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How to Set Up Centers in a Special Ed Classroom
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- čas přidán 27. 02. 2023
- Setting up centers as a teacher in a special education classroom can seem daunting. However, Jen's here to tell you it doesn't have to be! In this video, she'll walk you through a few quick and easy tips and tricks to setting up centers - from English-Language Arts, to Math, to Independent Work! Keep it functional, keep it simple, and your learners will be on their way to learning in their classroom centers in no time!
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I love centers! I have a self contained classroom but it’s not specific to autism. I run 4 centers. A smart board center, an iPad center, a task box center, and a sensory learning center. We call them stations. My iPad station is usually seesaw, Unique, or iReady work. My smart board center is usually a game. The task boxes are usually matching visuals with vocabulary or their pertaining function, the sensory station is usually using Playdoh or manipulatives to complete an assignment. I’m trying to set them up more efficiently this year. It’ll be my second year ever teaching and last year everything felt a bit disorganized. This year, prior to going into centers, I’ll spend some time showing the students how to complete each center. All of my centers are differentiated and groups are separated by ability level so differentiation is easier to manage. I know there’s some argument to making groups with different leveled learners, but when I did that last year it was a mess. I struggle to create centers for every subject I teach, so I’ve made centers happen Tuesdays and Thursdays, leaving Mondays and Wednesdays for lesson teaching and Fridays for small groups/IEP focused. I realized last year that I wasn’t collecting enough on-paper data, so much was observational. We’ll see how this year goes. Thanks for this video!
Sounds like you've got a great foundation to build on this year!
I absolutely LOVE this!!! More more more on functional, yet practical centers❤❤❤
Happy to hear this was helpful! Thanks for watching! ❤️
I just found your channel. I love what you're doing!
So great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Thanks, that really made centers doable.
Glad this was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Love it we had this and it worked great with a good amount of aides
Great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Thank you. This is wonderful.
Thanks for watching!
Hi! I just saw your video and have some questions. So you mention that you have 3 centers for ELA, 3 for Math and 3 for independent work.
1. How a lesson plan structure looks like? Do you have one Learning Objective and you mention what students and paras/teachers should do in every center? Do you have exit ticket?
2. For ELA centers how you structure your center? Do you do reading while the paras work on the IEP goals or skills that build up on the reading comprehension goal?
3. Do you have phonics centers separately?
4. You also mention that each center is 4 minutes. What do you do when students finish rotating all 3 centers?
5. What do you do for science and social studies? My class really struggles in the end of the day, i.e. after lunch and recess.
We are a 3th/4th 8:1:1 class with students with severe autism, a very short attention span and a lot of behaviors (screaming, OCD).
1. Each center has a learning objective that we are covering for the week. On years that my students need big skill differentiation, the objectives may change with each group. Exit tickets are not done at the end of centers, rather we are putting into practice what we have learned, and then we will later have an exit ticket after formal lessons.
2. For ELA we largely work on comprehension, letter/sound/blend ID, and sight words. I mix this together, so we always work on ID on Tues/Thurs and comprehension on M/W/F.
3. My learners are mostly around kindergarten/pre-K skills. If they were higher, I'd add a phonics group
4. My centers start at 4 minutes at the start of the year. By now (December) we are up to 10 minutes! We do a whole group reading/math activity when we finish
5. I use TAH's science and social studies curriculum in small groups
If your morning is going well and your afternoon is a bit of a mess, you may want to repeat the same activities from the morning in the afternoon and then slowly swap them out to something similar in structure.
These are amazing tips, as a new teacher I struggled a lot. How do you work with these strategies with LFA kids, please? ❤
Same process!
Another question -how ofen do you switch out the activities in the centers? also, do you have a list of center time activities you work off of?
We switch activities daily unless it's a big hit, then I'll bring it back to the rotation that week. I created a list that I keep of all the activities and how they relate to our curriculum. I pull from a lot of our tasks, too!
How many tracing and matching books do you create for the center?
It depends - I try for one for each student! I've built up quite the collection so that's easy to do. I'd have one for each student in the center if you can swing it!
Awesome ❤
Thanks for watching!
I have a couple question you said you have math language arts centers . So are your para teaching math or English . An when you teach the centers do you use a teacher Manuel or go off the top of your head . Also when do you teach IEP goal do you mind sharing a previous class lesson/ routine . I hope you answer because my question is kinda late for this video
Hi there! I do have paraprofessionals run a center. I typically had at least 2 paras so they cover two centers and I cover a third. Each center has differentiated activities that target each students IEP goals or skills that build up to their goals. There is no teacher manual- I select materials that best fit the students' needs and goals and my paras are instructed on how to implement them!
where do you get those tracing books and the matching books? I love them
Here you go! shop.theautismhelper.com/products/basic-tracing-and-matching-books
What do you do if a child finishes before the timer?
I always have extra activities on hand, ready to go! Simple things like Easy Matching Workbooks!
Here's a link to all of our EMWW! shop.theautismhelper.com/collections/easy-matching-weekly-workbooks
Where did you get the asl signs on the wall?
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Love Your Channel! #fduedtech
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for watching!
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