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Using Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies for Career Skills Exploration and Employment Skills Development

June Gothberg, Ph.D. Western Michigan University NTACT

Agenda

• Career Skills exploration and development
• Strategies for career/employment
• What are EBPP NTACT has identified?
• State support for career/employment
• Resources, resources, resources!

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Important Steps to Career Skills Youth Level

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• Help the youth explore the options – many never get the chance

to know what opportunities exist outside their world

• Use current data
• Give relevant assessments – think annually, think comprehensive
• Align documents, goals, and activities (IEP, IPE, ILP, PLCP)
• Learning styles
• Personality
• Work values
• Career Skills interest

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• Skill profiler
• Aptitude
• Gap analysis
• Academic assessment
• Functional assessment
• Work capacity/tolerance
• Motor skills/manual dexterity
• Assistive technology
• Behavioral assessment
• Situational assessment

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Example: Career Skills Guidance Washington resources 6th-12th grade

http://bit.ly/WAcskg

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Example: University of Oregon’s Employability Skills Survey

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Example: Montana’s Big Sky Pathway gap analysis tools

http://bit.ly/MTBSPGap

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• Validate youth voice – use it to facilitate the career choice process
• Just because they say they want to do something that seems

impossible or irrelevant, doesn’t mean you can’t use that to make a good plan

• Make school relevant!! - youths should see the clear link between

their program of study and postsecondary goals

• Take those “why do I have to do this” questions seriously
• Promote career certifications
• CTE certifications
• WorkKeys – National Career Skills Readiness Certificate

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Example: Michigan Dream Night

http://bit.ly/MIasppire

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Example: WorkKeys certification requirements

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• Include relevant people support
• Include parents
• Include and use school counselors
• Include and use vocational rehabilitation
• Include CTE and vocational education
• Explore using mentors (employers, college youths, peers)

Parents

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Example: I Have a Plan Iowa Parent Plan of Study Approval

http://bit.ly/IAPlanApproval

Parents

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Example: Autism Speaks Family Services Employment Toolkit

http://bit.ly/2dGwbnr

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• Create a career education continuum – create a schoolwide scope

and sequence to career exploration and development starting no later than early middle school

• Create courses specific to career planning
• Connect with your community – there is no better way to create
• pportunities for your youths than through relationships
• Educate your community about
• graduation pathways – what does a certificate mean?
• hiring youth and young adults with disabilities

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Example: Arizona’s K-12 youth level checklists

http://bit.ly/AZk12careercheck

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• Invite businesses and community groups to join the Transition

Council

• Join your local Chamber of Commerce - send representation
• Annual appreciation – provide meaningful recognition
• Provide ongoing support to businesses, youths, and families

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Example: Windsor Works Alliance (Colorado)

http://bit.ly/WorkAlliance

NTACT Taxonomy for Transition Programming 2.0

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http://bit.ly/NTACTtaxonomy

NTACT Five Main Employment EBPPs

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http://bit.ly/NTACTPinterest

NTACT Transition EBPPs NTACT EBPPs

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http://bit.ly/NTACTPinterest

NTACT RBP Employment Strategies

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Three research-based strategies to improve SA/SD

• Self-Advocacy Strategy (Van

Reusen, Bos, Schumaker, & Deshler, 1994 )

• Self-Directed IEP( Martin, Marshall,

Maxson, & Jerman , 1996)

• Whose Future is it Anyway?(

Wehmeyer, Lawrence, Garner, Soukup, & Palmer, 2004) Practice guides: http://bit.ly/NTACTEBP

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NTACT RBP Employment Strategies

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• Counseling
• Interagency collaboration
• Response prompting
• Self-management/job skills
• Simulated social skills
• Supported employment
• Targeted group

Practice guides: transitionta.org/researchpractices

• Self-determination
• Self-advocacy
• Self-directed IEP
• Community-based instruction
• Computer-assisted instruction
• Constant time delay
• Least to most
• Most to least
• One-more-than
• Task chaining
• Video modeling

NTACT RBP Employment Strategies

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NTACT Guidance

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http://bit.ly/NTACTCollabPartnerships

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NTACT Career Skills EBPPs

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What about Nebraska?

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Nebraska has great tools for career awareness/career interests!

http://bit.ly/NEtransitionguide

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Example: Nebraska’s example lesson plan

http://bit.ly/NElessons

1/17/17 10 O*Net Career Skills Exploration Tools

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http://bit.ly/OnetCareer

O*Net My Next Move

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http://bit.ly/OnetNext

O*Net My Next Move

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http://bit.ly/OnetNext

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Career Skills One Stop

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http://bit.ly/CSOneStop

Career Skills One Stop

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http://bit.ly/CSOneStop

Career Skills One Stop - Skills

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http://bit.ly/2COSskills

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http://www.myskillsmyfuture.org/

ODEP Skills to Pay the Bills

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http://bit.ly/2d882V7

Lessons in the Classroom:

MN Classroom Activities & Worksheet: Find a Job

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http://bit.ly/MNlessons

1/17/17 13 Lessons in the Classroom: Career Skills Plan Project Workbook (Glencoe)

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http://bit.ly/Careerworkbook

Job Readiness Lessons : RRTI

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http://bit.ly/RRTIJobReady

Lessons in the Classroom: Low Level

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http://bit.ly/2dcfRcX

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JJ's List – empowering youth and adults with disabilities http://bit.ly/jjsbusinesslist

Thank You!

June Gothberg june.gothberg@wmich.edu