Hi! I am Allison. I am an Intervention Specialist and Certified Autism Specialist with nearly 20 years of experience working with students with autism and low-incidence disabilities.
I taught in an elementary special education classroom where I created countless individualized supports, organizational tools, and differentiated activities for my students before transitioning to my current position on an autism and low-incidence coaching team where I have had the pleasure of meeting and helping teachers in hundreds of classrooms in the Dayton, Ohio area. I am passionate about special education and helping teachers!
Want to know one thing I hated when communicating with parents?
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Hi Reader! Can I let you in on a little secret? I hate communication notebooks for communicating with parents. Like HATE HATE them. I think they are ineffective, time-consuming, and often turn negative. 🙅♀️ 🙅 🙅♂️ Learn more about why I ditched them in my blog post by clicking the button below.
But I am not one to identify a problem and not find a solution! The blog post also gives some effective ways to communicate with parents including my Differentiated Home-School Communication Reports: And this truly is one of my most loved resources! Check out a couple of the 5 Star Reviews 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 If you still aren't convinced to ditch the communication notebook, try out this FREEBIE below in your classroom and let me know what you think. If you love it, you will REALLY love the differentiated options in my Differentiated Home-School Communication Resource! FREEBIE Differentiated Home-School Communication MissAllisonsSpEdSpot.pdf Until next time! |
Hi! I am Allison. I am an Intervention Specialist and Certified Autism Specialist with nearly 20 years of experience working with students with autism and low-incidence disabilities.
I taught in an elementary special education classroom where I created countless individualized supports, organizational tools, and differentiated activities for my students before transitioning to my current position on an autism and low-incidence coaching team where I have had the pleasure of meeting and helping teachers in hundreds of classrooms in the Dayton, Ohio area. I am passionate about special education and helping teachers!
Hi Reader! I always found it easy to find opportunities for the daily practice of literacy skills in my classroom. Name sequencing, sight words, vocabulary, read-alouds... we regularly did it all! 📚 But math was a different story. I found that I often compartmentalized math instruction to single bands (money, time, numeration, etc.) and it was usually during IEP or intervention time. So students were primarily working on skills at their level or related to their goals and did not get the same...
Hi Reader! For several years, I gathered all of my students on the carpet and had them help dictate while I wrote out our morning message during morning meeting. But, I finally realized that this was a waste of time for my classroom of mostly non-readers. Once I was finished with each daily message none of my kids could re-read what I had written and it really was not meaningful at all! Plus, many of them lost focus because they did not understand what I was writing or even what I was asking....
Hi Reader! Can you believe the back to school season is upon us? This was the fastest summer EVER! But I am excited for another year ahead. Some of my favorite activities this time of year include: reading No, David! by David Shannon with my students (they giggle the whole time!) 😆 creating a classroom mission statement with my students 📝 teaching essential school vocabulary with games such as scavenger hunts, vocabulary fishing, BINGO, and board games 🃏 To learn more about what Back to...