
Teaching Social Skills with Hangman: A day in the life of a special education teacher.
I want to give you a little taste of what it is like to be a special education teacher. I was having a really big problem in my resource classroom. My students were just simply not getting along (to put it nicely). My students always on each other’s cases. It could start with the smallest thing. If one student was absent-mindedly tapping their pencil, another would tell them to knock it off. Then the first student would point out "you can't t tell me what to do". This would q

Three reasons your kid isn’t doing homework (and what to do about it).
Does getting homework completed ever feel like an epic battle? Or maybe it just takes a very long time for your child to get started. Here's some tips to turn it around so that your after-school time can be a bit more stress-free. 1) They’re “lazy” I prefer to call it undisciplined. You might have to remind a child 10 times a night to do their homework. They may lie and say it’s already done. They may pretend to do work but are really just playing on their phone the whole tim