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© TSBVI 1999 - 182 pages ($45.00) Order # 59420CEH
Note: This curriculum is sold unbound and printed on 3-hole punched 8 1/2 x 11 paper ready for a ring binder.

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This handbook represents the guidelines in the Career Education Program of TSBVI. This program provides learning opportunities that are experientially based, academically supported, and realistically focused on students' strengths and goal areas. The expected outcome is that students will be prepared to enter the job market with the ability to demonstrate good work habits, set realistic goals, demonstrate basic SCANS skills, and specific skills training in various job clusters.
The handbook describes transition planning, the role of job coaches, planning and assessment, and courses included in the Career Education Program at TSBVI. It also features teaching units for some job clusters.

Many necessary forms are included:

• Work Assessment Plan
• Work Training Plan
• Cooperative Work Plan
• Work Behavior Evaluation
• Personal Transition Profile - Interview Guide
• Work Stipend Incentive
• Career Portfolio: Student Interview, Parent Interview, Student Profile, General Employability Competencies

This handbook is sold unbound and printed on 3-hole punched 8 1/2 x 11 paper ready for a ring binder. The forms included are permitted to copy.

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Contents of Career Education for Applied Academics

Overview

• Mission Statement
• Philosophy
• Expected Student Outcomes
• The Career Education Program at TSBVI
• Transition Planning
• The Role of Job Coaches

Planning and Assessing

• Planning for Student Placement
• Ongoing Assessment
• Forms to be Used by the Job Coaches
• Transition Planning

Instruction

• Integrated Academics:
  • Intro. to Work
  • Exploring Occupations in Health Care
  • Exploring Massage Therapy
  • Exploring Occupations in Horticulture
  • Intro. to Tool Use
  • Exploring Occupations in Hospitality Services
  • Exploring Occupations in Offices
  • Issues in Transition
  • Personal Skills Development
  • Intro. to Health Science Technology
  • Health Science Technology II (Massage Therapy Cert. Program)
  • Keyboarding
  • Technology Applications for the Visually Impaired
• Work Experience
• Examples of Students' Programs
• Summer Programs
• Postsecondary Programming
• Why Are SCANS Skills Integrated in the Career Education Program?
• Why Are Social Skills Integrated in the Career Education Program?

Appendix

• Job Bank
• Glossary
• References
• Resources for Additional Information
• Career Education Department Programmatic/Team Oriented Goals

Forms

• Work Assessment Plan
• Work Training Plan
• Cooperative Work Plan
• Work Behavior Plan
• Personal Transition Profile - Interview Guide
• Work Stipend Incentive
• The Process of Planning Your Future Begins Now!
• Personal Vision/Personal Goals
• Career Portfolio

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