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TRANSITION FROM SCHOOL TO ADULT LIFE
MARY ALYSSA G. BOTIN
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DEVELOP PLANS BASED ON STUDENTS STRENGTHS, DREAMS AND NEEDS
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Strengths refers to a student’s personal qualities, skills, interests, and preferences.
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Strengths-based approach is an alternative to traditional models of planning and assessment, which tend to focus on identifying student’s areas of weaknesses in an effort to remediate them and teach new skills.
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Strengths-based planning focuses on what a student CAN do rather than on what he cannot do.
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Dreams refer to what a student wants to achieve both during and after high school.
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Dreams may be related to any of the following:◦Study◦Employment◦Postsecondary education◦Vocational training◦Independent living◦Relationships◦Community participation◦Personal interests
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Needs refer to the skills and opportunities that a student requires in order to live in the community and wishes to acquire in order to pursue his dreams.
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CONNECT TRANSITION GOALS TO OTHER GOALS IN YOUR STUDENTS’ IEP
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Strengths
Dreams
Needs
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Goals/Objectives
Services
Activities
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How are we going to accomplish this plan?
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(1) Develop a list of long-range transition goals that articulate the student’s dreams related to the areas of employment, postsecondary or vocational education, independent living, health, relationships, community participation, or personal interests.
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(2) The rest of the IEP and transition team including you should decide what “needs” to occur in the coming year in order to move the student closer to his long-term transition goals.
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(3) The IEP team can then use these decisions to inform and identify annual IEP goals and related transition activities that are appropriate for the students.
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ALL educational goals, activities, and services should support a student’s progress toward his transition goals and dreams.
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HELP STUDENTS DRAW ON A RANGE OF SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES
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Guideline #6 student’s transition plan should include a variety of transition-related objectives and activities that tap into school and community resources.
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For example obtaining part-time and/or summer
employment receiving training and supports related to
finding and maintaining employment participating in consumer and vocational
training obtaining driver license learning how to manage finances and
live independentlyParticipating in community recreational
activities
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BUILD A STRONG NETWORK OF SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY
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Network refers to people who care about the student, live and/or work in her community, and are willing to support her during and after high school
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What do you think are the reasons why it is important to build a strong network of community support around students with disability?
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1. Students who are connected to a community network are more likely to have experiences and opportunities available to them.
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2. People in a student’s network may also become friends who will help him to develop other friendships and to participate in recreational activities in the community.
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You can help a student build a network of community support by asking community members who the student and her family know to attend IEP and transition-planning meetings to help with brainstorming ideas for possible employment, living, and/or recreational opportunities.
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You can also help build a student’s network of support by involving community members in specific activities listed on his transition plan.
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You may want to encourage students to join local organizations or clubs of interests, youth or adult advocacy groups, community services groups, or groups affiliated with places of worship.
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REVIEW THE PLAN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR
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The annual review of the IEP and transition plan provides your team members with a natural opportunity to give feedback on the student’s progress in achieving annual transition goals and objectives, as well as to consider whether team members need to clarify or revise the goals they developed at the outset of transition planning.
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To deal with these changes, it is common for teams to invite adult services providers to transition-planning meetings during the student’s final 2 years of high school.
You can help the annual review meeting become a time of celebration by inviting the student and other team members to tell stories of the student’s accomplishments during the past year.
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REMEMBER THAT TRANSITION PLANNING BENEFITS ALL STUDENTS
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A growing movement in public education stresses focusing on the school-to-adult life transition of ALL students. The federal government responded by passing the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (PL 103-239) and by making related policies and practices in education that focus on school and work based learning opportunities.
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Educators in today’s schools are beginning to realize that expanding curriculum and collaborating with the community leads to the development of a community that supports its schools and its school system.
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THANK YOU!