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We hope the resources to the left under Web Resources provides you with useful, applicable tools you can use with students and offer the young adults you support daily. Your job is a delicate blend of facilitating the learning of self-advocacy, academic, work place, and daily living skills while empowering students to make choices and decisions as they strive to reach their post school goals. Our role as a teacher is to help students be successful on our campuses, in their homes, in the community, in a post secondary education setting, and in the workplace. Consulting, communicating and collaborating with general education teachers is required to help our students be successful in their coursework. Sharing your knowedge and expertise on how students learn, why they learn "differently," and what needs to take place for students to be engaged and involved in the classroom will increase our students' academic achievement as well as resolve, self-esteem, and self-efficacy.
In Glendale Union High School District, we start the process of providing transition services from the time students first enroll at our campuses. Work with the student, family, previous teacher, other teachers supporting the student, and with community providers to begin creating the blueprint for what the student wants to do after high school. Have students involved in the IEP process by writing goals for themselves, writing about their strengths and weaknesses, developing PowerPoint presentations to share at meetings, and sending out their own invitations to their IEP. Incorporate self-determination and self-advocacy in to your curriculum. Model self-advocacy skills yourself! Pride yourself in being student-focused, student-driven, using data to help guide you and the other members of the IEP team in developing and delivering a comprehensive educational program for each student you support and serve.
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