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  • Bring a Bear Day Free Editable Invitation

    Originally published: January 15, 2016 This week I finally got this year’s Bring a Bear Class Books put together – about a month after we had the event, actually.  However, they look great, and the Little People are enjoying remembering the day.  We do this once a year when we do our Bear Unit in […]

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  • Increase Preschool Student Engagement During Table Activities in Six Easy Steps

    Recently another preschool special education teacher asked me for suggestions to increase student engagement during table play activities.  Preschool teachers put toys out on tables every day, and putting out things that are interesting to the students is important because interesting toys = interested students.  In turn,  interested students are less likely to display problematic […]

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  • Preschool Special Education Baseline Assessments

    Discovering the Potential in the New School Year with Baseline Assessments I love new beginnings.  As much as I hate to leave the lazy days of summer behind and start working in the classroom again, I am always enamored with the promise that a fresh new school year brings. One of the ways that a […]

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  • Three Important Teaching Priorities for Early Childhood Special Education

    .  Priorities of Early Childhood Special Education Are you an early childhood preschool special education teacher who sometimes struggles with what your priorities should be when teaching your students? You know students’ IEP goals are essential, but what about the other things? What about all the skills that are not included in the IEP goals? […]

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  • Starting Over with the Teaching the Little People Blog

    Welcome to the new Teaching the Little People blog. While my purpose of sharing things I know about early childhood special education here is the same as it has been in the past, this blog itself is brand new. That is because…I lost the old blog. I had been away from posting for several years, […]

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