Description
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. Youll 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.
Reviews
Review by: Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Professor, Ohio State University Nisonger Center
“A compelling resource for both general and special educators . . . provides an excellent overview of quality instructional practices that meet the academic standards while preparing students to transition to productive futures!”
Review by: Lori Howard, Assistant Professor of Special Education, Marshall University Graduate School of Education and Professional Development
“A well-described overview of the issues surrounding transition planning for students with disabilities combined with practical suggestions for inclusive schools . . . a welcome addition to the transition literature.”
Review by: Gary Greene, Professor Emeritus of Special Education, California State University, Long Beach
“Timely in its philosophy, focus, and content . . . offers numerous practical tools and suggestions for working with transition-aged youth with disabilities in inclusive settings.”
Table of Contents
Series Preface
Editorial Advisory Board
About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Dedication
- Expanding Our Thinking About High Schools: A Unified Framework for Secondary Transition Services
Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in High Schools
A Unified Framework for Secondary Transition Services
- Good Transition Practices
Legislative Influence
Quality Transition Practices
Appendix: Summary of My Performance
- A Solid Instructional Foundation for Positive Postschool Outcomes
Key Concepts for Quality Instruction
Academic Rigor and Standards
Personalization: Knowing Students Well
Career Exploration
Inclusive Practices
- Bringing It Together: Good Transition and Good Instructional Practices
The Universal Level of Transition Services
Internal and External Supports
Appendix A: Examples of Content Area Units
Appendix B: Blank Forms
- One Step Further: Supporting Students with Unique Needs
Quality Instruction
Academic Rigor and Standards
Career Exploration
Personalization
Inclusive Program Practices
Internal and External Supports
Appendix A: Student Profile
References
Index