![]() My student then chooses which activity to complete first by pointing, looking, or pushing a big mack switch with their desired choice. I always use black or yellow strips so that my students can see the two choices presented regardless of visual impairments. Student Mini Schedule ready to go! I use a black background and put their initials on the back. We return to the table and I show the student their mini schedule. The student, if possible, carries them on their lap. I take a student to the task box shelf and we get two boxes. My students have mobility restrictions and are wheelchair users, so we do things a little differently. They would look at their mini schedule, choose an icon, match it to the box, and then bring it back to the table. Traditionally you would instruct your students to use the system completely independently. I make sure to use them whenever possible! Using Task Boxes in a Multiple Disabilities Classroom These were already in my classroom when I got here, tucked away in the back of a cabinet. This is a tactile book working on the concepts of open and closed. ![]() This is great for working on communication and comprehension. I show them the animal and ask them if it hibernates with the yes/no cards. This is a task card set adapted for my students. ![]() With my students we use these when working on motor skills. These tasks are great when students are learning pre-requisite skills. 2$ for colored silverware and 2$ for the bags of bathtub frogs. Even put in tasks and matching tasks can be used in a task box system.This is a dollar tree win! These are put in tasks that I made from dollar tree. If you think your students have not mastered any skills yet, THEY CAN. My students learn this station from TOP to BOTTOM in a week as it is one of this first things I teach! You may want to keep a log with each students name and what boxes they are able to complete during independent work time, so tougher boxes are not mistakenly given to students! It is so important to stay consistent in this station. It is so important that staff knows that all of the boxes on the students schedule are MASTERED SKILLS. ![]() I just want to reiterate this one more time. We ignore all speaking out behavior and only respond when the student is appropriate! Practicing this every day will really help the skill carry over across settings! They raise their hands for questions, and to let us know they are all done, and to pick a reward. This is a great place to integrate those expected classroom behaviors, because they are working so independently! I use this spot to teach hand raising behavior, a skill that is often lost in the small setting of a substantially separate classroom. I have a few students that are trying to generalize behaviors to the general education classroom during inclusion time. Sure your kid can complete their daily schedule by April in the school year, but can they generalize that skill to workboxes? Here is the perfect spot to practice! Students follow their schedule and match the card to the box!Ĭheck out how I make my own workboxes HERE! This center is a great spot in your classroom to generalize schedule following. I separate my bins by type of label as you can see below! This helps students know what they are working on, and where to put it away! Yes, you can change up materials, use new seasonal materials ( Target dollar section erasers!), use materials the child is interested in to keep them engaged, and switch from coins to clothespins, but do NOT introduce new skills in this setting! It is a big cause for behavior, it will take staff to run it, the students will not be as confident and engaged, and they most definitely will not be independent. All the skills have been mastered and practiced independently for quite some time before they make it into the workbox. I get this question a lot, “How do you introduce a new skill to the workboxes” and I just want to clarify- there are NO new skills in my workboxes. The skill should be a skill that is already mastered and independent, otherwise it does not work as an independent work station. I literally could not live without this center in my classroom, especially at times when we are understaffed! Read on to find out how I use my structured work system in my classroom and be sure to catch our BLAB at the end for more info!įirst things first, this center in your classroom teaches INDEPENDENCE not the SKILL. It teaches so much more than the skill, keeps kids engaged, builds independence, teaches schedule following, generalizes matching skills, and helps to teach classroom behavior! Structured work systems are HUGE in Autism classrooms and classrooms for students with all types of disabilities.
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