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Young_Julie_Career Awareness:  Job Olympics

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Young_Julie_Career Awareness:  Job Olympics

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This is such a neat idea! In this video, you get to see a very different kind of job fair: a Job Olympics. There are several different "events", or stations, set up that showcase various job skills. Some of the skills are floral arranging, landscaping, scissor skills, interpersonal skills, and many more. Students get to compete in the areas they are most skilled and also get to learn and practice other skills throughout the event. This is a very creative way to involve not only students with special needs in high school, but other adults with special needs in the community.

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The Charlevoix Emmet Intermediate School Districts Special Education programs put on a very far reaching and quality job olympics event each spring. Hundreds of students from across Northern Michigan come for a fun and inspiring experience.

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Young_Julie_Career Exploration: Careers for People with Special Needs

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Young_Julie_Career Exploration: Careers for People with Special Needs

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This video isn't the most recent but it is still a really great look into a job for a person with Down Syndrome.  The video expresses the importance of having a good manager and a good trainer.  The individual also talks about how he was nervous at first and that it took some time for him to learn his job.  He gives a good example of what a job in a processing/packaging position looks like and it is with a large company. Teachers and students need to try and look outside the box for potential work experiences for students with special needs. Large companies and corporations may have many smaller opportunities with room for growth.

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Careers for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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Young_Julie_Career Preparation: Chicago Lighthouse Project - Interviews

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Young_Julie_Career Preparation: Chicago Lighthouse Project - Interviews

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The Chicago Lighthouse Project is a world-renowned social service organization serving the blind, visually impaired, disabled and Veteran communities. In this video, Sheila Perkins gives some good advice for job interview skills and resumes. As our students get older, they will need these crucial interviewing skills for future employment. It's important to also research information for all levels of disabilities.

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Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind

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Job Interview Tips For People With Disabilities

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THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE VICE PRESIDENT OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, SHEILA PERKINS, DISCUSSES JOB TIPS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

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This is a news clip from a story about a high school in New Jersey. The students in the Structured Learning program get real life work experience in a variety of places in the community. One of the places is in a nursing home facility. Students are able to do a multitude of tasks such as setting tables, rolling silverware, helping in the kitchen, and cleaning. I thought this was an "outside of the box" idea when thinking about places for students to search for employment.

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Program Gives Students with Special Needs Real World Job Experience

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Thornton_Cathryn_Career Exploration_Part 2 - Exploring Careers and Practicing New Skills

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Thornton_Cathryn_Career Exploration_Part 2 - Exploring Careers and Practicing New Skills

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This is a clip highlighting the experiences of a group of high school students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD who attended a two week residential career exploration program.  In the second phase of the program, students get the opportunity to job shadow careers that specifically interest them, in order to explore more about the realities of those careers.  According to this week's presentation, "new experiences often help us to adjust our expectations and refine our goals." By allowing students opportunities to experience multiple job shadowing scenarios, we are allowing them to adjust their interests and goals accordingly.

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Part 2 - Exploring Careers and Practicing New Skills

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Part 2 of the ACES (A Chance to Experience Success) video. ACES is a summer program at Keene State College in Keene, NH. ACES is a two week, residential, career exploration and independent living program for high school students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD.

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This video highlights a group of high school students with disabilities who spent their summer attending a camp specifically designed to give them real world experiences exploring a variety of career options. They took turns visiting different job sites that interested them, and learned about what the jobs they are considering are really like. According to this weeks presentation, the exploration phase is about moving past where interests are identified, to a phase researching more about career requirements and expectations. By attending this camp, they were given the opportunity to explore the requirements and expectations by having real life experiences.

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This is a fun resource I could see myself using during resource time in my Junior High School Classroom.  This video shows a group of young individuals exploring interesting and unusual career options.  As mentioned in this week's presentations "it's all about helping children learn that there are a variety of career options". I found this to be a fun way to teach about some of those careers.

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Thornton_Cathryn_Career Awareness_Disability Mentoring Day and Career Expo at Nesbit Elementary 

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Thornton_Cathryn_Career Awareness_Disability Mentoring Day and Career Expo at Nesbit Elementary 

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This video highlights a "Career Day" at an elementary school in Georgia.  The really cool thing about this career day is that all of the presentees are also Disability Mentors, meaning they are people with disabilities themselves, talking about their careers.  This is a great way this school district is getting kids thinking about their careers early, while also promoting acceptance of individuals with disabilities.  This is showing children with and without disabilities that a disability wont stop you from having a successful career, while making everyone aware of a variety of careers. According to Dr. George Tilson, "exposure precedes interest". By Exposing these children to these careers at an early age, we are giving them the opportunity to develop an interest.

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Shakyrah Christmas Dance & Last Year in Elementary School

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Disability Mentoring Day & Career Expo at Nesbit Elementary in Gwinnett County, GA

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Mentors with disabilities share their professional and personal successes with children from Nesbit Elementary School in Gwinnett County, GA. The "I Have a Dream: Creating Your Life Portfolio" program is part of a new disability mentoring day and career expo pilot program created by the Southeast ADA Center -- a project of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University -- designed to break down barriers and introduce students with and without disabilities to successful individuals with disabilities from the community.

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This Webinar is a a great resource to help teach your students how to optimize their experience in a virtual career fair.  I love the idea that we can use technology to help expose students in our classrooms to jobs all over the world.  All employers involved in this fair are specifically seeking individuals with disabilities as employees.  What a wonderful way to show our students a huge number of career opportunities available to them, without having to leave the comfort of our classrooms.  In the presentations this week, it was mentioned that students in rural communities often express an interest in agriculture, likely because it is all they have been exposed to in their isolated communities. A Virtual Career Fair could be an especially useful tool to help expose students with disabilities to a variety of careers, even if they might live in an area with seemingly limited resources.

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Bender Virtual Career Fair Webinar March 2016

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Webinar to Empower Your Students or Clients with Disabilities Quick tips on advising students or clients to achieve success at the fair. To register, or for more information on the March 15th Bender Virtual Career Fair visit www.careereco.com/events/disability.

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This video shows a classroom in which the teacher and students run a coffee business as part of their daily class. They explore different jobs within a coffee business and simulate a coffee business within their school. The students also interact within businesses in the community to help grow and run their business. Students are all involved in role playing, and community involvement as they explore and research different jobs and skills needed for working in a store or coffee business.

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This Special Ed Teacher's Real-World Lessons will Inspire You | Class Act

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Taylor_Jennifer_Career Awareness- Job Fair: Special Needs

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Taylor_Jennifer_Career Awareness- Job Fair: Special Needs

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This video highlights a job fair exclusively aimed at individuals with disabilities. This is an incredible resource for individuals with disabilities because they get exposure to job fairs and they also know that the employers present are seeking individuals with disabilities which is not often the case. Attending job fairs will help increase community awareness as well as interaction between students and adults in a professional role.

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NMSU Student Veterans Organization Rides For Homeless Veterans

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Center Offers Vocational Training for People

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New Mexico Department of Vocational Rehabilitation

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Career Fair Offers Options For People With Disabilities

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Many disabled members of the community are able and looking for work, but have a hard time finding jobs. The New Mexico Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, or DVR, hopes to help solve and bring attention to that problem during National Disability Employment awareness month.

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This video highlights a program called "Project Search," which is a 1 year work training transition program where students gain job skills by working an internship at a hospital in their community. The internship placements are individualized based on student strengths.

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Project Search: New Pathways for Young Adults with Disabilities

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Taylor_ Jennifer_Career Exploration- "Get the job...Keep the job!"

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Taylor_ Jennifer_Career Exploration- "Get the job...Keep the job!"

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This video shows acted out scenarios of good and bad practices while applying for and keeping a job. Also, the narrator gives specific reasoning as to why scenarios are positive or negative. This fits in with career awareness according to the Career Development Continuum because it helps students plan for the future when they need to interview, etc.

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This clip is an example of career preparation because, as explained on the Career Development Continuum from www.newwaystowork.org, students are "gaining work experience, education, and training" (p. 1). This clip highlights the Career Focus program in which students work on core academic skills such as budgeting, filling out job applications, and creating a resume, gain work experience in community settings as appropriate, and participate in work skills classes and career-related project-based learning within their high school. This also aligns with what Dr. Simonsen talked about in her presentation because even students who aren't necessarily going into the community are gaining skills and having experiences and training that will assist them in their selected careers. Some of the skills they are learning are what the assistant principal in this clip refers to as "soft skills", which we know many students with disabilities can find challenging. Teaching these skills in a work-related environment or mindset, such as was shown in this clip, can aid in transferring these skills to other work sites as students prepare for employment after high school.

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Spokane Public Schools Community Stampin

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Life Skills / Special Needs Music Program

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Life Skills Training Of Students By Dr Nivedita

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Difference in Special Education Students

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Career Focus provides real life skills at SPHS

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Shadle Park High School's Career Focus class provides special education students with skills to help them enter the workforce and become more independent after graduation. The school is always looking for business owners with job training opportunities for students. Please contact Crystal Lawson at CrystalL@spokaneschools.org for more information.

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This clip features a teacher and student from Pflugerville High School talking about the experiences students have with the job shadow program at Pflugerville High.  The teacher interviewed in this clip, Thomas Arellano, immediately points out that one of the main purposes of the job shadow program is to give students "real world experience of what a career is like", which aligns with what Dr. Simonsen said about what students learn about in the career exploration stage. She stated that students learn about job tasks, responsibilities, and environments for selected careers, which is exactly the kind of "real world experience" that Mr. Arellano refers to in this clip.  Similarly, the Career Development Continuum from www.newwaystowork.org describes career exploration activities as being designed to give students hands-on experiences in a workplace related to their career interests. The student interviewed in this clip, Samantha Evans, points out that she found the job shadow experience to be beneficial because it allows students to understand what the job they are shadowing is really all about, potentially saving students time and money later on by ensuring that the career they are thinking about pursuing is truly something they are interested in. This insight corroborates the idea of career exploration, in that through hands-on work experiences students can get an idea of what the job consists of in the "real world" and whether or not they want to continue pursuing that field as a career.

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Job shadow program gives Pflugerville High School students hands-on experience

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Although this clip and the featured career fair are titled "Career Exploration Day", I think this is an example of career awareness.  As Dr. Simonsen pointed out in her presentation this week, students in the career awareness stage learn about the world of work and a variety of careers.  The Career Exploration Day featured in this clip offers high school students an opportunity to meet people who work in fields they may find interesting, including manufacturing, law enforcement, and health care, to name a few. Students also have opportunities to see and use tools of the various trades represented at Career Exploration Day so that they might get an idea of the hands-on work that accompanies these various careers.  As highlighted on the Career Development Continuum from www.newwaystowork.org, career awareness activities are designed to help students gain an awareness of the careers/occupations that are available to them, as well as help them to understand the education and/or skills required for particular jobs, and to learn expectations of the workplace. By putting so many working professionals in one place for high school students to talk to, get information from, and ask questions of, I think this Career Exploration Day is a great example of a quality career awareness activity.

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Bridges Workplace Connection Career Exploration Day Brainerd Minnesota From the moment they step off the bus at the "Bridges Career Exploration Day", students are presented with a unique opportunity to meet with career professionals and educators who are ready to answer questions and help them investigate rewarding career options.

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This video shows how to complete various janitorial tasks. This video explains specifically how to complete tasks such as cleaning the restroom, collecting trash, and mopping.

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Here is a video which is specific about how to stock shelves. This video makes it so any student would be able to understand how to complete the task. This video would be used in conjunction with hands on practice, either at a grocery store or in the classroom.