Description. The Choosing Education Goals lesson package provides the structure and opportunity for students to develop satisfying personal lives and to spend their free time in safe, legal, healthy ways. It teaches students to identify and then express the personal free time skills, limits, interests, and to establish and choose personal goals to enhance postsecondary independent living outcomes.
Educators use this lesson package to teach students three sets of skills: (a) how to identify educational interests, skills, and limits, (b) how to identify educational opportunities, and (c) how to develop high school and postsecondary educational goals based on identified interests, skills, limits, mediated by available opportunities. Through the Choosing Education Goal process students develop their plan of study to present at their IEP meeting and for inclusion into educational plannign documents (i.e., IEP, ARD). This enables students to fulfill the IDEA requirement that a plan of study be completed at each annual IEP meeting. The last lesson provides students the opportunity to take what they learned and develop educational goals using the choosing goals process.
Documenting need. IDEA 2004 requires as a transition education component a postsecondary education goal and a Course of Study that details the classes and school experiences students need to attain their postschool goals.
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