An Intervention Specialist New Teacher Resource Binder for Special Education

Being an Intervention Specialist is hard! Fourteen years into teaching at a local high school, and I am still learning new strategies and resources that I wish I had known at the start of my career. Having had numerous student teachers throughout the last couple of years, I was shocked by how underprepared they were for entering our profession. I felt it was my job to give these aspiring teachers as much knowledge as I could in a short amount of time.

That's where this 148 page book comes in. Created in March 2021, it is completely up-to-date and ready for you to use as you start your career. I organized it in a way that would be helpful right from the beginning - a section on what to put into your interview portfolio along with sample interview questions that are used right in my own district. The next 14 sections focus on anything from working with general education teachers and paraprofessionals, getting prepared for the start of the school year, progress monitoring tricks and strategies, the layout of an IEP, a sample ETR, how to write present levels, IEP goals, and objectives with plenty of examples for all three sections, and a parent section including sample letters, surveys, and scripts.

There are templates you can use, advice you can grow from, and samples that hopefully will keep you from becoming overwhelmed from the beginning. I am in Ohio, so the IEP and ETR (3 year evaluation) might look a little different, but at least you can see an example of what to put into each section of each document.

You're probably wondering why I listed this book of resources so cheap. It's because I'm not out to make a ton of money off of this - I just want to help as many new and aspiring teachers as I can! I promise that this book is worth the money and then some.