Next STEP Transition Course
23290-1 Work Development Lab
Credits/Length: 1.0/semester Course Description: The Work Development Lab consists of the Practical Assessment Education System or PAES lab. This program provides basic generalized vocational and life skills that relate to most careers and the skills needed for vocational training, placement and independent living. PAES is Performance Based Assessments of a student’s basic generalize work and life skills, work interests, work competitiveness, and work behaviors. PAES provides exploration through HANDS-ON experience providing real and meaningful career information and knowledge of what they can do. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Rotations 23253 Speak Up! Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: This curriculum is a self-advocacy curriculum. It covers the areas of self-advocacy, IEP education for students, and transition information/activities. The main goal of this whole unit is to empower our students and help them to start being good self-advocates. Each student should be able to run their meeting, know what their disability, and be using their advocacy skills by the end. For the IEP meeting, each child should be able to go over the IEP, make changes to it for the next year, and talk about transition information. 23212 Personal Finance Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: In this class, you’ll learn to earn, save, budget, spend, borrow, protect and give. This course will inform students how individual choices directly influence occupational goals and future earnings potential. Real world topics covered will include income, money management, spending and credit, as well as saving and investing. Students will design personal and household budgets utilizing checking and saving accounts, gain knowledge in finance, debt and credit management, and evaluate and understand insurance and taxes. This course will provide a foundational understanding for making informed personal financial decisions leading to financial independence. 23290 Work Place Safety Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: This course covers occupational safety and health and is designed to reducing occupational injuries and illnesses among youth. The curriculum presents essential information and career-readiness that are transferable across industries and occupations and will help students stay safe and healthy at work now and throughout their lives. This course is a pre-requisite for Work Based Learning Internship. 23397 Basic Skills Training Credits/Length: 1.0/semester Course Description: The Basic Skills Training course allows a student to have hands on, direct instruction in one focused career area. In this class the student will learn marketable job and life skills through career exploration. 23292 Career Exploration Credits/Length: 1.0/semester Course Description: Career Exploration introduces students to a variety of career fields, from business to information technology to security to sales and marketing. Students will explore a variety of career options both in the classroom and through various job shadowing experiences. The Job Shadowing component of this class is a short-term experience that is intended to help students explore a range of career objectives and begin to identify a career field or pathway and to start toward a career plan. In job shadowing, students make brief worksite visits to spend time with individual workers learning what knowledge, skills and education their jobs entail. This course is a pre-requisite for Work Based Learning Internship. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Job Shadow 23390 Intro to Internships Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: The curriculum and activities in the Intro to Internship have been specifically designed to support students before they begin their internship. Students will understand the purpose and importance of undertaking internships, best practices: how to be a successful intern and how to demonstrate professionalism in the work place. 23398-1 Work Based Learning Experience: Internship-Competitive Employment Prerequisite Courses: Employability Skills, Work Place Safety, Career Exploration, & Creative Job Search Credits/Length: 3.0/year -3 class periods Course Description: This course is a paid or unpaid work experience with independent placements within the community. Internships extend a career field or pathway beyond the classroom to outside the school, or that help a jobseeker reach their career goal through building experience. Internships generally involve participants working in professional settings under the supervision and monitoring of practicing professionals. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Work-Based Learning-Internship 23302-2 Fundamentals of Home Living-Enriched Credits/Length: 1.0/semester Course Description: This course is a combination of academic skills and daily living skills necessary to participate as independently as possible in the community. Life Skills is a blend of functional academics and daily living skills. The mission of the Life Skills program is to help students become functioning members of their own communities to the fullest extent possible through a functional blend of academics and life skills. Some of the skills addressed include: Personal Hygiene, Dressing and Clothing Care, Health Care, Cooking, Eating, Nutrition, Financial Management. Home Management and Home Safety. |
23320-2 Work Development Lab-Enriched
Credits/Length: 1.0/semester Course Description: The Work Development Lab-Enriched consists of the Prerequisite Skills Inventory and Let's TALK. The Prerequisite Skills Inventory is a tool to address Basic Skill Development and Transition requirements for students that need guided instruction. The skills are very basic and designed to allow the students to learn and develop skills they may not possess. Let’s TALK is an interactive program featuring hands-on learning at its best. Let's TALK teaches functional math, along with work and life skills in the following areas: Functional Math – Money, Measurement, Time, and Rulers, Work Words, and Signs. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Rotations 23309 Service Learning Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: This course gives the student the opportunity to grow academically, pre-professionally, personally and civically through participation in a service-learning experience. Students meet real needs in the community by applying knowledge from their classes. Students complete 10 hours of service or more per quarter and complete written reflections. The majority of work for this course will stem from the service‐learning experience. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Service Learning. 23214 Entrepreneurship: Business Plan Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: This course is designed to help students evaluate the business skills and commitment necessary to successfully operate an entrepreneurial venture and review the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship. In this course, students learn the basics of planning and launching their own successful business. They learn how to come up with new business ideas, attract investors, market their business, and manage expenses. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Entrepreneurship. 23380 Personal Learning Plan Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: A Personal Learning Plan is a person-centered plan that includes academic scheduling, career exploration, career and employment-related skills, community partnerships, college access, all forms of postsecondary training, and experiential learning opportunities. 23299 Employability Skills Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: This class focuses on the workplace readiness traits that are commonly expected skills that employers seek from most employees. Work readiness skills are a set of skills and behaviors that are necessary for any job. Work readiness skills are sometimes called soft skills, employability skills, or job readiness skills. No matter what technical skills a job may require, every job requires good social skills/interpersonal skills. This course is a pre-requisite for Work Based Learning Internship. 23396 Mentorship Credits/Length: 1.0/semester Course Description: Preliminary Job Placements with a positive role model. Mentoring is a professional relationship in which an experienced person (mentor) assists another (mentee) in developing skills and knowledge that will enhance the less experienced person’s professional and personal growth. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Mentorship 23283 Person Centered Planning Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: Person Centered Planning is an ongoing problem-solving process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. In person centered planning, groups of people focus on an individual and that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future. This class helps the student develop the skills and abilities needed to achieve these goals. 23291 Creative Job Search Credits/Length: 0.5/semester Course Description: This course covers topics under the Job Search “umbrella” that include Job Search Skills, Resume Writing, Interview Skills, and Professional Etiquette. The Job Search Skills course is intended to give you a solid beginning to this exciting time of self-exploration with finding a job. This course will guide you to information on how to target jobs and/or careers that are desirable and realistic for you and that fill a need for employers in today’s challenging job market. This course is a pre-requisite for Work Based Learning Internship. 23398-2 Work Based Learning Experience: Internship-Supported Employment Prerequisite Courses: Employability Skills, Work Place Safety, Career Exploration, & Creative Job Search Credits/Length: 1.0/semester Course Description: This course is an unpaid work experience with placements within the community with the assistance of a job coach. Internships extend a career field or pathway beyond the classroom to outside the school, or that help a jobseeker reach their career goal through building experience. Internships generally involve participants working in professional settings under the supervision and monitoring of practicing professionals. This class is an Experiential Learning Course: Work-Based Learning-Internship |
Electives
23302-1 Fundamentals of Home Living
Credits/Length: 0.5/semester
Course Description: The Fundamentals of Home Living is a combination of academic skills and daily living skills necessary to participate as independently as possible in the community. The mission is to help students become functioning members of their own communities to the fullest extent possible through a functional blend of academics and life skills.
23154 Post-Secondary counseling
Credits/Length: 0.5/semester
Course Description: This course provides students with counseling opportunities for enrollment in comprehensive transition or post- secondary educational programs at institutions of higher education. This includes gaining an awareness of the wide range of career pathway options and labor market realities and projections.
23308 DB101
Credits/Length: 0.5/semester
Course Description: DB101 Information Services course provides students with training events co-designed with our state partners including the following: The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) and Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), through their Pathways to Employment (PTE) partnership. DB101 helps students find answers to their questions, connect to community resources, and get help understanding your next steps.
23302-1 Fundamentals of Home Living
Credits/Length: 0.5/semester
Course Description: The Fundamentals of Home Living is a combination of academic skills and daily living skills necessary to participate as independently as possible in the community. The mission is to help students become functioning members of their own communities to the fullest extent possible through a functional blend of academics and life skills.
23154 Post-Secondary counseling
Credits/Length: 0.5/semester
Course Description: This course provides students with counseling opportunities for enrollment in comprehensive transition or post- secondary educational programs at institutions of higher education. This includes gaining an awareness of the wide range of career pathway options and labor market realities and projections.
23308 DB101
Credits/Length: 0.5/semester
Course Description: DB101 Information Services course provides students with training events co-designed with our state partners including the following: The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) and Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), through their Pathways to Employment (PTE) partnership. DB101 helps students find answers to their questions, connect to community resources, and get help understanding your next steps.