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Transition Tip #1 Self Determination/Self
Advocacy
Activity: Students interview one of the following types of people. Describe personal lives, social activities, early and later goals in life. (Politician, Preacher, Teacher, Professional, Worker)
Transition Tip #2Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: Share the results of the interview from Tip #1. Discuss these questions:
1. Which of the lifestyles do you want for yourself?
2. What are characteristics of that lifestyle that appeal to you?
3. What does your lifestyle say about you?
Transition Tip # 3 Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: Have each student write 5 positive things about every student in the class on separate sheets of paper. Review with individual student to help build self concept and self esteem.
Transition Tip #4 Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: Read Dr. Suess, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”( Examining the various places life may take you.)
Transition Tip #5 Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: Facilitate a classroom discussion of the difference in “Wants and Needs.” After discussion, have student generate a T chart of 5 “needs” and 5 “wants.” (This list will later be used in developing goals.)
Transition Tip # 6 Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: From your list of wants, develop 3 goals. (Goal setting)
Transition Tip # 7 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: For one of the goals, prioritize a list of activities to be done to achieve the goal. (How to prioritize)
Transition Tip # 8 Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: Develop a plan for monitoring the activities from the previous goal. (Monitoring progress)
Transition Tip # 9 Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: Divide class into 2 groups and allow 5 minutes to generate a list of activities we use to self manage. (grocery lists, to do lists, calendars) Group with most wins.(Teaches self management skills)
Transition Tip # 10 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Partner with another student and verbally sequence the plan for their day’s activities. (Teaches planning and self management)
Transition Tip # 11 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Give each student a blank sheet of paper. Each student then stands and closes their eyes. Have student follow directions.
1. Fold sheet in half. 2. Tear off bottom right corner. 3. Fold in half again 4. Tear off left top corner 5. Tear bottom right corner 6. Fold in half again. 7. Tear off top right corner.Everyone unfolds their paper. Each should be the same, but all are
different. WHY? (Importance of active listening)
Transition Tip # 12 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Partner with another student. While one student sits on their hands, the other student tells the story of their previous day. The listener must display appropriate listening behaviors, i.e., nodding, eye contact, gestures with appropriate verbal feedback, etc. (Active listening)
Transition Tip # 13 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Volunteering KWL – Discuss: What do you know
about volunteering? What would you like to know about volunteering? Each student decides on a volunteer activity to do in the next week.
Transition Tip # 14 Self Determination/Self Advocacy
Activity: Question the teacher/principal
Students formulate questions to obtain information relating to that individual’s personal career choices. (Learning to ask the “right”questions)
Transition Tip # 15 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Round Robin for Health Each student names one way to
improve or stay healthy as we go around the room taking turns. For each one named, the student get 1 point. Tally scores at end.(Why health is important)
Transition Tip # 16 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Divide into small groups and discuss what is known about health insurance. After a 5 minute discussion in the small group, share with the large group while teacher charts responses.
Transition Tip # 17 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Who’s Important??? Each student will make a list of 5
of the most important people in their lives. This list must include identifying information. (Begins Address Book or Reference List)
Transition Tip # 18 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Personal Strengths and Limitations – Each student needs to recognize 3 strengths and 3 limitations. Write on separate index cards.
Transition Tip # 19 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Limitations – Conference with individual student (may partner students together) on ways to overcome or compensate the identified limitations.
Transition Tip # 20 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Charades Write various emotions on pieces
of paper. Each student draws and acts out that emotion. (Effect of non-verbal behavior)
Transition Tip # 21 Self Determination/ Self Advocacy
Activity: Group students in groups of 3. Each student in the group discusses their own disability and how it affects them. Then each student talks about the accommodations that work best for them.
Transition Tip # 22 Community
Activity: Each student consults a family member about their hobbies. Have a “Show and Tell” about the various hobbies identified.
Transition Tip # 25 Community
Activity: With a partner identify 3 skills needed to participate in community activities.
Transition Tip # 27 Community
Activity: RACE – Divide into 2 or 3 teams. Allow 5 minutes to brainstorm all the jobs within their community. Team with most is the winner.
Transition Tip # 28 Community
Activity: Divide into groups and write a song about a community place, person or people.
Transition Tip # 29 Community
Activity: Make a list of people in your community you might ask to help you find a job.
Transition Tip # 30 Community
Activity: Divide class into 2 groups. One group makes a list of things needed for daily living (i.e., stamps, bread, milk, towels, gas, medicine, etc.) The other group makes a list of places in the community. Then make a match game.
Transition Tip # 31 Community
Activity: Write a community activity on an index card. Partner with another student and draw one card. Each pair then discusses appropriate dress for that activity.
Transition Tip # 32 Community
Activity: Each student develops a daily menu demonstrating a well balanced diet. Each student then swaps with another student to evaluate work. Discussion should be about the importance of daily nutrition.
Transition Tip # 33 Community
Activity: Each student makes a list of 3 leisure activities enjoy. Each student then chooses one activity and shares with another student the preparation needed to participate in that activity.
Transition Tip # 34 Community
Activity: Divide the class into 2 or 3 groups. Each group then makes a diagram of government officials (i.e., local, state and federal) demonstrating the top official down.
Transition Tip # 35 Community
Activity: Game of places. Write names of places in the community on pieces of paper. Each student draws one and has to give a verbal description of that place. Student who guesses it goes next.
Transition Tip # 36 Community
Activity: Yellow Pages – Make a list of services that one would need. Students use phone book to locate the name and number of service providers in their community.
Transition Tip # 37 Community
Activity: Divide class into 3 groups and have them brainstorm community services or activities that are paid for with tax dollars.
Transition Tip # 39 Community
Activity: Stump the panel – Let 3 people volunteer to be a community expert panel. The audience then tries to stump the panel by asking questions about community/government services and their location. (court house, bank, jail, pharmacy, grocery, etc)
Transition Tip # 40 Community
Activity: Role Play – Each student assume the role of a “community helper”. (nurse, doctor, policeman, fireman, mailman, etc.) While portraying this person, other students may ask questions about this type of job. (Research required)
Transition Tip # 41 IGP
Activity: Assign the students to discuss with a partner, three jobs they are interested in for a career.
Transition Tip 42 IGP
Activity: Develop a Three Column Chart for each Career Cluster with headings – “Careers”, “Skills” and “Courses” on each. Assign students to transfer their career choices onto a Post It note (one for each career) and place it on the related Career Cluster chart.
Transition Tip # 43 IGP
Activity: Divide students into Career Cluster groups according to their career choices. Assign the groups to brainstorm 10 or more skills needed for the Career Cluster, and place/write them under the “Skills” section of the Career Cluster chart.
Transition Tip # 44 IGP
Activity: Assign students to complete a Learning Styles Inventory (ex: CITE).
Transition Tip # 45 IGP
Activity: For a journal activity, assign students to explain a minimum of 3 ways their Learning Style fits their career choices.
Transition Tip # 46 IGP
Activity: Invite high school counselor to discuss course requirements with the students.
Transition Tip # 47 IGP
Activity: Obtain copies of the high school catalog. Assign Career Cluster groups to examine the high school catalog to locate course offerings that are beneficial to the cluster and place/write them on the Three-Column chart labeled, “Courses.”
Transition Tip # 48 IGP
Activity: Assign students to individually determine the courses they will need to take for their own personal career choice.
Transition Tip # 48 IGP
Activity: Assign student to compare the list of courses with a partner from the Career Cluster group.
Transition Tip # 50 IGP
Activity: Students are to individually determine if they need to add more courses to their own lists and how different their list is to the chart created by the group.
Transition Tip # 50 IGP
Activity: For a journal entry, assign students to respond to the question –”Why do I read, what do I read, and how often do I read?”
Transition Tip # 52 IGP
Activity: Using copies of their transcripts and/or progress reports, assign students to chart their reading grades, test scores, etc.
Transition Tip # 53 IGP
Activity: Direct the students to analyze what the information from their charts says about their reading ability.
Transition Tip # 54 IGP
Activity: Assign students to their Career Cluster groups. They are then to take turns sharing how reading will help their employability.
Transition Tip # 55 IGP
Activity: For a journal entry, assign students to respond to the question – “When and how is math important in my life?”
Transition Tip # 56 IGP
Activity: using copies of their transcripts and/or progress reports, assign students to chart their math grades, test scores, etc.
Transition Tip # 57 IGP
Activity: Direct the students to analyze what the information from their charts says about their math ability.
Transition Tip # 58 IGP
Activity: Assign each student to use a high school course planning sheet and a course catalog to decide the courses they will take in high school.
Transition Tip # 59 IGP
Activity: Assign each Career Cluster group to research places of employment in the community that matches the Career Cluster (Resources – Voc. Rehab, Chamber of Commerce, Employment Office, Internet, etc)
Transition Tip # 60 IGP
Activity: Assign students to create a tracking chart to keep up with their own high school activities. (clubs/organization, recognitions, honors, work experience, etc.)
Transition Tip # 62 IGP
Activity: For a journal entry, instruct students to respond to the questions, - “Do my hobbies have a correlation to my Career Cluster choice?”
Transition Tip # 63 IGP
Activity: Culminating Activity – Each Career Cluster group or students individually creates a brochure highlighting the information gathered from The 3 Column Chart, The Community Research, etc. to share with others OR each student completes his/her IGP.
Transition Tip #64 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Agriculture:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #65 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Communication:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #66 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Health Science:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #67 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Public Service
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #68 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Arts & Humanities:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #69 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Construction:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #70 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Human Services:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #71 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Science & Mathematics:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #72 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Education:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #73 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Information Technology:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #74 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Social Sciences:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #75 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Business & Marketing:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #76 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Manufacturing:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #77 Career Exploration
Activity: Research and discuss careers in Transportation:
What education is necessary? How many are employed in this field? What is the projected growth? What is the average salary? Is this an area of interest?
Transition Tip #78 Career Exploration
Identify your top three areas of career interest.
What is the related career cluster for each area of interest?
Transition Tip #79 Career Exploration
What career possibilities do you see based on your present skills and interests, your likes and dislikes?
Transition Tip #80 Career Exploration
How much time are you willing and able to spend in further education or training?
Transition Tip #81 Career Exploration
Identify personal strengths that you possess and how these strengths will help in your chosen career.
Transition Tip #82 Career Exploration
Develop a career goal from the information that you currently possess about the world of work.
Transition Tip #83 Career Exploration
Discuss your ideal career based on your current abilities and knowledge of the world of work.
Transition Tip #84 Career Exploration
Identify five skills that you will need in order to be successful in your chosen career field.
Transition Tip # 85 Resources
Activity: Divide into 2-3 groups and identify people or resources that are available to assist them after high school.
Transition Tip # 86 Resources
Activity: Invite someone from the local Health Dept to visit class and inform of services available.
Transition Tip # 88 Resources
Activity: Pass out handout from Appendix E in Transition Guide. Facilitate a discussion of the difference in IDEA and ADA.
Transition Tip # 89 Resources
Activity: Discuss Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. Possible activities: Invite Rehab Counselor, Web search, Brochure discussion
Transition Tip # 90 Resources
Activity: Internet Resources – Visit the www.kycares.net website and facilitate use of the site for local services.
Transition Tip #91 Resources
Activity: Invite someone from Kentucky Supported Living to visit class. (502-564-7702)
Transition Tip # 92 Resources
Activity: Have each student choose one of their goals from Tip #6. Identify outside resources that would be helpful in attaining this goal.
Transition Tip # 93 Resources
Activity: Personal resources – Using the same goal from previous tip, identify personal resources for attaining that goal.
Transition Tip #94 Resources
Activity: Transfer of Rights – Discuss the pros and cons of being 18. Generate lists of privileges and responsibilities.
Transition Tip # 95 Resources
Activity: Divide class into groups and have each group do a web search to identify agencies that support persons with disabilities. The team with the most identified wins.
Transition Tip # 96 Resources
Activity: Each team from previous activity chooses one agency or resource. The team then research services provided by that agency.
Transition Tip # 97 Resources
Activity: Each group reports their finding from previous activity to the group.
Transition Tip #100 Resources
Activity: Have Disability Coordinator from nearby college or university visit the class.
Transition Tip # 101 Resources
Activity: Draw a map of Kentucky on paper or poster board. Write the names of all the Comprehensive Care Centers on pieces of paper. Each student takes one and gathers demographic information. Each student then places that center on the map.