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Post-secondary Planning

• Career and College Exploration Unit - developed by Dan Berardi
  • Introduction
  • Standards
  • Career interest survey
  • College readiness survey
  • College/career research project
  • Job application
  • Learning style survey
  • Mock interview
    • Eye contact (formative)
    • Friendliness (formative)
    • Posture (formative)
    • Posture and eye contact (formative)
  • Progress monitoring
  • Update/create resume

• Transitioning to life after high school (for all students) - developed by Caroline Krueger
  • Introduction
  • Options after high school
  • Career interest inventory
  • What does it take?
  • Pros & cons of college
  • Job applications
  • College applications
  • Resume
  • Mock interview
  • Summative assessment: Reflection

Life Skills

• Life Skills Self-care Unit - developed by Heather Cacioppo
  • Overview
  • Standards
  • Handwashing
    • Formative
    • Formative
    • Formative
    • Formative
  • Toothbrushing
  • Use the bathroom
  • Applying deodorant
  • Washing face
  • Using body spray
  • Brushing hair
  • Changing clothes

• Lifeskills Community Unit - developed by Erin Dyson
• Overview
• Standards
• In-class summative assessments
  • Reading maps
  • Grocery store item sort
  • Recipe shopping list
  • McDonalds math
  • Elapsed time tasks
• Community-based Instruction summative assessments
  • Grocery store
    • Grocery shopping activity
    • Unfamiliar item activity
      • Forgotten materials (formative)
      • Problem task cards (formative)
      • School community problems (formative)
  • Sandwich State Fair
  • Westfield Mall
    • Shopping and map reading
    • Waiting in line

• Community Experience - developed by Carol Alfus
  • Purchasing Items at Retail Stores
  • Conducting Banking Transactions
  • Returning Items for Refund
  • Utilizing Postal and Package Delivery Services
  • Using Public Transportation
  • Purchasing/Eating Meal at Restaurant
  • Utilizing Library Services
  • Utilizing Public Convenience Machines

Lower-level Geometry (two-year course)

• Unit one: Trigonometry - developed by Carole Kristensen
  • Matrix of standards and tasks
  • Similar triangles
  • Discovering trigonometry
  • Trigonometric functions
  • Inverse trigonometric functions
  • Angle of elevation/depression
  • Write your own word problems
  • Angle of the sun
  • Journal
  • Surveying a ropes course
  • Law of sines

   

• Unit two: Area - developed by Carole Kristensen
  • Matrix of standards and tasks
  • Tangrams
  • Circumference lab
  • Test on area
  • Architechture portion of unit -- See Portfolio

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