How can high schools teach academic content and the critical skills
students need to navigate life beyond the classroom? Fitting it all into
one curriculum can be a challenge--and this book helps you juggle it
all, ensuring personalized, student-centered instruction that prepares
students with and without disabilities for success.
This book introduces a unified framework for transition services in an
integrated, cohesive process that gets all students ready for college,
careers and citizenship. With six model lesson plans aligned with
Common Core State Standards this guidebook helps educators and
transition specialists make key improvements to transition services and
instructional practices. Youâ (TM)ll learn the basics of
- raising expectations for all students through rigorous,
personalized, and standards-based instruction
- improving access to the general curriculum for students with
special needs
- developing meaningful transition IEPs based on students'
strengths, preferences, and needs
- blending quality transition services and quality instructional
practices into one integrated approach
- weaving in additional adaptations and accommodations for students
with more significant support needs
- connecting academic content to practical, real-world contexts
To help you strengthen your practices right away, you'll get practical
tips and activities, specific examples of embedding transition skills
into good classroom instruction, and recurring case studies that follow
two students with different support needs and interests. And the
included forms--assessment tools, student profile sheets,
self-evaluations, and more--will help you gather and organize key
information on each student.
A must-have guide for all education professionals in inclusive high
schools, this book will help you meet Common Core State Standards while
fully preparing all students to succeed: in college, in the workplace,
and in life.
