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Our Method

SpecialEdSimplified uses a method that every teacher is familiar with and uses on an everyday basis – scaffolding. Scaffolding provides maximum support when concepts and skills are first introduced to students. These supports are then gradually removed as students develop autonomous learning strategies. Teachers help the students to master concepts by providing support through outlines, storyboards, pictures, key questions, modified texts, etc. All materials created and designed by SpecialEdSimplified use Symbolstix symbols for maximum support and continuity.  

SpecialEdSimplified also uses differentiated instruction. We provide students with different ways to acquire a skill or content. Our fully developed teaching materials enable all students to learn effectively regardless of their ability level. In order to accommodate all students, our curriculum is designed in two different dimensions – A and B.

Dimension A

Student uses verbal or written words, signs, Braille, or language-based augmentative systems to request, initiate, and respond to questions, describe things or events, and express refusal. The student uses intentional communication, but not at a symbolic language level: Student uses understandable communication through such modes as gestures, pictures, objects/textures, points, etc. to clearly express a variety of intentions.

Dimension B
Student communicates primarily through cries, facial expressions, change in muscle tone but no clear use of objects/textures, regularized gestures, pictures, signs, etc. to communicate. The student alerts to sensory input from another person but requires actual physical assistance to follow simple directions

All units are designed in a similar manner to provide the teacher with a simple and transparent outline to cover the common core content activities step-by-step.

Lesson # Activity
1 Pretest/Posttest
2 Introduction
3 Application 1
4 Application 2
5 Application 3
6 Application 4 or Review
7 Review or Postest
8 Pretest/Posttest

The pre/post test of every unit is the same in order to measure student progress and growth accurately. It is suggested to administer the posttest three days in a row in order to eliminate the chance of a student having a “bad” day.

To make the curriculum more meaningful to the student body, SpecialEdSimplified tries to incorporate student friendly real life examples and applications. The more a student is able to identify and transfer the knowledge learned to his respectively her own life, the higher the chances that the student will understand and retain the content learned.

Testimonials

Ashley Crowe
Ashley CrowePowell County Middle School
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I am beyond grateful to have materials from SpecialEd Simplified! The lessons are broken down and accessible for all of my students. It is much easier to focus on delivering meaningful instruction when I don’t have to worry about developing the lessons myself.
Kelly Gruneisen
Kelly GruneisenMcNabb Middle School
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SpecialEdSimplified has been a lifesaver! Their Alternate Assessment products are aligned to the standards with multiple formats to allow access for all students. Implementing their products in my classroom has kept me from needing to reinvent the wheel and allowed me to focus on instruction and the needs of my students.
Delores Perkins
Delores PerkinsHCH, Special Education
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The curriculum is a time saver for busy teachers. The curriculum gives me a place to start instruction, and I don’t have to put in hours searching for picture symbols or coming up with my own ideas from scratch.
Margaret Marotta
Margaret MarottaWilliamson County Schools, TN
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SpecialEdSimplified has been an invaluable tool in my special education classroom. Teaching students on alternate assessments and paths to graduation is a constant struggle due to the shortage of quality materials and texts. SpecialEdSimplified provides quality materials that align with the general education curriculum and help prepare students for assessments. Get it!!! Now!! Make your life easier and your students’ learning better.
Blaker Render
Blaker RenderCaverna County, KY
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I teach a wide variety of grades.  I'm in a small school that has middle and high schools combined.  I teach 6 grades.  So, having pre-made materials that I could print and sort by student made it easy for me to stay organized while working with multiple students on multiple grade levels, ability levels, and subjects all at the same time.  This same binder system also eliminated the need for substitute lesson plan preps as my paraprofessional and the sub were able to easily see where each student was at that moment and continue instruction.
Holly Wells
Holly WellsCamargo Elementary School
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Trying to teach standards to students with significant cognitive, communication, fine motor, gross motor, and social skills deficits is like trying to catch a wild muddy hog! Thankfully SpecialEdSimplified has done exactly what their name says! Taken abstract standards and turned them into accessible and simplified standards for my students. SpecialEdSimplified not only simplified the standards but also my lesson plans!
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