Using Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies for Career Skills
Exploration and Employment Skills Development
June Gothberg, Ph.D.
Western Michigan University
NTACT
Agenda
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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
• 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
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Learning styles
• Academic assessment
Personality
• Functional assessment
Work values
• Work capacity/tolerance
Career Skills interest
• Motor skills/manual dexterity
inventories
• Assistive technology
• Skill profiler
• Behavioral assessment
• Align
documents, goals, and activities
(IEP, IPE,assessment
ILP, CDP)
• Aptitude
• Situational
• Gap analysis
• Align documents, goals, and activities (IEP, IPE, ILP, PLCP)
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Important Steps to Career Skills
Youth Level
Example: Career Skills Guidance Washington resources 6th-12th grade
http://www.k12.wa.us/SecondaryEducation/Career SkillsCollegeReadiness/Career SkillsGuidanceWA/Grade6.aspx
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Important Steps to Career Skills
Youth Level
Example: University of Oregon’s Employability Skills Survey
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Important Steps to Career Skills
Youth Level
Example: Montana’s Big Sky Pathway gap analysis tools
http://mus.edu/BigSkyPathways/BSPGap.asp
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Important Steps to Career Skills
Youth Level
• 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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Important Steps to Career Skills
Youth Level
Example: Michigan Dream Night
http://asppireofmidmichigan.com/
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Important Steps to Career Skills
Youth Level
Example: WorkKeys certification requirements
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Important Steps to Career Skills
Youth Level
• 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)
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Parents
Example: I Have a Plan Iowa Parent Plan of Study Approval
https://apps.iowacollegeaid.gov/marketing/docs/reviewandapproveplanofstudyparent.pdf
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Important Steps to Career Skills
System Level
• 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
opportunities 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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Important Steps to Career Skills
System Level
Example: Nebraska’s example lesson plan
http://www.education.ne.gov/NCE/c4c/PDFs/LessonPlans/22-PersonalLearningPlan.pdf
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Important Steps to Career Skills
System Level
Example: Arizona’s career continuum: Preschool-Grade 20
http://www.azed.gov/ecap/files/2012/02/asu-preparatory-academy-preschool-grade20-career-plan.pdf
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Important Steps to Career Skills
System Level
Example: Arizona’s career continuum: Preschool-Grade 20
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Important Steps to Career Skills
System Level
Example: Arizona’s youth level checklist
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Important Steps to Career Skills
System Level
• Connect with your community – there is no better way to create
opportunities for your youths than through relationships
• Educate your community about
• graduation pathways – what does a certificate mean?
• hiring youth and young adults with disabilities
• 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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Important Steps to Career Skills
System Level
Example: Windsor Works Alliance (Colorado)
http://www.weldre4.k12.co.us/departments/exceptional_youth_services/windsor_works_alliance
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NTACT Five Main Employment EBPPs
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NTACT Transition EBPPs
www.pinterest.com/transitionta
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NTACT EBPPs
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NTACT RBP Employment Strategies
Three research-based strategies to
improve SA/SD
• Self-Advocacy Strategy (Van
Reusen, Bos, Schumaker, &
Deshler, 1994 )
• Self-Directed IEP( Martin,
Marshall, Maxson, & Jerman ,
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• Whose Future is it Anyway?(
Wehmeyer, Lawrence, Garner,
Soukup, & Palmer, 2004)
Practice guides:
transitionta.org/researchpractices
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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
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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
Practice guides: transitionta.org/researchpractices
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NTACT RBP Employment Strategies
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NTACT Guidance
http://www.transitionta.org/sites/default/files/Partnership_Guide.pdf
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NTACT Career Skills EBPPs
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What about Oklahoma?
Oklahoma has great tools for career awareness/career interests!
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What about Oklahoma?
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What about Oklahoma?
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What about Oklahoma?
Launched on August 21, 2015
Supported by the OK Dept of CareerTech
Specific to Oklahoma
NO COST!
Users are able to:
•Develop career awareness
•Develop individual career plans
•Create an online portfolio
•Take assessments
•Explore careers
•Research and link to post-secondary schools
•Locate scholarships
•Set career goals
•Connect to business and industry
•Build a resume and cover letter
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O*Net Career Skills Exploration Tools
https://www.onetcenter.org/tools.html
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O*Net My Next Move
http://www.mynextmove.org/
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O*Net My Next Move
http://www.mynextmove.org/
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Career Skills One Stop
http://www.careeronestop.org/
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Career Skills One Stop
http://www.careeronestop.org/
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Career Skills One Stop - Skills
http://www.careeronestop.org/ExploreCareer Skillss/Assessments/skills.aspx
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Career Skills One Stop – mySkills
myFuture
http://www.myskillsmyfuture.org/
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Lessons in the Classroom:
MN Classroom Activities & Worksheet: Find a Job
https://www.mnprogramsofstudy.org/mnpos/toolkit/advisers/job-classroom.html
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Lessons in the Classroom: Career
Skills Plan Project Workbook
(MaGraw Hill)
http://glencoe.mheducation.com/sites/0078748283/youth_view0/career_plan_project_workbook.html
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Lessons in the Classroom: RRTI
http://www.rrti.org/documents/Supplementalhandoutswcoverpgrevised.pdf
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Lessons in the Classroom: Low Level
http://mnliteracy.org/tools/employment-readiness-curriculum
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Thank You!
June Gothberg [email protected]