Work boxes

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?…

Are your students needing to build their fine motor muscles? Learn how using fine motor task boxes can help.

There is a reason behind every component of a independent work system. Do you know the 4 questions each work system should answer? Click through to find out.

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!

I could never say enough positive things about using a work box system in the classroom-- for any child. I've used them with typically developing peers in the classroom as well and it's an amazing way to in-bed practice and skill maintenance, all while working on attending to a task as well. Over the summer I did a whole post on how I structure this system in my classroom. You can check it out {here}. But one thing I've never done is actually post photos of the activities I have in my boxes…

Do you want to try task boxes, but think your students are too high for them? They aren’t! I find it easier to do higher level academics in task boxes than coming up with new ways to practice lower level skills such as “put in”. This post may include affiliate links. First, let’s talk about […]

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You know that saying: "There's a lesson to be learned in everything.", well, it's true! If you're a teacher, there are many tedious little tasks you do on a daily basis that students can help with while learning job skills!

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Do you use task boxes in your special education classroom? If you don’t, check out this blog post for 8 ways to use task boxes for special education. You can use task boxes for one on one instruction, classroom centers or stations, with early finishers, with morning work and much more. There are so many benefits to including this special education activity into your lesson plans. Use these task boxes during independent work stations or homework today!

Looking for hands-on & interactive task boxes for kindergarten that builds independence, cooperation, fine motor, and more? Absolutely!

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I was happy with how I had our task boxes/ independent work activities organized (you can see the post and pictures here), but it just wasn't giving us enough space. We would often have activities and work stacked on top of the cabinet and it was so visually distracting! Check out the binders we decided to make to organize the tasks by topics! We hole-punched most of the tasks and put them directly into the binders. We put the tasks that couldn't be hole-punched into large ziplock bags…

This easy office work task box is great for students who need to practice vocational tasks. Grab the video tutorial and tips in the post.

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…

TEACCH is a very systematic system used to set up a classroom for student’s with Autism. There is so much research supporting the use of TEACCH in the classroom. I have adapted the TEACCH system into my classroom and altered it to fit my student’s needs. I have an intricate system of Task...

File Folder Heaven - Printable, Hands-On Fun with File Folder Games Big Box Of Life Skills Tasks - This "Big Box" of Work Tasks: Life Skills Edition is packed full of work tasks to fill task boxes, centers, and work stations. These work tasks can also be used in small group activities. There are 20 work tasks in this set that focus on life skills and include options for

Setting up structured work systems (TEACCH) are a staple in many autism classrooms. Here are 10 tips to get your started on setting up and using them.

Free pom pom task boxes for a special education classroom. Three different tasks are included using the same material, Pom Pom's!

Task Boxes are important to practice mastered skills, work independently, and gain life skills to be successful in their special education curriculum!