Hey, hey, hey! Welcome to my blog where I plan on discussing the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly of the world of special education from a teacher’s standpoint. Cultivating Exceptional Minds is aiming to focus on three main topics: Special Education paperwork and organization, Alternate Achievement Standards, and resources and center materials to be used across different ability levels.
Paperwork can be a daunting part of a special education teacher’s job. My goal is to provide my readers with some helpful tools and organizational strategies that help make all the paperwork more manageable and less of a challenge. I also want to be able to assist my readers is collecting and organizing some of the endless amounts of data that have to be taken and assessed throughout the school year.
“Being a special education teacher requires a multitude of differentiated instruction, resources, and centers to be available.”
As a special education teacher, I work with children on varying ability levels. This requires a multitude of differentiated instruction, resources, and centers to be available. This can become overwhelming and stressful at times, especially when you receive a new student in the middle of the year on a differing level. One of goals will be to provide a variety of resources, materials, worksheets, and center activities that can be used at the most simplistic level to more complex levels.
Being a teacher in Sweet Home Alabama, a lot of my materials focus on the Alternate Achievement Standards. These are brand new standards that rolled out this school year. There are products being developed to be used in the upcoming school year.
I’m so excited to start this journey with you all. You can follow Cultivating Exceptional Minds on social media via Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook @cultivatingexceptionalminds.
If you have a moment, leave me a comment and let me know where you are reading from, what you teach, and what you would love to learn a little more about.
Thank you for reading!
Let’s grow together,
CEM
