Increasing Student Ownership Throughout Their Transition Process in Episode 113

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The two goals of this episode is to guide students to take ownership throughout their transition process and guide teachers in the next steps to building a successful transition program.

First, it’s important to briefly recap Episode 111 that focused on the beginning steps. Past episode 111, highlighted the importance of making transition a priority, knowing your role as a Transition Teacher, scheduling time for Transition and finally involving the parents and the whole IEP team in the Transition process.
Students taking ownership allows for students to learn the following:
• Their role and responsibilities in their Transition process
• Students learn about their IEP
• Students learn to advocate for themselves

Students’ role involves focusing on student responsibility. However, student responsibilities are not clearly stated in the law, they are implied:
• Stated: Students are invited to their IEP meeting
• Implied: Students are “actively involved” or “lead” their IEP meeting
• Stated: School takes steps to ensure student’s preferences and interests are considered
• Implied: Students explore their wants, strengths, interests, and needs through many activities, assessments, and experiences in the areas of Employment, Training/Education, and Independent Living
• Implied: From their exploration, students write/contribute to their postsecondary goals

Next, student ownership involves recapping Episode 42, the Student’s Transition Responsibilities and being aware of the following:
• Identifying Post-Secondary Goals
• Active student participation in IEP Meetings
• Student accepts responsibility

In order for students to carry out their role/responsibilities in their transition process, they need to understand the IEP. Episode 106 covers the following:
• What does and IEP stand for?
• What does the IEP mean to them and why they need an IEP?
• How often they need to have an IEP?
• Expectations at an IEP meeting
• Preparing for the Transition IEP

In addition to understanding their IEP, students need to learn to advocate for themselves. Episode 14, allows for a brief recap of self-Advocacy skills that focuses on the following:
• Realistic view of self, open communication with self, understanding rights and responsibilities

As part of each episode of Transition Tuesday, we provide additional tips, teacher tools, and resources related to the topics we cover. For this week’s bonus, we are providing a rubric to help teachers in guiding students to take more ownership throughout their Transition process, which can be accessed by clicking this link - http://tensigma.org/episode113bonus

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We hope you enjoyed this episode and that the information about helping students to increase ownership throughout their Transition process is helpful to you and them.