1. YTP Instruction

2. Instruction
Two aims:
To develop instructional options based on the student’s postsecondary employment goal
To provide YTP students opportunities to learn skills that enable them to live, work, and learn independently in their communities.

3. Transition Specialist
Collaboration
Student & Family
Transition Specialist
Special Educator
General Educator
Administrator
Employer
Agencies – VR, DD
Others

4. Instruction

5. Developing the IEP Transition specialist Coordination of
Invited
Make an effort to attend the IEP
Coordination of
Post-secondary Goals
Present Levels
Preferences
Interests
Needs
Strengths
Transition Services
Provides Input
Age-Appropriate Transition Assessments
Post-Secondary Goals
Present Levels
Preferences
Interests
Needs
Strengths
Transition Services
Instruction
Community experiences
Adult Objectives
Employment
Daily Living Skills

6. What to Teach
Based on the youth’s measurable postsecondary goals in three areas:
Training / education
Employment
Independent living skills where appropriate
Always in the context of preparing a youth for competitive integrated employment.
Where is the student going….

7. What knowledge, behaviors, and skills does this student need to learn in order to…
Enroll in and persist in postsecondary education or vocational education, continuing or adult education to reach his employment goal?
Obtain and maintain competitive integrated or supported employment?
Participate in adult services, and live independently or participate in his or her community?

8. What to Teach
General work readiness skills are basic knowledge, behaviors, and skills needed for most jobs
Occupation specific knowledge, behaviors, and skills are specialized and dependent on a specific job

9. What to Teach Plan Backward Work Forward
Self-Determination and Self Advocacy:
“the ability to make choices, solve problems, set goals, evaluate options, take initiative to reach one’s goals, and accept consequences of one’s actions.” (Rowe et al., 2014).
Plan Backward
Work Forward

10. What to Teach

11. What to Teach No YTP Curriculum
Functional academics – reading for information, money management, and writing in daily life;
Vocational – general work readiness skills and specific occupation skills for the worksite
Independent living – washing clothes, and securing a place to live,
Personal/social skills – communication, and appropriate worksite behaviors,
Self-determination/self-advocacy – setting and monitoring of goals, making decisions.

12. When and Where to Teach Mentor Program Job Club YTP Class
Independent Living Program
School-Based Business
Before school
During school
After school
On school grounds
In the community
On the job
On the bus

13. How to Teach Instruction: Evidence-Based Practices Action
Specific Plan
Instructional objective
Monitoring
Evidence-Based Practices
Instructional strategies used with individual students to help them learn specific knowledge, behaviors, or skills.
Shown to be effective based on high quality, experimental research.

14. NTACT: www.transitionta.org

15. TABLE 3: Essential Features of Instruction
POSTSECONDARY EMPLOYMENT GOAL:
YTP students’ instruction in academic, vocational, independent living and personal social areas is based on meeting each student’s postsecondary employment goal.
SELF-DETERMINATION:
YTP instruction emphasizes goal setting, problem solving, self-determination skills, so students can make their own decisions and direct their own futures.
INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES:
To prepare YTP students to live and work independently in their community, they receive instruction in academic, vocational, independent living, and personal-social areas tied to their postsecondary employment goal.
SYSTEMS CHANGE:
Instructional strategies, formats, an/ or curriculum have been modified within the existing school structure to accommodate students’ transition needs as a result of the implementation of YTP instructional services.
FAMILY INVOLVEMENT:
Families are the first instructors. Finding ways to involve families leads to positive post-school outcomes for youth participating in the YTP.