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B 94672B 94672 21st Century Coach: 21st Century Skills in 21-Minute Lessons: Succeeding in the Workplace and in Life
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 88 Copyright: 2011

Contains 36 lessons designed to help students develop life, career, and people skills. Includes lessons specific graphic organizers, and activities. For grades 6-12.		 21st Century Coach: 21st Century Skills in 21-Minute Lessons: Succeeding in T  
B 97596B 97596 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
Grade Lvl: T Author: Sharma, Robin
Length: 314 Copyright: 2018

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduces the 5am Club concept over twenty years ago. Concepts are based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health, and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.		 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life T  
B 96686B 96686 Autism and Everyday Executive Function: A Strengths-Based Approach for Improving Attention, Memory, Organization and Flexibility
Grade Lvl: T Author: Moraine, Paula
Length: 160 Copyright: 2016

Model explains how to support executive function in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Showing how to use an individual's strengths to address executive functioning weaknesses, this approach will also help to build a strong foundation for social and communication skills. Advocating a person-centred approach, the author describes the importance of identifying the individual's preferred style of engagement and communication, and how sensory experiences impact their thoughts, feelings, and actions. She explains how to use this information to identify the individual's strengths and weaknesses across eight key areas which are the building blocks of executive functions: attention; memory; organization; time management; initiative; behavior; goal setting and flexibility. These areas can be used daily to establish predictability and offer a foundation for interpreting, processing and understanding the world with flexibility. Professionals and parents can also use them as the basis of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), or to create personalized interventions and support at school or at home.		 Autism and Everyday Executive Function: A Strengths-Based Approach for Impr T  
B 119139B 119139 Be On Time!
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Marsico, Katie
Length: 24 Copyright: 2013

Simple text and photographs help readers learn the importance of being on time. Time perception. Self-management (Psychology). From the series Kids Can Make Manners Count. AR 2.2 Lexile 320 IL K-2. 		Be On Time! KP  
B 96366B 96366 Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cooper-Kahn, Joyce / Foster, Margaret
Length: 176 Copyright: 2013

Contains strategies to help students with Executive Function (EF) challenges--those who have trouble negotiating the world of deadlines, paperwork, and main ideas. Shows how to create an "EF Smart" classroom. Offers ways to extend learning and support strategies beyond the classroom. Includes reproducible forms and handouts. Executive functions (Neuropsychology). Authors: Joyce Cooper-Kahn, a child psychologist and Margaret Foster, an educator and learning specialist.		 Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators T  
B 108994B 108994 Chill
Grade Lvl: JS Author: Reber, Deborah
Length: 196 Copyright: 2008

Describes the physiological effects of stress. Provides stress-reducing techniques. Offers organizational tips. Discusses how to cope with side effects of stress.		 Chill JS  
B 96287B 96287 Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits
Grade Lvl: T Author: Dawson, Peg / Guare, Richard
Length: 240 Copyright: 2012

Presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students with deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. Provides guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress. Special topics include how to implement a classwide peer coaching program. More than three dozen reproducible assessment tools, forms, and handouts are featured. Executive ability.		 Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits T  
B 91357B 91357 Connecting With Others (Grades 6-8)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Richardson, Rita
Length: 393 Copyright: 1997

Subtitle: Lessons For Teaching Social and Emotional Competence. Skill areas: awareness of self and others; communication; responsibility; self-advocacy and assertiveness; conflict resolution; cooperation and collaboration; love and caring; time management and organization.		 Connecting With Others (Grades 6-8) T  
B 96687B 96687 Conscious Parent's Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder: A Mindful Approach for Helping Your child Focus and Learn
Grade Lvl: T Author: Branstetter, Rebecca
Length: 240 Copyright: 2016

The Conscious Parent's Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder shows how to take a relationship-centered approach to parenting as you help improve your child's executive functioning skills: Task initiation; Response inhibition; Focus; Time management; Working memory; Flexibility; Self-regulation; Completing tasks; & Organization. Strategies and advice in this guide help build sustainable bonds, develop positive behaviors, and improve executive functioning skills for life. 		Conscious Parent's Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder: A Mindful Appro T  
KM 13726KM 13726 Digital Timer (Set of 4)
Grade Lvl: KPIJS Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2023

This unique digital timer counts up or down 1 - 100 minutes with a magnetic clip on the back. This timer solution can stand alone, be clipped to an item, or hung. Ideas for use could include speech and debate classes, mock trials, on task reminders, sporting events, or anywhere accurate timing in required. Kit includes a set of 4 digital timers per kit. IL Pres-12.		 Digital Timer (Set of 4) KPIJS  
B 97126B 97126 Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Stanier, Michael . Bungay
Length: 200 Copyright: 2010

Even the best performers are spending less than a fraction of their time doing "Great Work"―the kind of innovative work that pushes us forward, stretches our creativity, and truly satisfies us. Michael Bungay Stanier, Canadian Coach of the Year in 2006, is a business consultant who’s found a way to move us away from bad work (and even good work), and toward more time spent doing great work. The exercises are "maps"―brilliantly simple visual tools that help you find, start and sustain Great Work, revealing how to: Find clues to your own Great Work―they’re all around you Locate the sweet spot between what you want to do and what your organization wants you to do Generate new ideas and possibilities quickly Best manage your overwhelming workload Double the likelihood that you’ll do what you want to do All it takes is ten minutes a day, a pencil and a willingness to change. Do More Great Work will not only help you identify what the Great Work of your life is, it will tell you how to do it.		 Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters. KP  
B 95535B 95535 Executive Function in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for All Students
Grade Lvl: T Author: Kaufman, Christopher
Length: 263 Copyright: 2010

Offers teachers of kindergarten through twelfth grade practical advice and strategies to help them improve their students' executive function skills, including attention and impulse control, time management, and organization. Curriculum planning.		 Executive Function in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Improving Per T  
B 96631B 96631 Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens: Help for Unprepared, Late, and Scattered Teens
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hansen, Sharon A
Length: 144 Copyright: 2013

A workbook with strategies and activities designed to help teens who suffer from executive functioning disorder (EFD), or the inability to complete tasks on time and stay organized. Book is designed to provide teens with the skills needed to get organized, retain information, communicate effectively, and perform well in school and in everyday life. Based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the book offers activities that will help teens better understand their disorder and cope with it effectively.		 Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens: Help for Unprepared, Late, and Sc T  
B 96575B 96575 Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention 2nd Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Dawson, Peg / Guare, Richard
Length: 224 Copyright: 2010

Provides empirically based, practical guidelines for assessment and treatment; and includes reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets. The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school performance. Provided are many practical tools to promote executive skill development by implementing environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole-class interventions. Includes more than two dozen reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets. Executive ability. Self-management (Psychology).		 Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessme T  
B 97499B 97499 Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most
Grade Lvl: T Author: Watson, Angela
Length: 278 Copyright: 2019

You can't do it all. And you don't have to try. There are too many things competing for your attention as a teacher. The solution is NOT to manage your time better or work more efficiently. The most important step is getting clarity, and figuring out how to use your life to make an impact in ways that really matter. This book will help you strengthen the courage to do fewer things, so what remains can be done even better.		 Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most T  
B 95205B 95205 Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bergmann, Jonathan / Sams, Aaron
Length: 112 Copyright: 2012

Presents an argument and overview of the flipped classroom to educators (Grades 5-12.) In the flipped classroom, students watch recorded lectures for homework and complete assignments, labs, and tests in class. Also discusses the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace. Visual education. Individualized instruction. Teachers Time management. Homework.		 Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day T  
KM 12332KM 12332 Flipped Learning: Practical Classroom-Based Strategies that Boost Student Learning and Achievement, Grades 6-12
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 38 Copyright: 2014

In this DVD training program, teachers from a variety of content areas demonstrate classroom-based strategies and techniques for boosting student learning, developing their skills as self-guided learners and increasing student achievement. Shows how to differentiate instruction, use a variety of techniques to monitor students' understanding & adjust course content, structure class time, and how to transition from a teacher-centered delivery model to a student-oriented active learning environment.		 Flipped Learning: Practical Classroom-Based Strategies that Boost Student L T  
B 96508B 96508 Flipping 2.0: Practical Strategies for Flipping Your Class
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bretzmann, Jason
Length: 330 Copyright: 2013

Follows practicing classroom teachers as they walk you through their flipped classroom journey. Discussses why and how they made the change, what obstacles they overcame, the technology they used, and where they are heading next. 		Flipping 2.0: Practical Strategies for Flipping Your Class T  
B 95900B 95900 Get Organized Without Losing It
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fox, Janet
Length: 105 Copyright: 2006

A collection of helpful tips for kids for becoming more organized at home and at school. From the series Laugh & Learn. Lexile 770 IL 5-8.		 Get Organized Without Losing It T  
B 95859B 95859 High-Yield Routines for Grades K-8
Grade Lvl: T Author: Mccoy, Ann / Barnett, Joann
Length: 86 Copyright: 2013

Routines provide teachers with opportunities to enhance the content knowledge and mathematical practice of their students. Book shows how to optimize classroom minutes and infuse math into non-mathematical routines. Also describes several mathematical routines that will create opportunities for differentiated instruction. Each chapter begins with classroom vignettes that show how the routine might look as it is implemented in a variety of grades. Examples of student work are included. Cognitive learning.		 High-Yield Routines for Grades K-8 T  
KM 12517KM 12517 HOPS Interventions: Professional's Manual and Parent's Workbook
Grade Lvl: T Author: Langberg, Joshua M
Length: 0 Copyright: 2014

Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) Interventions was built to give practitioners hands-on support for struggling students. Teaches the skills to approaching each student individually and reinforcing positively, both at home and school. Topics addressed include: Homework recording and completion; long-term project planning; guidelines for setting clear expectations; time management techniques; steps to improve family-school collaboration and ways to improve executive functioning skills. Kit contains: HOPS Intervention Workbook 2nd edition, Reproducibles for preview, and Parent's Guide.		 HOPS Interventions: Professional's Manual and Parent's Workbook T  
B 121467B 121467 I Can't Find My Whatchamacallit!!
Grade Lvl: KPI Author: Cook, Julia
Length: 32 Copyright: 2015

Cletus is messy and disorganized. His cousin Bocephus is organized and uptight. Bocephus steps in to help his cousin after Cletus' mother refuses to let him play until his room is cleaned. Story highlights the importance of being organized in a creative, applicable way. This book will help teach children to understand, develop, and apply organization, a vital executive function skill. Planning ahead. Orderliness- Fiction. From the Functioning Executive Series. IL K-4.		 I Can't Find My Whatchamacallit!! KPI  
B 90927B 90927 Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cooper-Kahn, Joyce / Dietzel, Laurie
Length: 217 Copyright: 2008

Discusses how parents can help their children manage frustrating problems with executive functions, such as impulse control, cognitive flexibility, initiation of chores and homework, memory, planning, organizing, and self-monitoring. Executive ability in children. Self-management for children. Executive dysfunction.		 Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Execu T  
B 116762B 116762 Make the Grade: Everything You Need to Study Better, Stress Less, and Succeed in School
Grade Lvl: JST Author: Martin, Lesley Schwartz
Length: 143 Copyright: 2013

Provides advice for succeeding in school, including creating study guides, developing goals, and managing time. Students Time management. IL 7-T.		 Make the Grade: Everything You Need to Study Better, Stress Less, and Succe JST  
B 125185B 125185 Me Time: How to Manage a Busy Life
Grade Lvl: IJ Author: Andrus, Aubre
Length: 48 Copyright: 2018

Offers tips and tricks that are designed to help readers get organized, find confidence, and learn how to relax. Personal growth. Self. Time management. Series nonfiction: Stress-Busting Survival Guide. IL 4-8. Lexile 860. 		Me Time: How to Manage a Busy Life IJ  
B 97438B 97438 Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations
Grade Lvl: T Author: Axtell, Paul
Length: 347 Copyright: 2015

In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible.		 Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations T  
B 95995B 95995 Middle School : The Stuff Nobody Tells You About: A Teenage Girl with High-Functioning Autism Shares Her Experiences
Grade Lvl: T Author: Haley, Moss
Length: 160 Copyright: 2010

The transition to middle school is daunting to most, but for students with autism spectrum disorders, it can be a veritable mine field of hidden curriculum rules, social misunderstanding, cliques, etc. Based on her own experiences, Haley Moss, a teenager with Asperger Syndrome, shares what worked and what didn't work for her, to help others avoid some of the pitfalls of fitting in, making friends, and doing well academically. Discussion of each topic is followed by an advice section called What I Did. Topics include good habits, lockers, slang, teachers, academics, friendships, body changes, stress, and hopes for the future. Book was written when the author was in high school.		 Middle School : The Stuff Nobody Tells You About: A Teenage Girl with High- T  
KM 7572KM 7572 MotivAider
Grade Lvl: KPIJST Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2004

An electronic device that automatically provides children with private reminders to engage in desired behavior or stay on task. Attending. Attention. Motivation. Contents: operating instructions, MotivAider, and booklet: Helping Kids Change Their Own Behavior. Vibrating timer.		 MotivAider KPIJST  
B 121737B 121737 Over-Scheduled Andrew
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Spires, Ashley
Length: 32 Copyright: 2016

Andrew loves putting on plays so he decides to join the drama club at school. Determined to make his performance the best it can be, he joins the debate club to practice his public speaking. He signs up for dance and karate to help with his coordination. Then he's asked to play for the tennis team and edit the school newspaper. Before long he's learning to play the bagpipes, attending Spanish classes and joining the French film club. Suddenly Andrew doesn't have time for anything or anyone else, not even his best friend Edie. And he definitely doesn't have time to sleep. Andrew has to figure out if he can balance all his favorite activities and his best friend at the same time. A look at the common issue of over-scheduling/too many commitments. AR 3.5 IL K-3.		 Over-Scheduled Andrew KP  
B 119140B 119140 Plan Ahead!
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Marsico, Katie
Length: 24 Copyright: 2013

Text and illustrations teach the importance of the good manners of planning and scheduling. This easy-to-read story from the series Kids Can Make Manners Count discusses the importance of being prepared. AR 2.4 Lexile 380 IL K-2.		 Plan Ahead! KP  
KM 12904KM 12904 Planner Guide: An Organizational and Reference System for People with Social and Cognitive Challenges
Grade Lvl: ST Author: Burke, Jane / Charron, Chantal
Length: 0 Copyright: 2007

The Planner Guide is a visual (text and graphics), color-coded organizational system containing reference guides to provide information, instruction and direction for various situations. The contents of this book can be used as a curriculum for learning for younger years, adolescence, adult life and then ongoing as a life long reference tool! Use The Planner Guide to "connect the dots of life for organization, stress management, relationships, problem solving, self-advocacy, communication, personal safety, independence, and interdependence. Use the Planner Guide for: Educational Curriculum, Therapy, Support Groups, Individuals, Social Skills Curriculum and Lifetime Reference. Contents of Kit: three ring binder; event stickers; 141 reference guides; 56 wallet cards; wallet card organizer; wallet card holder; document pouch; instruction guide. (You will have to provide your own yearly calendar).		 Planner Guide: An Organizational and Reference System for People with Socia ST  
KM 12625KM 12625 RealCareer Employability Skills Program Sample Pack
Grade Lvl: ST Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2016

The RealCareer™ Employability Skills Program is an easy-to-implement program that uses hands-on activities and real-world applications to teach students 20 soft skills, from communication and interpersonal skills to time management and responsibility. Includes 1 instructor guide and 1 student workbook.		 RealCareer Employability Skills Program Sample Pack ST  
B 117519B 117519 School Made Easier: A Kid's Guide to Study Strategies and Anxiety-Busting Tools
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Moss, Wendy / DeLuca-Acconi, Robin A
Length: 128 Copyright: 2014

A guide for students on how to study for tests and how to deal with anxiety. Teaches students ways to avoid becoming emotionally overwhelmed with school and extracurricular activities so they can reduce their anxiety, increase their confidence in school, and study more effectively. Test anxiety. Stress (Psychology) Prevention. Test preparation. IL 5-10.		 School Made Easier: A Kid's Guide to Study Strategies and Anxiety-Busting T IJS  
B 96630B 96630 Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home
Grade Lvl: T Author: Dawson, Peg / Guare, Richard
Length: 294 Copyright: 2016

Drs. Dawson and Guare offer guidance for boosting executive skills--the core brain-based abilities needed to get more done with less stress. They show adults how to map an executive skills profile and take effective steps to boost your organizational skills, time management, emotional control, and nine other essential capacities. Self-realization.		 Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Ski T  
B 95297B 95297 Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential
Grade Lvl: T Author: Guare, Richard / Dawson, Peg
Length: 293 Copyright: 2013

A parent's guide to promoting the independence of teenagers by building their executive skills--the fundamental abilities needed to be organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions. 		Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens T  
B 94083B 94083 Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
Grade Lvl: T Author: Dawson, Peg / Guare, Richard
Length: 314 Copyright: 2009

Describes strategies parents and teachers can use to help children develop the "executive skills" needed to be successful at home, school, and with friends, including getting organized, planning and initiating work, staying on task, controlling impulses, regulating emotions, and being adaptable and resilient.		 Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helpi T  
B 96942B 96942 Source for Executive Function Disorders
Grade Lvl: T Author: Keeley, Susanne Phillips
Length: 211 Copyright: 2003

Target specific high-level cognitive processes in your clients with executive function disorder with activities that can be individualized to their needs and interests.		 Source for Executive Function Disorders T  
KM 12658KM 12658 Strategies for Organization: Preparing for Homework and the Real World
Grade Lvl: T Author: Winner, Michelle Garcia
Length: 0 Copyright: 2005

This 3.5 hour DVD presents Michelle Garcia Winner's Workshop by the same name. The booklet that accompanies the DVD is of handouts discussed on the DVD that can be used with students. The focus of the DVD is reviewing 10 critical steps towards helping students with the nitty-gritty of organizational skills towards completing homework assignments, concepts such as static versus dynamic organization are explored to understand that not all organizational tasks require the same type of thinking.		 Strategies for Organization: Preparing for Homework and the Real World T  
B 96166B 96166 Study Skills 1
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 100 Copyright: 1999

Study skills activities for struggling students in grades 6-12. RL 3-4. Includes time management, textbooks, scanning, library skills, reference books, following directions, note-taking, context clues, word meaning, test preparation, graphics, maps, etc.		 Study Skills 1 T  
B 96469B 96469 Study Strategies Plus: Building Your Study Skills and Executive Functioning for School Success
Grade Lvl: T Author: Sirotowitz, Sandi / Davis, Leslie
Length: 0 Copyright: 2012

Describes the executive functions of the brain, that help people stay organized, manage time, pay attention, plan future behavior, and inhibit behavior, and provides exercises and lessons that help students develop study strategies needed to develop those functions. Designed for students in secondary school, this book of exercises and lessons helps them develop study strategies that include organization, reading comprehension, note-taking skills, and test-taking skills. Workbook has reproducible pages.		 Study Strategies Plus: Building Your Study Skills and Executive Functioning T  
B 95855B 95855 Teaching Teens With ADD, ADHD & Executive Function Deficits: A Quick Reference Guide for Teachers and Parents
Grade Lvl: T Author: Zeigler Dendy, Chris A.
Length: 375 Copyright: 2011

Resource designed to help those who teach middle & high school students with attention deficit disorders. Sections: The basics of ADD & ADHD; Academic and learning issues/interventions; Executive function and organizational skills; Federal education laws (IDEA & Section 504); Medication issues; Classroom challenges & management; Going the extra mile for students. Second Edition.		 Teaching Teens With ADD, ADHD & Executive Function Deficits: A Quick Refere T  
B 96969B 96969 Tools for Classroom Instruction That Works
Grade Lvl: T Author: Silver, Harvey F / Abla, Cheryl
Length: 248 Copyright: 2018

This book provides more than 50 classroom-ready tools that make it easy to implement the nine categories of effective teaching strategies across grade levels and content areas. By incorporating these tools into your daily practice, you can turn your classroom into a place where high levels of engagement and deep learning happen every day. The challenge for teachers has always been how to build these achievement-boosting strategies into their everyday instruction: • Setting objectives and providing feedback • Reinforcing effort and providing recognition • Cooperative learning • Cues, questions, and advance organizers • Nonlinguistic representations • Summarizing and note taking • Assigning homework and providing practice • Identifying similarities and differences • Generating and testing hypotheses Each of the 50+ tools in the book includes a summary of that tool’s research-based benefits, the 3-7 basic steps for using the tool, concrete examples that model how to use the tool in classrooms, and a “Teacher Talk” section that gives tips on lesson planning and implementation. The final chapter in the book walks educators through a process for combining tools with principles of effective instructional design and knowledge of how student learning works to design focused, learning-driven, effective instructional plans.		 Tools for Classroom Instruction That Works T  
B 93435B 93435 Top-Notch Teacher Tips
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 32 Copyright: 2007

Booklet has ideas for classroom management and organization, parent communication, and more. Grades PreK-6.		 Top-Notch Teacher Tips T  
KM 12251KM 12251 Visual Time Timer (Medium and Small Timers)
Grade Lvl: PIJST Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2010

Timer allows students to see how much time remains for testing, reading, or other classroom activities. Set these battery-operated timers to the amount of time a task requires; the red indicator moves as time passes and the clock beeps when time is up.Helps individuals with Autism or Aspergers who have difficulty with transitions. Times from 0 to 60 minutes. Runs on battery. Includes 3" and 8" Timers. 		Visual Time Timer (Medium and Small Timers) PIJST  
KM 11539KM 11539 Visual Time Timer--Large (12-inch)
Grade Lvl: PIJST Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2010

A visual timer with a graphic clock face. Gives the child visual understanding of time elapsing.May be used for timed activities and for getting ready. There is an optional audible component that you can turn on so that the timer beeps when time is up. Helps individuals with Autism or Aspergers who have difficulty with transitions. Times from 0 to 60 minutes. Runs on battery. Can be free standing or hung on a wall. Contents: instruction card and timer.		 Visual Time Timer--Large (12-inch) PIJST  
KM 12250KM 12250 Visual Time Timer (Large and Medium Timers)
Grade Lvl: PIJST Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2010

Timer students can see how much time remains for testing, reading, or other classroom activities. Set these battery-operated timers to the amount of time a task requires; the red indicator moves as time passes and the clock beeps when time is up. Includes 8" and 12" timers. Large size with bold numerals is big enough for whole-class activities. 		Visual Time Timer (Large and Medium Timers) PIJST