Getting Started with Students
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Assessing Your Students' Readiness
Your students come to you at various stages of readiness for college. The dependency that can be unwittingly fostered by years in special education programs becomes a huge barrier to self-sufficiency. Some students deny that their disability limits them in school or that they have a disability at all. Having vague or inaccurate information about their disability is common. Many capable students believe they are not capable or have not learned how to work around limitations caused by their disabilities.The transition planning process asks the question: What is the post-school outcome for this student? If the answer includes postsecondary education, it is time to consider activities that will insure that the student is prepared. Most IEP committees do consider the question of academic preparation (Is the student in the necessary pre-college classes?) and develop an appropriate course of study. The student and the rest of the committee must also consider other readiness questions.
Using the Planning Worksheet
The Post-ITT Planning Worksheet provides a framework for the committee's discussion of these topics. The results of that discussion will give you a starting place in the Guidance Activities.The Planning Worksheet comes in a Parent/Teacher/Mentor Version and a Student Version. The content of these two versions is identical. There are 26 descriptive statements and a simple 1 to 3 point rating scale to describe the student's level of knowledge, awareness, skill or experience. Each rater (student, teacher, parent or other) chooses a rating for each of the 26 statements and brings their ratings to the IEP meeting or other discussion. View a procedure by clicking on the link to help you introduce the worksheet.