Links for Teachers

Educational Materials and Activity Ideas

Adopt a Classroom

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning: G reat resources for social and emotional development. Scroll down to the "Teaching Social Emotional Skills" section for the emotion pictures.

DLTK's Growing Together - features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and projects for holidays and educational themes

Donors Choose

Dr. Jean - Activities and Songs for Young Children - If you click on "Activities of the Month" there are all kinds of cool books and other stuff to download.  They even have a book for Tooty Ta!!! Check it out!

Dr. Jean's Cheer Cards - Check out these terrific celebrations to use as reinforcers in social and emotional instruction.

Do2Learn.com - Do2Learn Foundation is a non-profit, institute that offers thousands of pages of FREE resources that address the issues of special children. AMAZING free stuff!

EduPuppy - an award winning site for "Everything for Early Childhood" - ideas, activities, philosophy, and much more

Kelly's Kindergarten - features free powerpoint presentations that go along with many Dr. Jean and Jack Hartmann songs

KizClub.com - provides lots of educational activities in language arts for preschool and elementary age children

Let's Play! Projects - information on selecting toys for play, toys for children with disabilities, adapting toys to make them easier to use, locating specially designed toys

Little Giraffes - ideas for hands-on development of phonological awareness

National Child Care Information Center - book lists for children's literature

Santa Maria-Bonita School District - Build your students' understanding and retention of the key vocabulary words with pictures.

Songs for Teaching - song tunes and lyrics for young children in Spanish

TinSnips.org - specialized teaching tools, techniques, worksheets, and activities for students who have autistic spectrum disorders.

Tools for Educators - Enjoy these printout generators, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print    teaching resources with pictures or text. 

Toys for the Holidays for Children with Disabilities - article from Assistive Technology News with information on buying appropriate toys for children with hearing impairments, physical impairments, developmental delays and vision impairments. Includes links to other sites as well.

Wilbooks - has five great programs which offer free books for your school in English or Spanish

Resources for visual strategies

PicSearch.com - An image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures.

SET-BC (Special Education Technology British Columbia) pictureSET database - a collection of downloadable visual supports that can be used by students for both receptive and expressive communication in the classroom, at home, and in the community.

Use Visual Strategies.com - Pictures to print to help you to - organize the environment, teach skills and improve two-way communication, develop calendars and schedules, give students information, communicate what is happening, explain what is changing and establish rules and behavior guidelines.

Organizations

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning - promotes the social emotional outcomes and enhances the school readiness of low-income children birth to age 5, and serves as a national resource center for disseminating research and evidence-based practices

Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior - provides tools and strategies to assist teachers in problem-solving a plan to support young children who are having challenging behavior

Devereux Early Childhood Initiative - promotes young children's social and emotional development. Sign up to receive their quarterly newsletter or read past issues online here.

Division of Early Chilhood of the Council for Exceptional Children
(DEC)

Dr. Becky Bailey's Loving Guidance - renowned teacher, author, and nationally recognized expert in Early Childhood Education and Development

Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten Program

High/Scope Educational Research Foundation

National Association for the Education of Young Children - (NAEYC)

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)

Project Participate - provides families, educators, administrators and therapists with simple strategies to increase the active participation of students with disabilities in school programs

Featured Link

Recognition and Response (RTI for Pre-K)

We are pleased to share this website that is designed to provide the most
up-to-date knowledge and resources on Recognition & Response (R&R),
including highlights from a recent webinar presenting new research findings
on the first implementation study on R&R in pre-k classrooms. 

Marilyn Hibbard
Program Specialist
Pre-K Children with Disabilities
Department of EducationBureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services