School-to-Work Resources for Systems Builders
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Analyze and Apply: A Guide to Connect Learning to Performing (1994)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This curriculum contains 306 instructional lesson plans for teachers of core curriculum grades 1-12. Lesson plans are interdisciplinary, integrate SCANS competencies into academic instruction, and provide career exploration and total community involvement in re-configuring classroom context and pedagogy. The curriculum outlines extensive professional development for classroom teachers and administrations at all levels.
Become Your Own Expert (1995)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
A self-advocacy curriculum for individuals with learning disabilities.
Becoming Self-Determined (1996)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This curriculum provides a framework and several strategies which help students develop skills and knowledge for self-determination. Building self determination allows students to become leaders in their school-to-work transition process.
Common Threads in the High School Experiences of Students with Disabilities: Educating Policy Makers (1994)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This curriculum guide is designed to provide educators, administrators, and policy makers with information regarding the factors that serve to predict postschool success of youth with disabilities. It includes an action planning format that affords local teams the opportunity to develop plans to address these areas of practice.
Connections: A Transition Curriculum for Grades 3-6 (1993)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
The curriculum guide is an innovative educational program specifically designed for elementary age students grades 3 through 6. The program can be implemented in the resource room or regular classroom, and includes program design, classroom activities, worksheets, and community activities designed to assist students in developing career awareness and increasing self-awareness and esteem.
Experience-Based Career Education (1996)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Student-Focused Planning and Development
Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) is a program designed to meet the individual academic needs of the student while providing vital career and life experiences in the community. It has been known for generations that "experience is the best teacher" for secondary students and is the key ingredient that makes them effective and productive both in school and in their community.
The Job Club Handbook (1997)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning
This curriculum guide addresses job readiness for school-to-work transition programs. Key concepts and skills, behavioral objectives, and activity strategies are progressively presented into units. Teacher directed lessons and student derived "rap session" discussions take students through the learning process of finding and keeping a job.
Post-Secondary Education Guide: From High School to College - How to Help Students with Disabilities Prepare (1996)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This curriculum is intended for use by professionals and family members who work to assist students with disabilities transitioning from high school to post-secondary education. It may be used either as a teaching tool for professionals and parents to educate others, or as a reference while working directly with students who are preparing to enter college.
Project C.E.R.E.S. (1997)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement
This curriculum profiles Project C.E.R.E.S. (Career Education Responsive to Every Student), a K-12 Career Education Integration program for students at risk and students with disabilities. Project C.E.R.E.S. consists of an integration model and support material for program replication. A complete K-12 curriculum consists of materials for students and teachers; selected material accommodates students with disabilities; additional material assists administrators, parents, and business/community members with program implementation and institutionalization.
School-to-Work Timeline Module: Trainer's Curriculum (1997)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This trainer's curriculum was produced for the New York State (NYS) School-to-Work Advisory Council with sponsorship from the NYS Education Department, Office of Workforce Preparation and Continuing Education under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. This trainer's curriculum was designed for personnel responsible for the development and implementation of CSPDs (Comprehensive Systems for Personnel Development) within local districts with a focus on inclusion of students with disabilities, their educators, and their families/advocates in the school-to-work process. This interactive curriculum comes with an in-depth trainer's outline, transparency masters, a computer disk with the Powerpoint presentation, and a timeline module comprised of wooden figures for a three dimensional presentation of the information presented.
Self Awareness and Transition (1996)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This curriculum contains self-awareness activities that will lead to developing a clear, personal self-portrait and better postschool planning.
Teaching Agricultural Safety to Kids (TASK) (1995)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This curriculum outlines the TASK Program which is designed around a youth-teaching-youth model with high school students serving as peer teachers for middle school and elementary students. There are currently 19 units in the TASK curriculum, with nine additional planned for fall 1997 release. By teaching younger students about safety, high school students develop skills in public speaking, career exploration, planning, and partnership development.
Transition from School to Life: A Complete University Course for Special Educators
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This a university course focusing on transition for pre-service educators. It includes complete lesson plans, syllabus, overheads, and handout masters.
Transition Issues Curriculum (1991)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This guide, designed for 11th and 12th grade students, provides step-by-step lesson plans for a year-long course empowering students to plan their own transition from school to adult life. This community-focuesd approach includes units covering the following areas: Education, Career and Employment; Community and Residential; Legal and Medical; Recreation and Leisure; Social and Interpersonal.
We Can Do It (1994)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
A sixty-page curriculum for teaching self-determination. It includes sample lessons relating to self awareness, goal setting, assertive communication, choice making, problem solving, and advocacy leadership.
Writers Inc: School-to-Work (1996)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This curriculum effectively blends academic writing basics with the nuts and bolts of business communication. Along with common forms of school writing, this relevant and accessible handbook provides strategies and samples of work-related communications, such as resumes, cover letters, memos, meeting minutes, instructions, proposals, speeches, communicating in groups, workplace variety, and work habits. Source books provide students with a wide variety of practical writing experiences they can transfer to the workplace. Teacher editions available.