easy adapted books using boardmaker

Need a SUPER EASY way to adapt books QUICKLY?  Use Boardmaker to “Symbolate,”

the text.

  

There are many ways to adapt books using Boardmaker.  This way is super fast and easy.  Check out this video on how to do it using the text symbolate option as well as copying and pasting images from the book directly from the Web!

free online transition resources - learn to become

The, “Learn How to Become,” website has a ton of content for career exploration.  You can explore career families and choose any career imaginable.  

First, you can review the basics and in-depth details about the career you are exploring.

Next, there are details on job outlook and salary.  You can select the specific State you live in. You can learn step-by-step paths to becoming a chef. 

I love how there are many options depending upon what level you want to achieve in the career - culinary school, community college, trade school, or 4 year university options. 

Next, you can read TIPS on how to become a Chef from an interview of someone currently working in that field.

Finally, there are links to Culinary School and Chef Career Resources.  Check out my video walk through of this website to get you up to speed and start using this in your classroom right away!

ESY summer 2021!

Now back to our regularly scheduled program...

Summer 2021! Time for Extended School Year with my Community Based Transition Adult Program.  Here in California, we are just now, “opening.” We have been one of the most restricted States in the U.S. during the Covid Pandemic.  Now we are finally getting back to our in-person program (THANK GOODNESS!!!). 

Many of our student jobs were lost during the shutdown. Volunteering stopped and is still extremely limited.  So this summer, I decided to focus on Recreation and Leisure and Daily Living Skills!

The days are a little harder to fill without our jobs, but we will persevere and get back working as soon as we can.  Here are some TIPS on how to stay cool while you are out an about with your class this summer:

Need help getting organized for ESY?  I have 2 FREE ESY ORGANIZERS AND LESSON PLANNERS FOR YOU!

Tropical ESY Organizer:

Ice Cream Treats ESY Planner:

Here's to an awesome summer! :)

itp step-by-step: post secondary goal statement examples

You have completed the top portion of the ITP checkboxes. Invited the appropriate Transition Services Agencies, AND completed formal or informal transition assessments (like my Interest Inventory or Visual Supports Interest Inventory).

Now it’s time to fill out the Individual Transition Plan, Post Secondary Goal Statements. Oftentimes, I see general statements in this section, but the statements should be more specific and based on your assessment results. 

Let’s look at a few examples...

Here is one for Employment...

To help get you started, I created a template with sample statements for you to use to help you write this section of the ITP.

Download this FREE resource from my Murphy Marketplace TPT Store (PDF and Google Doc editable version).

And here is a video step-by-step:

transition iep goal examples youtube series #1

Transition IEP goal examples series (goals are in the YouTube description for your convenience to copy and paste!) Check out these 2!

By (date), given access to a computer connected to the internet, (student name) will complete interest surveys and career assessments to identify careers of interest and related education/training requirements for those careers as measured by contents of Transition Portfolio documentation.

By (date), given access to a computer connected to the internet, (student name) will research and identify at least 5 possible 4-Year Colleges that match (his/her) needs by listing: the name and location of the college, the major(s)/degree(s) that lead to (his/her) career of interest, the GPA range, SAT/ACT score range, and the cost of each college for 2 out of 2 college identification exercises as measured by teacher observation and data collection.