Transition Instructional Resources

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard.  College, careers, and more course for:

• College admissions
• Careers
• Personal Finance
• Entrepreneurship
• Growth Mindset 

Youthhood.org is a curriculum-based tool helping young adults plan for life after high school.  Comes with a curriculum guide. Online activities include:

• Write in their Private Journal
• Test their knowledge in their Activities Folder
• Set goals in their Life Map
• Reflect on content in their Class Notebook. 

Texas OnCourse guides educators, students, and their families through the entire process of planning for what happens after high school.

• Middle School Curriculum Guide

  • lesson plans for college and career readiness and investigating careers

  • Free download with registration

• MiddleGalaxy

  • Space-themed game helping middle school students learn about options in high school and beyond. 

Teacher created resources - sites that have teacher created examples. 

• Live Binder

• Pinterest

• Teachertube

Parent Resources

Utah Parent Center - Resources for parents during the COVID-19 outbreak

Parent Center Hub - Multilingual resources on COVID-19 that you could share with the families you help. Connects you, colleagues, and families with:

• Guidance from OSEP, the Department of Education, and others.
• More multilingual resources
• Telecommuting Technology and Tips
• Schooling at Home
• Coping Tips and Other Useful Information
• Click here for a full list of tips (in English or Spanish)

ME! Curriculum - Lessons for teaching self-awareness and self-advocacy

Whose Future is it Anyway? helps prepare students for their IEP meetings and gain self-determination skills through six sections that contain 36 lesson sessions.  
This lesson package comes with a Coach's Guide (PDF) that outlines the lessons, how to teach them, the roles of the students and teachers, as well as expected outcomes.

The I’m Determined Project, a state-directed project funded by the Virginia Department of Education, focuses on providing direct instruction, models, and opportunities to practice skills associated with self-determined behavior. This project facilitates youth, especially those with disabilities to undertake a measure of control in their lives, helping to set and steer the course rather than remaining the silent passenger.

• Videos
• Assessments
• Tools
• Parent Resources

 

Casey Life Skills - Education Job Seeking Skills & Job Maintenance Skills

Virtual Job Shadow - Virtual Job Shadow is a comprehensive online video-based career exploration and planning platform, through the Utah State Board of Education Special Education Services, for you and the students you serve.  (Teachers contact Lavinia Gripentrog at lavinia.gripentrog@schools.utah.gov for account access.)  With VirtualJobShadow.com:

• Students can take assessments to identify careers of interest (including the O*Net Interest Profiler, O*Net Importance Locator, and more).  They can explore careers based on the assessment results using over 1,000 job shadowing and career advice videos, as well as job and college search tools.  They can also plan their next steps for the future.
• Educators can access student level reports and utilize the information for Individualized Education Program (IEP) development including transition planning, utilize printable "mini lessons" on career-readiness topics such as employability soft skills, financial literacy, and more.  Educators can also create custom lessons using FlexLessons.
• Below are tutorial links on VirtualJobShadow.com.  One is a 6 minute overview, while the other is a complete training tutorial.
  • VirtualJobShadow.com Features Overview
  • Complete Customer Training Tutorial 
  • VirtualJobShadow.com Training
  • VirtualJobShadow.com Grade Level Road Map
  • Guide for Job Seekers and Workers with a Disability 

Career OneStop - your source for career exploration, training & jobs - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. A proud partner of the  network.  English and Spanish

Roadtrip Nation - From video game designers to lawyers, sports journalists to STEM professionals, and everything in between, we’ve sought out untold stories and shared them. These stories form the basis of our career exploration products—including an educational curriculum, personalized online tools, video content, bestselling books, and live events. Together, these tools create a diverse and relevant collection of resources showing young people the vast scope of careers and possibilities.

My Future - My Future™ helps young adults plan their next steps in life by bringing together the most recently available information about colleges, careers and military service opportunities from the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education and Labor.
Developed by the Department of Defense, myfuture.com™ features career, college and military content, allowing users to explore all possibilities and gain insight into each option. In one comprehensive site, young adults can find unbiased, detailed information on more than 900 civilian and military career fields and over 7,000 accredited colleges. In addition to listing college admissions details, average salaries and employment trends, myfuture.com provides advice on everything from taking the SAT to interviewing for a first job to preparing for boot camp. Users can also find step-by-step planning tips and a robust tool to search careers, schools and military specialties. Designed for young adults at many different life stages, myfuture.com is meant to be a helpful resource for many years.