Describe the implications of a life-skills curriculum. Identify domain areas and embedded skills as they apply to elementary school students.

1. Life Skills Academy
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PowerPoint by….Brenda Mast 2007

2. Module A: Life Skills and Community-Based Training
for Elementary and Middle School Students
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Describe the implications of a life-skills curriculum.
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Identify domain areas and embedded skills as they
apply to elementary school students.
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Describe how community-based training coincides
with inclusion.
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Identify domain areas and embedded skills as they
apply to middle school students.

3. Module B: Self-Determination Skills
B-T1
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Describe how to help students conduct self-analyses.
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Describe how to present choices to students and encourage choicemaking.
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Demonstrate the use effective communication skills when coaching
students.
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Demonstrate how to coach students in the use of effective
communication skills.
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Demonstrate how to encourage students’ exploration of interest areas.
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Demonstrate how to support students in their efforts to set goals, create
plans, solve problems, identify and access resources, and make
decisions.

4. Module C: Life Skills and Community-Based Training for High
School and Transition Students
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Define domain areas and embedded skills for high school and
transition students.
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Describe a person-centered planning process and how it
determines what students are taught.
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Carry out IEP-based instruction in community settings.
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Define transition.
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Identify forms, agencies, and supports necessary for transition
and how to access them.

5. Module D: Vocational Skills and
Job Coaching
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Define the rationale for providing vocational instruction.
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Identify formal and informal vocational assessments.
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Describe the process of job development.
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Conduct a job site analysis, ecological inventory, task analysis, and
discrepancy analysis.
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Demonstrate job matching procedures, modifications, and adaptations.
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Identify the embedded skills necessary for successful job performance.
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Identify natural supports for stability and the maintenance of jobs.

6. Skills Transition
Elementary
School
Middle
School
Life
High
School

7. Module A: Life Skills and Community-Based Training
for Elementary and Middle School Students

Describe the implications of a life-skills curriculum.

Identify domain areas and embedded skills as they
apply to elementary school students.

Describe how community-based training coincides
with inclusion.

Identify domain areas and embedded skills as they
apply to middle school students.

8. What is a Life-Skills Curriculum?
A-T3
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When you hear “Life Skills,” what do you think of?
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What type of skills are Life Skills?
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Why teach Life Skills?
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Is a Life-Skills curriculum an addition to the regular
curriculum?
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Where is a Life-Skills curriculum taught?