Jobs

The students in my room learn a bit differently than other children.  Doing a typical "basal" program with them is not really effective or helpful.  There are either huge gaps in their learning or they do not retain things long enough to be able to move to the next level of a given skill.  So because of that my kiddos have jobs that they do every day. 

To give you an example of what I mean I am going to put some of my kiddos jobs below.  They do these same jobs every single day until I know they have the skills.  Data is collected on the skill and I go by the 80% rule.  If they get it 80% of the time independent then they can move to the next level of said skill.  Here are a couple of examples

For Math:

Student 1 -

• 1:1 correspondence count to 5 using various objects
• Identify numbers 1 - 5 of a puzzle and put number and number of objects together, counting the objects each time
• Write and name numbers 1 - 5

Student 2

• Adding two picture tiles together then giving answer.
• Reading and following directions with numbers 5 - 15.

The jobs they do are based on their needs.  I have some pictures of a few of the activities I do, including file folder games I use within the classroom setting.

The repetition helps the students and the jobs, once made, are laminated and there for several more years.  It is a lot of work up front but in the end it pays off.  :-)