Transition Curriculum (Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination)

Description:

ME! Lessons for Teaching Self-Awareness & Self-Advocacy - Self-determination skills, such as self-advocacy and self-awareness, have the potential to increase successful secondary and postsecondary outcomes for students with disabilities. The ME! Lessons for Teaching Self-Awareness and Self-Advocacy curriculum consists of ten units developed for the purpose of teaching critical transition knowledge and skills to high school students with disabilities.

Each unit begins with an overview of the unit's lessons and includes detailed step-by-step lesson plans, pencil-paper activities, discussion, and group activities. A student portfolio called the ME! Book is a major component of the curriculum, and each student creates and adds to their ME! Book as each unit is completed.

Student-Directed Transition Planning Curriculum - The eight Student-Directed Transition Planning (SDTP) lessons facilitate high school to adult life planning partnerships between students, their families, and educators. Educators use eight SDTP lessons to teach their students the knowledge needed to actively participate in their transition-focused IEP meetings.

Whose Future Is It Anyway? is a transition planning process emphasizing student preferences, needs, and interests. The curriculum provides opportunities for students with disabilities to explore issues of self-awareness and acquire problem-solving, decision- making, goal-setting, and small-group communication skills. The outcome of this process is that students learn how to be meaningfully involved in their transition planning process.