Transition Teacher Course Categories

Student’s complete career and interest inventories, assess values, work with case manager to identify current skills, and record their employment experiences. Students tour some local businesses for exposure to a variety of jobs and work towards setting realistic goals for a possible career path.  Students will also work on skills to apply for jobs (basic concepts, interpreting job descriptions, pre-application skills, matching the description with actual skills and abilities) and knowledge of the interview process.  They will leave the class with in-depth research of careers and the ability to identify those careers that match their current set of skills.

Advanced:

This class reviews many of the topics from the Basic Family Life class: awareness of positive relationships, our bodies, public and private places and behavior, appropriate touch and safety with strangers as well as people we know. The Advanced class covers more topics, which include human reproduction, sexual decision making, birth control and sexually transmitted infections.

PowerPoint shows,  Boardmaker social stories, videos, and discussions are used throughout this class.

Check activities for appropriateness for your students - some videos are for more mature and possibly sexually active students (STRIVE, INVEST, FOCUS, EXPLORE and some PHASE students).

Parental/guardian permission is required and pre- and post testing is done to check for understanding.

Independent Living will cover the basic skills and information needed to live on your own: Decision Making; Economic Systems; Managing your Money: taxes, banking and consumer credit; Building Financial Security: savings, investment, insurance; Making Spending Decisions; Housing, transportation and food.

Course Syllabus

This class is an independent living simulation “real life” which takes the independent living skills learned previously in prerequisite course material and put them into action.  Students are assigned a roommate and learn the advantages and disadvantages.  Curriculum covered during the this course include: apartment/independent living application processes, damage deposits, move in check list, signing a lease, ending a lease early and cost involved with moving.  Student’s grocery shop and prepare meal plans from a prerequisite class working within a daily budget.  Students demonstrate the skills needed and complete basic housekeeping and maintenance skills that are completed daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.  Students also learn how to respond to emergency situations.

This class is an independent living simulation “real life” which takes the independent living skills learned previously in prerequisite course material and put them into action.  Students are assigned a roommate and learn the advantages and disadvantages.  Curriculum covered during the this course include: apartment/independent living application processes, damage deposits, move in check list, signing a lease, ending a lease early and cost involved with moving.  Student’s grocery shop and prepare meal plans from a prerequisite class working within a daily budget.  Students demonstrate the skills needed and complete basic housekeeping and maintenance skills that are completed daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.  Students also learn how to respond to emergency situations.

This study skills course is a continuation of College Success. I have additional study strategies critical for academic success.  Students will learn to increase their study skills in memorization, listening, and test taking.  In addition, students will develop a better understanding of the culture of college by learning how to interact with professors and peers in a post-secondary setting.

This course provides academic writing skills required in the post-secondary setting.  Course content may include the writing process, editing and grammar skills, and writing paragraphs, essays, and research papers.

This course assists students in understanding their own disability, and how it impacts learning, employment and social interactions. Personal strengths and challenges when learning new and/or difficult information in school and on the job are identified. Students will become familiar with the transition process as it relates to their IEP; their current life status in each of the transition areas; basic laws and disability rights in secondary education, post-secondary education, and employment; and how to identify and ask for accommodations in various environments. Self-Advocacy skill development, and understanding community agencies and how to access those resources are key components of this class.

This class is designed to introduce the student to basic office skills.  Each student will work on increasing keyboarding skills, informal and formal correspondence, electronic filing using Microsoft Excel, data entry, office documents using Microsoft Word, and ordering supplies online.  

This class is an independent living simulation “real life” which takes the independent living skills learned previously in prerequisite course material and put them into action.  Students are assigned a roommate and learn the advantages and disadvantages.  Curriculum covered during the this course include: apartment/independent living application processes, damage deposits, move in check list, signing a lease, ending a lease early and cost involved with moving.  Student’s grocery shop and prepare meal plans from a prerequisite class working within a daily budget.  Students demonstrate the skills needed and complete basic housekeeping and maintenance skills that are completed daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.  Students also learn how to respond to emergency situations.

Recreation and leisure develops confidence in broadening social skills in a  nd out of class, going from current comfort levels to being open to new experiences. Students will identify preferred activities, determine how to access activities, plan when and where the activity is to take place, confirm or cancel plans and follow through in participating in the activity at school and in the community.

a grown-up version of morning meeting 

This course provides instruction on basic writing skills used in everyday life. Students will increase their knowledge and use a variety of resources to expand literacy through movies, books and other forms of written literacy.  Students will read novels and increase skills in basic reading comprehension and vocabulary expansion.  Students will learn to organize ideas in a logical order, write a rough draft, and edit/revise independently. Students will learn to identify the story plot, character analysis, and understand vocabulary.  Students will learn to read for information and participate in classroom discussions.

Course Description
Through the instruction of soft skills associated with employment, students will gain an understanding of job management skills and building employee/employer relationships. Students will increase their understanding of workplace protocols and expectations, as well as ethical conduct, including social media. Students will also become aware of the evaluation process of job performance and the effective strategies for conflict resolution, problem solving, and resigning from a job.