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Let’s Review a Few Things
About Transition Planning:
Transition Planning:
o Is results-oriented
o Focuses on the education and training needed to help students reach their long-term goals
o Facilitates the movement from school to post-school activities
o Based on the student’s needs; taking into account preferences, strengths, and interests
Why is Transition Important?
• To prepare students for change
• To ensure that appropriate steps are being taken
• To help students become more self-determined
• Understand their disability
• Make better, more appropriate choices for themselves
• Take ownership of their lives!
When Do You Discuss Transition?
• A Transition Plan as part of the IEP must
be developed by age 16 or in the 8th grade, whichever comes first.
• However, parents may request to
develop a Transition Plan at any age
Who Is Included In Transition Planning?
• Student
• Parents/ Guardians
• Teachers: General Ed and Special Ed
• Local School Administrators
• County Level Support: Coordinators, Instructional
Coaches, Related Services personnel
• Agencies that may provide services during and/or
after high school
What Does IDEA Say About this?
• Students must attend or the teacher must take steps to ensure student’s preferences and interests are considered when developing the transition plan
• Parents should receive notice the student is invited, that this is a transition plan meeting and be informed of any other agencies that are invited
• The student should be listed as a participant on the Notice of Meeting
Why Address This? • Every student is important!!
o “Cookie Cutter “ transition plans do a disservice to the student
o If we don’t place importance in writing a customized plan, what good is
it??
• Post Secondary Goals are important!! o Need to know where the student is going if we are to successfully prepare
students to transition.
o Helps the team develop annual transition goals that reflect what the
student will need to achieve his/her goals.
• Transition goals and activities/services are
important!! o They drive the development of the IEP.
o Many times, are still nothing more than an “afterthought”.
The Transition Plan Simply Answers these Questions....
1. Where is the student presently?
o Preferences section
2. Where is the student going?
o Postsecondary Goals
3. How do we get the student there?
o Annual Transition Goals
• Activities/Services
Transition Writing Tools
• Step By Step Manual
• Transition Plan Reference Sheet
• Sample Transition Plans
Another Activity!
• Get with a partner and answer:
How can we make sure that each
transition plan is perfect for each
student?
How Do I Make the Transition Plan
Meaningful for Each Student?
• Do assessments (questionnaires) WELL in advance.
• Have the student with you when you draft the
transition plan.
• Prep the student on what he/she will do and say
during the meeting.
• Review the TP every time you review the rest of the
IEP.
Self Determination Tips • Talk with your caseload students about:
o Their disability
o Their accommodations; talking to their teachers about them
o What THEY want/need
o To what degree they will be involved in their IEP meeting
• Let parents know what conversations you have or
intend to have with the students regarding these
items.
• Encourage the parents to allow their child to make
as many choices as they can and be as
independent as possible.
Examples of Student Led IEP Power Point
Presentations
• Nick – middle school
• Susie – high school
Sources for Transition
• National Center on Secondary Education and
Transition
o www.ncset.org
o www.youthhood.org
• Set up an account
• Learning about: going to high school, making
and keeping friends, employment,
volunteerism, your rights, insurance, health &
safety, and living independently
More Sources
• National Gateway to Self-Determination
o www.aucd.org/NGSD
• 3-7 min. videos
• Resource guide
• Zarrow Center
o http://www.ou.edu/content/education/centers-
and-partnerships/zarrow.html
• University of Oklahoma – great materials!
More!
• I’m Determined
o www.imdetermined.org
• Videos
• Teaching materials
• Ppt. templates
• Addresses elementary, middle and high
• AHEAD – Association on Higher Education And Disability
o www.ahead.org
• Students and parents (FAQ’s, Transition Resources
A-Z)
And, another one!
• Transition Coalition
o www.transitioncoalition.org (Kansas University)
• Georgia’s GraduateFIRST
• Transition Tips
• Publications
• Transition Certification
o KU program
o Itran – online masters certification program
• Financial assistance now available for GA!!
o Continuing ed series
o Free on-line training modules (you get a certificate and 5
training hours for each module)
Helpful Websites
• Vocational Rehabilitation o Georgia Rehabilitation Services Home Page - GDOL
• Project SEARCH o www.projectsearch.us
• Council for Exceptional Children o www.cec.sped.org
• Publication: Student-Led IEP’s
o www.gacec.org
• Division for Career Development and Transition o www.dcdt.org
• Lots of transition stuff!!
Books/Curricula • Next STEP (Student Transition and
Educational Planning) o 16 lessons
o Teacher materials: lesson plans, assessment tools, reproducibles
o Student workbooks
o Video tape – vignettes
• Steps to Self-Determination o 16 lessons
o Teacher materials: lesson plans, assessment tools, reproducibles
o Cd
o Vignettes on DVD
Transition Assessments • Transition Questionnaires
o Student and parent versions o Middle, 9th and 10th graders, 11th graders, 12th graders
• GA College 411
• Career Cruising o Career Matchmaker (interest inventory ) o Learning Styles inventory o Ability Profiler
• O*NET Interest profiler (what DOL uses) o www.mynextmove.org
• Brigance Transition Skills Inventory • AIR Self Determination Assessment
o The Zarrow Center
• The Arc Self-Determination Scale o www.beachcenter.org, publications
• ESTR assessments – for mild, moderate and severe/profound. Teacher and parent versions. Spanish available.