It’s that time of the year again! The start of a new school year always brings a range of emotions: excitement, worry, anticipation, wistfulness to say goodbye to summer… We hope that these ideas and resources will help to get the new school year off to a good start for teachers, parents, and students!
Getting Organized
On the Path to Being an Itinerant with Several School Districts
A TVI shares tips to help get organized.
Reinforce literacy and communication skills through these tactile journals.
Student Schedules
Calendar Boxes and Schedule Systems as Literacy Tools
Tips to get started setting up a calendar system.
This tactile schedule has symbols and braille, and is a stepping-stone between an object calendar and a braille calendar.
Documentation
Documenting Progress: The IEP Objectives or Benchmark Is Created… Now What?
Strategies to track progress toward IEP goals, for teachers, consultants, and students.
Check, Please? Guidelines for Documentation of Student Work
Guidelines to document student work.
Data Sheets for Tracking IEP Goals
Download these free data sheets to track progress.
Setting Up the Classroom and School Day
Labeling the Environment in an Accessible Format
Create name symbols with the students to label their cubbies, desks, and other locations around the classroom.
Adapting the Daily Job Chart for Full Inclusion
Is your job chart accessible to all students? Add object symbols and braille to be sure that everyone is fully included!
Adapting the Environment for Independence
Make the classroom accessible to ALL students by labeling bins with objects, as well as print and braille.
Circle Time: Incorporating Literacy and Choice-Making
Try these ideas to make literacy and choice-making part of daily circle or meeting time.
How to Create an Interactive and Accessible Bulletin Board
Make the classroom and school bulletin boards tactile and interactive, so that they are accessible to all students.
Creating a Theme for Your Braille Classroom
Invite your students to come up with a theme to decorate your braille classroom.
Promote beginning literacy through name symbols in this back-to-school book.
Tips for Parents
Make your back-to-school shopping list accessible with objects and braille.
Sending Your Child Off for the First Day of School
Create tactile and braille notes to send to school with your child on the first day.
Educating and Including Classmates in a Mainstream Classroom Setting
Create a book to introduce your child to the other students in the classroom.
6 Tips for Preparing for the First Day of Preschool
Tips for families to set up a schedule and prepare for the beginning of school.
You Can Do It! Tips for Families Who Are Just Getting Started
General tips for parents and families to create books and activities to try at home with children who are blind, low vision, deafblind or multiply impaired.
Working with General Education Teachers
From Printed Material to Brailled Material…
Learn how to make a print document accessible to braille readers.
Working with Classroom Teachers to Serve Students with Visual Impairments
Tips for working together with general education teachers to be sure that students are getting the materials that are accessible.
Collaborating: One Vital Piece of the Puzzle in Educating Students with Visual Impairments
Suggestions on how to collaborate and network with teachers and others.
Top 10 Tips for Working with Students Who Have Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairments
Follow these guidelines to optimize learning for students with visual impairments and additional disabilities.
Taking Care of Yourself and Shifting Your Mindset
5 Back-to-School Tips for Teachers of Students with VI and Additional Disabilities
Make sure that you are taking care of yourself, as well as your students.
Reframe your attitude as you work with students who are blind or visually impaired with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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