Functional life skills curriculum

Free Life Skills Worksheets For Highschool Students And Free Life Skills Worksheets For Special Needs Students Pdf

It's surprises me every year how my whole classroom shifts on what they like and what they don't like to do. The last two years, not one student has touched the puzzles on my shelves. This year, it is like the hot ticket activity. I even had to buy a couple extra so there was enough to go around. I remember about three years ago my box of pattern blocks was what everyone wanted to play with. The last couple years no one seems to care for them at all. Last week a co-worker of mine bought a…

Here is a worksheet on taxes. We live in California so I used the taxes that apply to us. I also used a minimum amount of income tax. T...

Since my students are adults, I think it is important for them to learn to call in their own absences instead of mom or dad. Here is a quick worksheet on calling in an absence. We have a practice telephone in class that we will use to role play after we do the worksheet. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Life-Skills-Calling-in-Sick-247478

Life skills students can work on at home

Read this blog post about my teacher created functional life skills curriculum. Designed for high school and transition special education students, the lessons are consistent, engaging, and creative. Independent living, money, vocational, restaurant, cooking and kitchen, and technology skills, recreation leisure, and more! The curriculum bundle covers functional life skills and activities of daily living and includes lesson units with notes, activities, review, task cards, test, and…

Money, money, money, money, monnnnnney... So most of my students probably won't have to pay bills, but who knows maybe some of them will. Even if they never pay a bill in their life I figure it's good to know what's going on - because someone in their life is paying for all the things they have. So with this activity, I expect that my students will know what a bill is, the things we have to pay for (electricity, phones, internet, etc), and that money is need to pay for things - all good…

My students all arrive at different times in the morning, which makes it very difficult to teach a class before their breakfast is served. For the past 2 year I have been having the students write a morning message, since it can be done in their own time as they arrive. It contains the date, the weather, what we plan to do that day and than a note on what we will be doing tomorrow. I am not sure how much my students are really gaining from this, so I have decided to put together morning…

Do you practice life skills in your SPED classroom? If you don't, you should! Let me show you how to set up life skills centers.

Life Skills are the skills that one needs to live and work in a community successfully and independently. This resource provides an evidence-based year-long curriculum. The curriculum is structured and visually based. It breaks down larger skills into manageable steps, embeds assessments, and utilizes data-based decision-making. Level 2 focuses on introducing basic life skills concepts and vocabulary through application and problem-solving.