When I was a new teacher, I found myself in several schools and with many different skill levels of students. Not only that, but I had teachers that had school bought handwriting curriculums, sped teachers with adaptive curriculums and high schools with no handwriting curriculum. In fact, many of the middle schools had given up handwriting and moved on to typing and dictation.I kept hearing “they don’t even teach handwriting anymore”. But I did!Was I behind the times? Should I move on to just accommodations? I was leaning towards that with my older students until I met a high school teacher that worked on functional life skills: things like signing your name and filling out a job application and making a list. It was likea big “A-Ha!” went off in my head! This is what is needed!
As my love for helping students with functional handwriting began to grow, I found myself being overwhelmed...
