New Year!

We've started a new year at Bridges, and we are so excited about what is in store for the kids this year. My assistant director and I took a lot of time getting ready for this year so we actually determined to stay good an organized this year. This has not been as easy task, as we have construction going on in our classroom right now. But I figured I would share some of the ideas we are using to keep our classroom and goals organized. The first thing we had to do was figure out how to keep every child's goals organized. The children in this class have multiple developmental delays, so we are working on goals across every domain of development. We decided to take each child's goals from each discipline and write them out in easy to understand language. Then we took pictures! Lots and lots and lots of pictures of each of the children working with the therapists or teachers. We put everything in a powerpoint presentation so it has pictures of various exercises and then bullet points of what the goal is. All of the goals and pictures are in page protecters in folders for each child. I'm not going to lie, this took a long time, but has been a life-saver now! Everyday when the teachers and aides in the room work with a child, they can just take their folders and know exactly what to work on and exactly what the goals are. We also gave parents copies of their folders so they know what to work on at home. Anytime a goal is updated or a therapist has a new exercise, we get pictures and update their folders. It's been amazing! These pictures will also help us keep track of their progress since most of our children don't fit into traditional assessments. A lot of work on the forefront, but well worth it!