Keith+Dimmitt

a. Individuals examine their own aptitudes, interests, skills and abilities when exploring career possibilities. b. Individuals use technology to search for possible careers. c. Set realistic goals that match aptitudes. d. Engage in activities to improve skills that are relative to goals
 * //9th- 12th gr. Iowa Core belief/concept >> Demonstrate initiative and self-direction through high achievement and lifelong learning while exploring the ways individual talents and skills can be used for productive outcomes in personal and professional life //****// . //**
 * Enduring Understandings –**

a. What do students need to consider when seeking a job or career?
 * Essential Questions** –

b. Where can students obtain information about career opportunities?

c. Do students have post-secondary expectations that do not align or are not realistic with their skills or aptitudes?

a. Identify interests, abilities, aptitudes and skills.
 * Content / Skills** –

b. Communicate by using human relation skills.

c. Pursue / develop life-long learning.


 * Formative data --** __I Have a Plan Iowa__ / interest inventories 8th - 12th gr. and photos gathered using an __I-Flip camera__.


 * Summative** – Graduation and/or end of a specific grade portfolio using the __PhotoPeach__ slideshow.


 * Assessments Used via Technology** –

a. **I Have a Plan Iowa website**- This tool is to help narrow focus (over time) the interests and preferences in occupations. After exploring what the skills and aptitudes are for certain careers their choices will possibly change and be redefined. [|www.ihaveaplan.com]

b. **Survey Monkey** – to provide a platform of feedback from the students / classrooms via 4-5 survey questions. This way they have the option to find out what other students have discovered through the IHAP website interest inventory or other informal assessment (ie. IDEAS)

c. **Wiike** – This viewing platform is for all students to see what categories of occupations their fellow classmates are interested in and making responses to those interests. Certain groups of students may be arranged by occupations on the Wiike in order to make reflections / comments that will be archived over the span of several months or years. Students will continue to explore and engage in understanding those occupational interests by using job shadows, Career Days, community guest speakers, etc.

d. **Iowa Public Network Website -** This career development project is for 7-12th grade students, educators and parents. Through video, Web and interactive activities students are introduced to over 200 Iowa career professionals, projects and ideas that help them identify their interests and plan for their futures. The project includes video, discussion boards, and interactive activities. [|http://www.careers.iptv.org]


 * Iowa Core Lesson / Wiiki reflection -** Got bogged down early on (first day of assignment) when I attempted to try take too many parts of Iowa Core with this specific benchmark alignment. I really wanted to make this be a functional and meaningful exercise over time. Looked into another related core curriculum (from Ohio) in place to narrow my focus and gain another perspective from a textbook help, along with great assistance from Vicki Carr (GPAEA Reading Specialist) to get me steered in the right direction. Thanks again. I really have tried to keep this lesson focused by reminding myself to think about what the enduring questions that matter to our students with career explorations and how to make purposeful connections while using this new technology. Currently, too often what I see as educators we are just going through the motions of taking the interest inventories and doing nothing with that information. Also, so important by making this essential learning piece continuing to prompt and motivate curiosity/ inquiry. Using our new 2.0 Web tools, I’m hopeful that this area of inquiry will track our enduring questions. At least there are many more webtools that are part of my vocabulary now.By using the TPACK model when assisting teachers in secondary special education, I have more tools in the box now to contribute,.... when that need arises. I’m a bit concerned about how we may use the technology to support content when we there is not always enough time to teach the needed transition based content in a special and/or regular classrooms. All in all, as I become a better technical assistance provider I need to be patience over time with myself and my co-workers, because good ideas are not always adopted automatically. KD :-)


 * //5 various 2.0 WebTools for Secondary Special Education Transition Coordinators//** **>>>>** Possible day to day applications that have been or will be explored more within our service area /discipline or shared with secondary special education teachers.


 * __I-Flip Video Camera w/ tripod and USB port system__** **– []** A very portable / compact technology that we have already ordered through a Secondary Transition Grant that will be starting out to use interviewing special needs students in order to track their progress with activities tied to their IEPs. Application may improve feedback for students with overall quality in their own interview process and increase self reflections at various levels. An I - Flip Video Camera may be used by students to interview business supervisors and their settings via a job shadow or part of work-experiences in that student's community. These digital video clips may be downloaded onto a student laptop, computer lab or classroom computers to share with classmates / teachers.


 * __Moodle__** **–** **[]** We have already decided that we will be using a IA Depart. Of Education Moodle platform to certify teachers in their abilities to manage IEP writing and the understanding of 6 transition indicators from Indicator B13 Compliance that the IA Department of Education requires. It will be a handy check before compliance reviews or just any time to update new teachers or get veteran teachers remediated in specific areas. There is a video component that may be integrated with questions that help teachers reflect on the best practice for a particular indicator or video related to a particular method teachers may use.


 * __Branded Doodle__** **-** **[|www.doodle.com/about]** This could be an easy scheduling solution for our 5 GPAEA Transition Coordinators. We could get rid of most of our inefficient e-mail chains and save some time from back and forth replying. Doodle works both internally and with external partners and is independent of the calendar systems that are already in use, which is the case for our agency.


 * __SurveyMonkey-__** [|**SurveyMonkey***][|*****] has enough option to keep the free account users content which is what we would have to do in order to give it a try for agency usage. This may be a bit cumbersome for any of us to set up but is not out of the question. Currently, our Agency has it’s own survey system. But a classroom teacher could be independent of this support and pose their own questions for students to respond to. As with all of the survey applications SurveyMonkey lets users. create surveys with a variety of question formats and get their responses, but SurveyMonkey also lets their users customize their surveys as well. Users are able to change thank you pages, upload a logo, or use one of the preset themes. When collecting responses, there are three options: return by email, create a pop out or set the responses to come to your email. Most of the analyzing of results is done under the My Surveys tab, which serves as a central point to design, collect and analysis of your surveys.
 * __Skype__** **–** []may be used with our GPAEA secondary special education teachers to assist with individual iep writing and other areas of need that are related to specific student(s) that may even include interviewing students. We may also communicate internally with Skype in order to make that face to face meeting a bit more personal when there are travel issue . I have recently received a webcam and need to use it. Some of my AEA colleagues have portable webcam to so I will be able use my computer to have face to face conversations with not only those co-worker but friends, and family!


 * PhotoPeach--** http://photopeach.com/ This webtool would be helpful for students to create a slideshow (for their portfolio) that would give other students a overview of what they learned in their specific exploration of occupation/ career specific to them. They could elaborate with up to 30 slides (with free account) what special skills and aptitudes are needed, college or technical schools available and other useful information. Students could even set up a quiz format at the end of their slideshow that would enable other students to show they were viewing each other’s work and make comments about particular slide shows**.**