I had 3 IEPs today, a BEST meeting and then came back to my office to wrap up for the day. I stayed late.
Well, for my brain it was too late. I am literally stuck at work! I opened my car, got in, looked at my key ring and my car key somehow fell off my clip. Instead of problem solving (Hey lady, you UNLOCKED THE CAR, duh!). I get out of the car to go look for it on the ground and lock myself out of my car with ALL my stuff in there.
Luckily the office was open. They gave me a key to my room and let me call my awesome fiance. Who is on his way now...in horrible traffic.
What now? I caught up on the office type stuff (hole punching, putting files away), but I can't do much because everything is on my laptop and all the files I need are in my car.
Now that I have basically run out of things to do, I am going to show you my objective binder! I made this out of a binder I found at a teacher "junk" store called RAFT (more on this later). The binder is from a bank I think because it has VISA symbols on it. It stands up using Velcro that came on it. I am sure you SLPs could figure out a way to make one with a normal binder.
When our principal does evaluations she likes to see that the objective of the lesson is very clear. Well for speech and language students, it is! It's their IEP goals! I like to flip to a generic page in my binder that targets what we are doing that day.
I found the "Today I am", "So that I can:" and "I'll know I've got it when" from pinterest. A gal was using them in a pocket chart format. For me, flipping to a page works much better than trying to find little cards for the pocket chart. I have a page for each area of speech and language, including social skills. I may need to make a teachers pay teachers store for this! What do you all think?
This page has "completing progress reports!" I take data all the time, but I like doing some rotations towards progress report season. I work with one student intensely and check goal progress; while other students are doing floor activities and rotate. I like to remind students of WHY they come to see me and that progress reports show teachers, parents and themselves how much they have learned!
Besides using this objective chart, I use my "help box" (see previous post) to write a schedule of activities on the board. Hope this helps some of you!
