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Expanding Career Options through Universal Design for Learning (ECO-UDL)
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Key Players ________________________ • Lindsay A. Harris, Ed.S. - Project Supervisor
PHILLIPS Programs ~ Annandale School
• Lynn R. Dowd, Ed.S., CVE - Certified Vocational Evaluator (CVE), Careerworks, Inc.
• Frances G. Smith, Ed.D, CVE - UDL Consultant/ CVE VDOE's Training & Technical Assistance Center Virginia Commonwealth University
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It all started on a napkin…
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Shared Philosophies _____________________________
• All individuals can learn
• All individuals have worth and can contribute to society
• All individuals have the potential to work
• Work contributes to a quality of life
• All individuals have a right to choice, including employment
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Shared Philosophies _____________________________ • Career Assessment
contributes to an individuals understanding of themselves and their world of work
• All human assessment should be humanistic and holistic.
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Shared Philosophies _____________________________
• UDL facilitates access to and participation by all who wish to engage in vocational evaluation and career assessment services.
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UDL and the Career Assessment Process
What Do We Know
What Do We Want To Find
Out
What Did We Learn
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Universal Design for Learning
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What is UDL? _______________________
http://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=pGLTJw0GSxk
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It begins with Neural Networks
Recognition
Strategic
Affective
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• Multiple Means of Representation ▫ To increase recognition
• Multiple Means of Expression ▫ To expand strategic output
• Multiple Means of Engagement ▫ To enhance involvement
The 3 Principles of UDL
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Career Assessment
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Career Assessment a working definition
Any process of measurement which
• is used to identify individual characteristics and education, training, and placement needs;
• contributes to the career planning process and;
• provides the individual with insight into their career potential.
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Career Assessment for Transition the outcome
• should influence the student and their team in day to day curriculum, and
• have implications for career choice.
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VECAP
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30th IRI A New Paradigm for Vocational Evaluation: Empowering the VR Consumer through Vocational Evaluation
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Assess for Success 2ed Sittlington, et. al.
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Congruence
Congruence = Success
Strengths and
needs, interests,
abilities, self-
awareness
Adult ecologies are
diverse (jobs, training
programs, post-
secondary education)
Congruence can be facilitated by
the identification of appropriate
services and supports
Student
Work
Ecology
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This project: ECO-UDL Expanding Career Options Through UDL
Paradigm Shift: UDL provides solutions/supports to student’s
learning needs overcoming barriers to employment
increasing congruence/success on the job
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UDL
I H
Student
Work
Ecology
ECO-UDL
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Assessment Process Sources of Information
Student Student Interview
Parent Interview
Teacher Interview/Team
Meeting
Assessment of Interests & Preferences
(Envision Your Career, Career
Priorities Profile)
Career Exploration
(ACI Net Videos)
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Tyler
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Tyler’s Interview
• No favorite classes in school
• Liked EFE at Fire Station (due to setting rather than job duties)
• Appropriately declined to discuss his disability
• Relies on Mom & one of his teachers for support
• Not much insight into learning style preferences
• Uses computer at school – not much at home. Uses mom’s cell phone for calls does not have one of his own.
• Likes spending time playing with his dogs and playing video games
• Wants to learn to drive.
• Wants to “go where I am needed.”
Student Student Interview
Parent Interview
Teacher Interview/Team
Meeting
Assessment of Interests & Preferences
Career Exploration
• 19 Questions
• Covers work experience, school experience,
leisure, learning style, disability awareness,
strengths/needs, family, transportation, use
of technology, personal goals
• Offered advance organizer
• Able to respond via interview or in writing
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Tyler’s Team Meeting
• Equivocal results on interest assessments completed to date (Virginia View)
• Likes being outside and by himself
• Spends free time in class searching trucks, busses & army surplus on Internet
• 3rd grade reading level
• Needs routine, difficulty with executive functioning
• Perceptual difficulty
• Difficulty using technology
• Low sustained effort on tasks
• Easily fatigued
• Low body awareness
• Doesn’t verbalize difficulty, doesn’t look for the next thing, may take easy route
• Likes to please
• Can be bossy to others
Student Student Interview
Parent Interview
Teacher Interview/Team
Meeting
Assessment of Interests & Preferences
Career Exploration
• Use of organizer that addresses Interests,
Preferences, Academic Performance,
Talents/Skills, Strengths and Needs in the three
UDL Networks
• Team Discussion format
• Included review of progress reports on the
community based work experiences he has
participated in
• Included student portfolio review
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Tyler’s Parent Interview
• likes daily living class – dislikes any class involving sitting down and learning.
• talked most about working at the food bank
• enjoys socializing with his neighbors, volunteering with local rescue squad
• does household chores – laundry, mail, taking out trash, yard work
• greatest need to develop appropriate social boundaries
• likes being in charge
• very literal, does best with short directions, repetition
• important for Tyler to understand “why” of directions
• goal – “be independent – do things on his own in a safe, appropriate way” (group home, work, socially active, taking care of himself)
Student Student Interview
Parent Interview
Teacher Interview/Team
Meeting
Assessment of Interests & Preferences
Career Exploration
• 15 questions addressing school interests,
leisure interests, student challenges, impact of
disability, learning style, technology use,
transportation, parent goals for student.
• Parent contacted by phone and email
• Given choice of response formats (phone
interview, or completing written form)
• Provided with advance organizer via email.
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Tyler’s Interests & Preferences
• used Envision Your Career with
modified work sheet
• R I S – Realistic & Investigative
Farm Machine Operator
Stable Attendant
Veterinarian
Kennel Manager
Ambulance Driver
Dog Groomer
Farm Equipment Mechanic
• comments: "I love pets.”, “I hate blood", "hate cooking" and does not want to do "anything dangerous." Tyler also stated, "any job that involves walking - not for me."
• Item analysis of high interests
Livestock Yard Supervisor
Veterinary Livestock Inspector
Veterinarian
Preschool Teacher
Student Student Interview
Parent Interview
Teacher Interview/Team
Meeting
Assessment of Interests & Preferences
Career Exploration
• Envision Your Career (EYC) - used to
measure interests (regular or modified
worksheet) – administered one on one –
reactions recorded
• Expansion on Holland Code with other related
jobs using SDS Jobs Finder
• Item analysis of EYC responses
• Career Priorities Profile – used to measure
temperaments & preferences
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Tyler’s Community Based Career Exploration
Activities
SY 2009 –2010
Fairfax County Fire Department:
Safety Division
Preparing Materials for Distribution
SY 2010 – 2011
Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center
Variety of task involving organizing and maintaining equipment
Outside Career Exploration:
Volunteers with the Purcellville Fire Dept.
Student Student Interview
Parent Interview
Teacher Interview/Team
Meeting
Assessment of Interests & Preferences
Career Exploration
• Community Based Career Exploration Activities
• Use of videos from America’s Career
Information Network www.acinet.org
• Discussion
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Determine Potential Career Pathways
• Use O*Net www.onetonline.org to delineate job/duties
Demonstrated
Expressed Tested/Surveyed
• Triangulate data re: student
career of interest (expressed,
tested, manifest) using all
sources of information
(individual interview, team
meeting, parent interview,
assessment results,
career exploration).
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Career Learning Needs & UDL Support Checklist
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Career Learning Needs & UDL Support Checklist
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Career Learning Needs & UDL Support Checklist
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Is there an app for that?
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The
Learning
Ecology
Congruence
Matrix
ECO - UDL
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TYLER at WORK
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Joe
Recognition Network:
Not cued into the larger environment, sees one need and focuses solely on that
Strategic Network:
Too fast of a work pace. Afraid that the work won’t get done
Affective Network:
Problem Solving is difficult
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Is There An App For That?
Picture Scheduler & VoCal
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The Social Mentoring Space
• Career Coaching through a social network site
• www.Ning.com
• Having a
Social Contract
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Lessons Learned: Multiple Perspectives
• Blending of Viewpoints is beneficial • Report Format - Understandable by end users • UDL Learning Matrix - So much info. to represent - Simple is better (KISS)
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• Selecting an app
- learn a few well
• Learning the individual apps
- no manuals
- time consuming
- use millennium mentors
- we have included some links on our website
• Not every dream job was available
- look at work skills individual wants to
use
Lessons Learned: Implementation
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• Systems change took time
- Job roles and habits are to break
- Student enthusiasm very powerful
- Keep searching for the cheerleaders
• Technology is evolving and places new demands on policies and practices
Lessons Learned: System Change
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Lessons Learned: Positive Surprises
• Kids were motivated by using the technology
• Intuitive nature of technology and connection to learning
• Students problem solving their work
• Students used technology to a purposeful goal
• Supportive Business Community
• Families explored increased technology use at home
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Ongoing Collaboration
• Continue to work together and learn from each other
• http://phillipsprograms.pbworks.com
• Dialogue to share success and challenges
• Continue to add work needs and technology solutions
- devices
- software
- apps
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KWL and Q/A?
What Do We Know
What Do We Want To Find
Out
What Did We Learn
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If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
~ Thomas Edison