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Addressing the issue will depend on when they are wandering. If it is between classes or transitioning from one class to another or one period to anot...

Jill Kuzma has a great site dedicated to Social Skills assessment and intervention./span>

A lot depends on the reason the student is failing to turn the form in. If they are just refusing to because they don't want to, there may be little y...

A great way to get students to go to class is to use the "good cop/bad cop" method. Get parents to bring the student to school and then if they won't ...

Great idea! You could even make a series of pictures they would use throughout the day for common tasks, questions, etc, and put them on a ring they c...

Have you tried allowing the student to point to a picture to communicate their needs, wants, etc? That might help them communicate in a non threatenin...

Thanks so much for the great suggestions! Working with kids takes time, its just that sometimes there's not enough of it!

These kids are so tough! I've worked with a handful over the years and I've never really found any interventions that seemed to help significantly. It...

I teach middle school and have found that it is essential to take responsibility for what is occurring in your classroom. You are ultimately the one a...

Sounds like a tough crowd for sure. I worked in an inner city elementary charter school for a year and it was a tough setting. Middle school can be a ...