Hi there! My name is Kelsi P. and I’m an elementary school special Education teacher. I teach a variety of students on a daily basis, including resource students who just need extra assistance in a subject area as well as handling and teaching copying skills for students with AD/HD, ASD, and ED. I also have students who do not have behaviors related to their disability, but require more instruction in my classroom on a different ability level. Due to these major differences in abilities, I have to utilize a range of differentiate skills.

Part of my job as a Special Education teacher is to also stay up to date with the General Education curriculum, collaborate with the classroom teachers that I share students with, and to teach what they are teaching in the classroom as much as I can. This gives me an extra set of experience to work with students of ALL abilities.

I have always loved working with elementary students, whether coaching or teaching academics. I teach at a small elementary and am the only Special Educations teacher. This means I teach students in K-4, previously K-5. Even though, I specifically teach Special Education, I also work with students in the General Education classrooms at different times of the day in reading intervention groups and those who struggle with different behaviors.

I have always loved to write. My mother is a junior high, previously high school, English teacher. I have learned a variety of skills on using an original way of writing to engage your readers. I also dig to find different ways to teach basics skills to learners who have disabilities in writing or just struggle with this subject area in any way.

I am an elementary Special Education Teacher that works with students in grades K-4 daily. These students have a range of disabilities including: specific learning disabilities in reading, writing, and math; AD/HD, Autism (ASD); ED.

The district I teach at uses the program Learning Without Tears, previously known as Handwriting Without Tears. I have also adapted