Transition + Standards= Engaging Instruction

1. Transition + Standards=Engaging Instruction Transition Service: Preparation and Training for Teachers of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Kent State University Dr. Pamela Luft Laurie Sutherin and Chrissy Williams OSERS Funded Grant Project

2. Introduction • NCLB and high-stakes testing requires schools to teach from state standards • Teaching from standards is hard… • Can be vague, boring, and irrelevant • Transition makes teaching engaging and authentic • Addresses student’s needs and outcomes • Combine transition with standards for… • Authentic, relevant, engaging instruction Transition Services Preparation & Training

3. Introduction • The following activities were developed by utilizing a framework of transition competencies from the Life Centered Career Education program developed by Brolin (1997). • Each standard has a related instructional activity across the three LCCE domains: Daily Living Skills, Personal Social Skills, and Occupational Guidance and Preparation. • The purpose is to provide a resource for teachers who are seeking to enhance the relevance and authenticity of their standards-based instruction, and ultimately, to enhance the test scores and achievement of their students. Transition Services Preparation & Training

4. Daily Living Skills5th grade • Language Arts:Communication: Oral and Visual 9. Formal and informal descriptive presentations recalling an event or personal experience that convey relevant information.. Activity-Present to class about a time when you had to go to an appointment (doctor, dentist, audiologist, etc.) and what the experience was like. • Mathematics: Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard 2. Use standard language to describe line, segment, ray, angle, skew, parallel and perpendicular. Activity-Identify the best seating in classrooms, auditoriums, meeting rooms for D/HH persons according to sightlines (rays, line segments) and parallel vs. perpendicular seating. Transition Services Preparation & Training

5. Daily Living Skills10th grade • Science: Life Sciences-Historical Perspectives and Scientific Revolutions 27. Describe advances in life sciences that have important long-lasting effects on science and society… Activity- Students evaluate a situation in which genetic tests have revealed that a pregnancy may lead to the birth of a child with some genetic disorder: The Dilemma of Choice (relate to deafness) • Social Studies: History-The United States in the 20th Century 10.Analyze the causes and consequences of major political, economic and social developments of the 1930s… Activity- Read about deaf families during the Great Depression (e.g., In This Sign). How do lifestyles differ from deaf families today? Transition Services Preparation & Training

6. Personal Social Skills5th grade • Science: Physical Sciences-Nature of Energy 7. Describe that changing the rate of vibration can vary the pitch of a sound. Activities- Students compare their audiogram to its impact on different sounds according to frequency (pitch), use it to describe own hearing. Students use a balloon while talking or listening to music to feel its vibration. Can experiment with high and low frequency and loudness of sounds to vary the balloon’s vibrations • Social Studies: Geography Standard-Location 5. Explain, by identifying patterns on thematic maps, how physical and human characteristics can be used to define regions in North America. Activity- Use a thematic map for the US showing language and communication. Research those areas with strongest ASL use and find out why (location of a residential school). Discuss if being close to a Deaf community is something that is important to them. Transition Services Preparation & Training

7. Personal Social Skills10th grade • Language Arts: Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text 4. Assess the adequacy, accuracy and appropriateness of an author’s details, identifying persuasive techniques… Activity- Examine print or media from Deaf Culture and disability literature that is either supportive or critical of key issues—critique use of persuasive techniques. • Mathematics: Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard-Transformation and Symmetry 6. Identify the reflection and rotation symmetries of two- and three-dimensional figures. Activity- Students give each other spatial directions in ASL involving right/left and front/back: viewers must reverse these directions to interpret correctly. Transition Services Preparation & Training

8. Occupational Guidance and Preparation5th grade • Language Arts: Writing Applications 2. Write responses to novels, stories and poems that organize an interpretation around several clear ideas, and justify using examples… Activity- Read about personal and societal values and perceptions of work and choose a position - giving clear examples to support position (readings can be about d/hh perceptions of a hearing world. • Mathematics: Data Analysis and Probability Standard 3. Read and interpret increasingly complex displays of data, such as double bar graphs. Activity- Determine number of jobs available in a specific field and those that are filled (e.g., IDEA’s teacher and staff data: http://www.ed.gov/ about/reports/annual/ osep/index.html Transition Services Preparation & Training

9. Occupational Guidance and Preparation10th grade • Science: Science and Technology-Understanding Technology 2. Describe examples of scientific advances and emerging technologies and how they may impact society. Activity- Students will explain how new technology can help them qualify for raises and promotions (ex. VRS, TTY, online training, etc.). • Social Studies: History-Industrialization 3. Analyze the reasons for the rise and growth of labor organizations in the United States (i.e., Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) Activity- Examine how working policies and conditions changed for D/HH people. How have labor unions been used to discriminate against people with disabilities? Transition Services Preparation & Training

10. For more information… Additional information including 5th and 10th grade standards transition activities in their entirety can be found at: http://www.educ.kent.edu/fundedprojects/TSPT/grant.htm Transition Services Preparation & Training