Teacch tasks for older students

Learn how to set up a task box system for any special education class. Great for any TEACCH program! #specialeducation #taskboxes

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Secondary special education teachers, are you constantly searching for materials that target the skill levels your students are at that are appropriate for their age? Then you need the Work Tasks for Secondary Students bundle. This resource line is perfect for older students that need practice with skills at a lower grade level! Here's a close-up of what's included and some tips to put it to use in your classroom.

Task books are a great way to keep students busy while you're working with other students, during small groups, individual work time, or free time. There are so many different ways to do task books, you can get kids to work on a variety of skills. Most of my task books have kiddos working on literacy skills, writing, and math. Literacy Task Books: Have students match letters to pictures that start with the same letter sounds. Have students match picture symbols to pictures in board books…

From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!

If you teach special education you should be familiar with the "next dollar" method, or "dollar over" strategy. If not, well you should. :) Basically, the student looks at the number before the decimal point, counts out those dollars and then adds one more dollar for the change. Here is a work box that I use with my students for independent practice with the dollar over strategy (I got this wonderful idea from my mentor teacher!). All the materials needed are in this box. (index cards with…

Functional task boxes and independent work ideas

Read to see how this work task resource not only enhances the learning experience for autistic students but also supports a meaningful cause.

Keeping morning meeting age-appropriate for older students can be challenging. Here are 6 ways to incorporate a variety of age-appropriate activities.

This task is good to teach home life skills. Making weekly menus is important to help with grocery lists and learning to make balanced meals. I made a list of several main items and a list of enough vegetables for them to make 7 complete meals (1 main + 2 sides) The student chooses from the list then writes their choices on a copied weekly menu. Next they use the plate visual marked with the day of the week and place the items that they have chosen on the plate, putting a knife, fork, and…