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Success Strategies for Supporting Career/Tech Students
Ethel Still-Richardson, Lead Adjunct Assessment Instructor Florida State College at Jacksonville VERTICAL PROGRAM
Project Achieve is sponsored by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Developmental Disabilities and the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, Inc.
Success Strategies for Supporting Career/Tech Students
• Workshop Objectives:
– Provide tools for educational service providers to identify individual students needs.
– Share information on support resources that were utilized for Project Achieve/TIES/VERTICAL students.
– Share sample action plans developed to increase student self advocacy.
Workshop Outline
• Success Strategies for Supporting Career/Tech Students.
• VERTICAL Program
• What are support services?
• What are the benefits of support services?
• Getting to know your student.
• Career/Tech 101
• Coordination of Services
• Buy In (Parent, Educational Institution, Student)
• Outcome
• Q/A Session
VERTICAL Program
The VERTICAL Program is a comprehensive adult learning program that provides vocational and employment readiness training to students with disabilities at Florida State College at Jacksonville.
What Are Support Services?
• For purposes of this presentation: support services is defined as individualized plan or coordinated resources (that may be natural or college funded) provided to students with the aim of increasing student’s success rate of completion.
What Are Support Services?
• Natural
– Peer Mentoring
– Social Mentoring
– Classroom Pairing
– Family
– Community/Church
• Funded
– Office of Students Services with Disabilities • Tutoring
• Note taking
• ADA Lab
– School District • Supplemental Instructor
• Job Coach
– Technology • IPAD/IPODS
What are the benefits of support services?
• Aides in the process of inclusion.
• Develop models of support in programs to be replicated in general use ( Study Groups).
• Increases student rate of success in career/tech programs.
Getting to Know Your Student
• Supports alone will not make your career/tech student successful.
• Utilize assessments to determine feasibility of student’s success in designated program. – TABE
– Psychological Exams
– Vocational/Career Inventories
Getting to Know Your Student
• Find out what motivates your student.
• Use the 3 W’s – What are you interested in?
– When did you become interested in it?
– Why do you feel that you are interested in it?
• Determine what natural supports are available.
• Are there any identifiable road blocks to students success?
Career/Tech 101
• Know your Career/Tech Programs
– What are the entry requirements
– What is the academic rigor of the class
– Develop relationship with Program Manager.
– Develop relationship with Instructors
Coordination of Services
Buy In
(Parent, Educational Institution, Student) • Parent
– Financial – Emotional – Psychological
• Educational Institution – Deans – Program Managers – Instructors – Security
• Student – Appropriate Program
Selection – Attendance – Commitment
Outcome
Outcome (Program Completion)
• Articulated Nursing …2
• Welding……2
• Carpentry….2
• Automotive Repair…4
• Logistics and Distribution….6
• Child Care…….1
• Aircraft and Coating..1
• Facials…………….2
Sample Action Plan (Student Focused Plan)
• Student action plans should address the following areas: – Impediments to attendance.
• Transportation • Child Care
– Accommodations for students for the class • Note taker • Reader • Tape recorder • Smart pen • Extended time for test/Quizzes
– Study Plan • Time spent on assignments at
home. • Method used to keep up with
assignments. • Assignment of peer program
mentor. • Assignment of study group
sessions. • Time allotted for ADA Tutoring
on campus.
– Feed back Loop • Instructor feedback of student
progress • Student feedback of
perceived progress • Staff meeting with student
about feedback.
Q/A Session
Success Strategies for Supporting Career/Tech Students
Ethel Still-Richardson, Lead Adjunct Assessment Instructor
Florida State College at Jacksonville
VERTICAL PROGRAM