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Teaching Transition Skills: Integrated Thematic Units

Teaching Transition Skills: Integrated Thematic Units. Pamela Luft Mary Bonello, Kelly Huff, Nichole Zirzow and other transition grant students Kent State University. OSERS-funded project. Goals: D/HH teachers and KSU grant students work collaboratively to improve transition outcomes.

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Teaching Transition Skills: Integrated Thematic Units

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  1. Teaching Transition Skills:Integrated Thematic Units Pamela Luft Mary Bonello, Kelly Huff, Nichole Zirzow and other transition grant students Kent State University

  2. OSERS-funded project • Goals: • D/HH teachers and KSU grant students work collaboratively to improve transition outcomes. • Teachers and grant students develop integrated transition-based thematic teaching units. • Units use the 3-stages of Understanding By Design (Wiggins and McTighe, 1998). • At least one unit is developed and implemented each year by each teacher/grant student team.

  3. Design Process: Preparation • Identify a transition need area and related class content for a unit. • Use Transition Competency Battery results • Use observations of key student needs • Identify curricular priorities • Apply filters for selecting key understandings

  4. Design Process: Stages • Stage One: Identify overarching understandings and key curriculum standards. • Stage Two: Identify ways for collecting evidence. • Use the six facets to ensure comprehensive teaching for understanding • Stage Three: Identify lessons and activities— • that provide skills used to demonstrate evidence (Stage 2) • that overarching understandings are achieved (Stage 1).

  5. Spring 2002 Units • Communication Unit: MS students with multiple disabilities. • Community Participation Unit: MS students. • Authority and Responsibility Unit: MS students. • Restaurant Unit: HS students. • Budgeting Unit: HS students.

  6. Fall 2002 • Self-determination Unit: HS students with guest presentation and performance by CJ Jones. • Career Choices: HS students. • Budgeting for a New Car: HS students. • Lifelong Literacy Unit: MS students. • Food and Nutrition Unit: MS students. • IEP Self-determination Unit: MS students. • Career Exploration: MS students.

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