of the T-chart to show whether that activity is showing nice hands or not nice hands. Buy it  here  for $0.95

These  behavior posters  are one of my more popular items on TeachersPayTeachers. There are three basic rules which each have their own poster. On each poster, there are more illustrations so that students know exactly what each of rules looks like in action. Buy this product  here  for $0.99.