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10 Vocational Tasks for Any Classroom

As students get older, it’s important to include more exposure to vocational and transitional tasks that will serve them well in the future.

These types of tasks give students practice with everyday experiences that they will need to learn to navigate on their own, or with limited assistance. Providing this practice while in the safety of the school environment can build students’ confidence and comfort with those everyday life tasks.

We asked the veteran teachers in Mrs. D’s VIPs Facebook group to share some of their favorite transitional/vocational tasks for any classroom or age.

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Top 10 Vocational Tasks for Any Classroom

While the tasks listed below can be used in any classroom, they are especially beneficial for high school students as they begin to transition out of the public school system.

1. Mock Interviews

Job interviews are an essential part of life. Have students take turns interviewing one another in mock job interviews. To make them more realistic, have students create a resume beforehand and “interview” for their dream class job.

2. Filling Out Job Applications

If you have never filled out a job application before, it can be a daunting task. Practice filling out mock job applications, so students know what to expect when they apply for a job.

3. Write a Resume

Every student should leave school knowing how to write a resume. Use templates to guide students in creating theirs and show them where to find free templates that they can use once they graduate.

4. Reading Recipes

If students want to eat more than fast food, it’s essential to know how to read a recipe. Cooking in the classroom is a great way to make this happen. You can find lots of visual recipes here , and learn more about cooking in the classroom here .

Understanding the abbreviations for measurements, having a visual idea of what the difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon is, and how mixing up measurements can make the recipe go awry is an integral part of being able to care for oneself. Following the directions in order is another crucial step to emphasize.

5. Reading Medicine Labels

While some may take this skill for granted, helping students to understand how to read a medicine label for both prescription and over the counter medications is a vital skill. They need to know the dosage, the time between dosages, and the precautions to take while using the medicine. 

6. How to Read a Menu

Everyone loves going out to eat, but if you don’t know how to read a menu, it can be a challenging endeavor.

Practice having a restaurant in your classroom or take your students on a field trip to a restaurant in town. Teach them how to find the different sections of the menu and how to understand the pricing.

7. How to Read Game Directions

If they don’t know how to read and understand the directions to play new games, chances are that they won’t try them or won’t play games at all.

Gather a variety of different directions from games that are appropriate for their age and help them read through them to understand how to play. The best part? You can test their understanding by having a class game day! 

8. Reading Directions to Places

With the reliance on GPS, special education students are not the only ones who have trouble understanding how to read directions to different locations using a good ole map.

Help them read a map and follow the step-by-step directions that can be printed out.

9. Understanding Public Transportation Schedules and Fares

If they don’t have cars, public transportation will most likely be your students’ mode of transportation. Teach them how to read a bus or train schedule and understand the amount of money they will need to pay as the fare. Take a field trip to a local destination using the mode of transportation studied and let the students plan the route!

10. Addressing Envelopes

Snail mail may be less popular than it used to be, but students should still know how to address an envelope. Let students practice addressing envelopes to themselves and then mailing them. You can find a few activities to practice addressing envelopes here .

Visit the post office for a unique field trip experience to see the process from start to finish.

What are some of your favorite vocational/transitional activities to do with students? Share them with us in the comments below or in our  Facebook group !

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Vocational Skills for Special Education

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Special education is designed to prepare students for life beyond the classroom setting. The teaching of vocational skills is intended to set up the student for success after secondary education. Through vocational skills training, students will learn how to prepare for a job, find a job, apply for a job and excel at a job.

Pre-Vocational Skills for Students with Disabilities

From as early as elementary school, a special needs student is preparing for future employment by learning pre-vocational skills. These job-readiness skills help students to focus on the tasks at hand, use their time to their benefit, interact with fellow students and faculty and follow directions.

Pre-vocational skills for students with disabilities include:

• Time management
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking
• Personal hygiene and appearance
• Responsibility and integrity
• Attitude and demeanor

Vocational Skills for Students

By the time the student has reached his final years of high school, he should have established a good set of vocational skills. Vocational skills examples include:

• Work readiness
• Interview and job search skills
• Social and communication skills
• Task analysis
• Career choice

Beyond Vocational Skills

Once a person with special needs or disabilities is hired, she will be trained for the position, or she will train in a vocational school to excel in a chosen career field. Before someone slips the application into the mail or across the desk or counter, she should have been working on the personal skills that will make her an ideal candidate for the job she hopes to snag.

Vocational skills for special needs students can vary depending on what industry they hope to enter. Any position that requires the employee to interact with the public or clients will expect the employee to dress accordingly and present herself in a helpful, pleasant and informative manner. The more a special needs student can practice personal skills, such as greeting strangers appropriately and maintaining eye contact, the greater her chances of being hired.

Industries to Consider

Students with disabilities can offer a valued set of skills in a wide variety of industries, from retail to clerical. After students with special needs graduate from high school or reach the age to legally work, they should consider which industry they would prefer. If they have a penchant for fashion and folding, a retail job may be a perfect fit. Someone who is adept at arranging and sorting may find a clerical position to be highly rewarding.

Retail Skills for Employment

Retail industry jobs may require the employee to button shirts, fold towels or large items, match and sort bundles of clothing and arrange them by size. A vocational skill a special needs student can hone before applying is to learn the jargon of the industry and to practice basic requirements of the position, such as buttoning, hanging and arranging clothing.

Clerical Position Readiness

Vocational skills for clerical positions include stuffing and sealing envelopes, stapling and sorting packets of papers, folding paper neatly into halves and thirds, filing by a numerical and alphabetical system, labeling envelopes and preparing them for the mail.

Food Service Fundamentals

The food service industry requires its employees to sort, fold and bag napkins and utensils, be able to count out change, set a table or tray and arrange boxing or bagging materials among other food service tasks.

Jobs in the Grocery Industry

Students set on working in the grocery retail industry should be prepared to sort hard and soft items into different bags, separate cold and hot products, stock the shelves, open and tear down boxes and clean up wet and dry spills. This can be a physically challenging job involving a lot of lifting and standing.

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Vocation & Life Skills Lab Tour

July 11, 2021 by Fiona

Hello there and welcome! I work at a non-public school k-12 + transition, moderate/severe special education with a focus in life skills.  We are fortunate enough to have space to house a vocation & life skills lab that we share between the middle school, high school and transition classrooms.  It’s not a very big room, but I maximized the space to fit in as much as possible!  Each classroom is able to schedule a 30 minute time twice a week in this little room to work on IEP goals, hands on vocational skills and small group activities.  It’s like a library but with adapted resources! Let’s dive in!

VOCATION LAB CHOICE BOARD

I decided to put this choice board up in the Voc Lab because I noticed staff and students kept resorting to the same activities every time they came in here, and because, well, visuals just make life easier, and staff need visuals too!

The organization is sometimes intimidating to others. I can have all of the pretty labels and task boxes in the world, but sometimes no one wants to ruin what looks pretty and perfect, and it can be overwhelming when there is an abundance of activities. So providing a giant life skills activity choice board helps alleviate some of that uncertainty and confusion, and increases engagement in more activities!

ADAPTED BOOKS & SOCIAL NARRATIVE SHELVES

It’s hard to find age respectful books that are for lower level readers, so I made a bunch I downloaded from Teachers Pay Teachers! This adapted book shelves are IKEA photo frame shelves. The best part about these shelves is that you can see what books are available.  Students can read the books while they are in the vocation lab, or check them out for classroom use similarly to a library.

Browse adapted books & social narratives here .

CABINET GROCERY STORE

I filled this cabinet with empty containers I had been saving up then put price tags on each item.  This classroom “grocery store” is great for prepping students on their shopping or vocational skills, and if you have students that aren’t quite ready to go off campus, this is the perfect way to bring the grocery store to you.  Students can practice reading food nutrition labels, finding items on a shopping list, sorting groceries by different categories, bagging activities, stocking shelves, money math….and much more!

If you don’t have much room in your classroom, you can even do this on a small book shelf as well, especially for students that might get overwhelmed by too many grocery items!  Click here to shop classroom grocery store items on Amazon (affiliate link) .

One of the activities in that cabinet was bagging groceries. Whether your students want to work at a grocery store or not, it is still a great life skill to have for when they have to bag their own groceries since many stores have self checkout now!  With this activity, student can sort out foods that were light & fragile, versus heavy & sturdy, by different categories (eg. Frozen foods, canned foods, Cleaning products, Raw products…etc).

Once they’ve got that step down, here are some ideas for bagging groceries:

• GIVE A FEW SIMILAR ITEMS THAT WOULDN’T REALLY MATTER IF YOU PLACED AT THE BOTTOM OR TOP TO PRACTICE FILLING A BAG SPACE EFFICIENTLY.
• PUT A FEW HEAVY & LIGHT ITEMS (SORTED INTO PILES ALREADY) AND PRACTICE WITH ONE BAG.
• GIVE STUDENT A FEW ITEMS IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES (SORTED INTO PILES ALREADY)
•  PUT GROCERIES IN A PILE, AND LET STUDENT SORT OUT ON THEIR OWN BEFORE BAGGING.
• ADD MORE GROCERY ITEMS, CATEGORIES, AND BAGS.
• TIMED BAGGING
• BAGGING COMPETITION
• MOCK GROCERY STORE – SIMULATE A GROCERY SHOPPING EXPERIENCE BY PRACTICING CUSTOMER SERVICE, MAKING A TRANSACTION, AND BAGGING ITEMS.
• Download visuals & resources for this activity for FREE here .

You can find the bagging stand and shopping baskets on Amazon here (affiliate link) .

INDEPENDENT WORK STATIONS

What would be your dream office view? I wanted this independent work station to be as realistic and functional as possible (swipe to see before), so I made it look like an office!  We fortunately have a poster printer here on campus, but you can buy this exact poster and a variety of other scenes on Amazon (affiliate link) .

Keep in mind, this may be too distracting for some students so a plain work station is totally fine too (we have a second work station next to this office themed one)

TASK BOX, TASK CARD, FILE FOLDER ORGANIZATION

This is the main wall of activities & tasks! If I had a bigger room, I would organize it a bit differently to be more like centers, because to be honest, the large wall of different activities is a bit overwhelming at first, but I have to work with what I’ve got!

View a highlight reel on Instagram of what’s inside these boxes.

Task boxes are a great way for students to work on a specific hands on skill. What I love most about task boxes is that it is easier to get most students to buy into participation. There’s just something more fun, motivating and concrete about “finishing a box” rather than “finishing an activity or lesson”. But of course, it all depends on the student.

Browse over 150 life skills & vocational skills task cards here .

It’s up to the teachers and how they want their students to spend their time in here, whether it’s large or small group instruction, or independent work. If the students participate in independent work, each task box is numbered and the student is given a set of numbers on their schedule to complete. 

Check out task card organization containers on Amazon (affiliate link) .

GARMENT RACK & RECYCLING

During this tour, I’ve been showing you a lot of things that might be pretty to look at, but it is important to remember that IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PRETTY, AS LONG AS IT’S FUNCTIONAL!! Don’t get intimidated or discouraged by many of the things you see on social media (including the things I post).

If you want to label and organize everything, great, if you don’t, YOU DO YOU! So here is a great vocational & organization use of a clothing rack and recycle sorting bins. Not only do we use this rack to practice motor skills for hanging clothes, but it also holds extra dress shirts & pants that students can change into for their off campus jobs. (Job coaches also have their polos on here too). Then once a week we take these clothes (and items from other classrooms) to the laundry mat.

We also head to the recycle center once a month or so, so staff and students can sort their recycling in here as well!

This clothing rack was made in a wood workshop by a previous class, but you can find them at many stores! Check out this garment rack from Amazon (affiliate link) .

INTERACTIVE BULLETIN BOARD

Bulletin boards are great for putting up pretty things to look at, but if you haven’t had the chance yet, make the switch to putting up something that is functional and interactive! So I previously posted about the grocery store cabinet, but sometimes it’s just hard to find space for something like that. What I love about this bulletin board is that it doesn’t take up too much space, you can do endless amounts of activities for all level of students, it can be an individual or group lesson and you can change out the activities.

Students can work on something as simple as identifying an item color or price, all the way up to simulating a full consumer & employee shopping experience to practice money math, vocational, and social.

If you are interested in Interactive Bulletin Board activities  can find the bundle here . The activities comes with store item printable, price tags, shopping list and coupon task cards, and tons of worksheets! I also have a grocery store version as well!

VOCATION WORD WALL

Word Walls aren’t just for primary classrooms! Even if you’re teaching high school or transition, I highly encourage you to utilize a word wall still!! Here’s an age respectful vocation life skills word wall with visuals that I just set up in the vocation lab! I actually taped the pieces up on the walls above the whiteboards/bulletin boards – that was a fun workout going up and down a latter ?

PRO TIP: You can adjust the size of the word cards (if you have limited wall/bulletin board space) when you print by minimizing the %. Then lay out your pieces on the ground first to organize how you will space it out. It also comes with tons of more word cards than pictured! Link in profile & stories

Check out this vocation word wall here.

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OVERALL VIEW

Here is an overall view of our vocation lab. It’s a small square room, I jam packed it full of activities and utilized every inch of wall space while still providing a spacious work area for independent work or small group activities.

If you don’t have the space for something like this, I hope at the least you can take some of your favorite ideas to implement in your classroom!  If you have any questions or need recommendations for resource, feel free to comment below!

Thanks for reading!

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July 11, 2021 at 7:19 pm

Do u have a picture of your whole class lay out. I just want to see how u arrange your desk ,Table and etc. I have taught k to 4 md /autism for the last 15 years so I just want to make sure I’m making it age appropriate… I also want to thank you for sharing and I also have purchased several of ur items on tpt..thank you

July 11, 2021 at 7:48 pm

Hi Tracey, this is a vocation lab which is separate from my classroom. I will be posting a classroom tour soon. Here’s more pics of the vocation lab layout: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRMhmvPM1xO/?utm_medium=copy_link

July 11, 2021 at 10:02 pm

Would be willing to share a picture of your vocational lab rules?

July 11, 2021 at 10:39 pm

1. Scheduled use only 2. Maximum occupancy 12 3. Quiet voices 4. Resources stay in voc lab 5. Change up activities each week 6. Be productive 7. Put things back where they belong

July 27, 2021 at 3:05 pm

Hi Fiona, Love all your resources, as usual, that you have shared! Where can I find your kitchen tools labels? I would like to purchase them for my classroom kitchen. Thank you!

July 27, 2021 at 5:37 pm

Hi Kelly, the kitchen labels are a freebie here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kitchen-Visuals-Labels-FREEBIE-5290843

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Career Preparation

Vocational training programs for special education students teach work, life skills

Programs also foster acceptance in the community.

Lasherica Thornton

January 30, 2024.

As guests check out of El Capitan Hotel in downtown Merced, a group of students wearing Merced County Office of Education (MCOE) shirts or lanyards enter recently vacated rooms to strip the beds, empty the trash bins and vacuum the floors. 

For more than a year, students like Alondra Fierros, who always has a smile on her face, have separated and washed the hotel’s dirty linens while Jayden Flores has neatly folded the clean hotel towels into stacks of eight without looking up from the task.

Most of the students, ages 18-22, are diagnosed with varying degrees of autism and/or other disabilities, are in special education in the county office’s adult transition program and learning how to do laundry and clean for the first time. 

Despite their limits, the students obtain skills as part of the county office and hotel’s housekeeping program. 

“I clean the place, and I take a bunch of dirty bed sheets and towels and put them in the laundry room and wash them,” Flores said about tasks he learned by shadowing and observing housekeepers. 

Through hands-on experience at the hotel, students gain skills to work in the housekeeping and hospitality industry — whether at El Capitan or elsewhere — after they graduate. And they develop life skills for adulthood.

“At this age, we’re really trying to (give them) more experience in the community,” said Laura Fong, an assistant superintendent in the Merced County Office of Education. 

Vocational training programs have traditionally tailored jobs around special education students’ needs, such as a Fresno restaurant with modified cash registers to accommodate students who can’t read. 

This is not the case with Merced County’s program which, instead, integrates students into the housekeeping career, making it one of a few in California and across the nation to do so. The program now serves as a model for other districts aspiring to integrate students with disabilities into careers and society.  

From model room to real world experience 

The office of education launched the housekeeping training program in October 2022 for its special education students to gain work and life skills in a real world setting, Fong said. 

Before the program’s creation, students practiced their skills in an “isolated” mock hotel room, which worked for a while, Fong said. 

But it wasn’t enough. The students couldn’t apply what they learned to their life because those skills weren’t being used in a real-world environment. They weren’t observing housekeepers’ work, and therefore couldn’t comprehend the logic behind the tasks they were being instructed to do. They weren’t working alongside employees, so they weren’t learning how to interact with others or the proper ways to behave in a work setting. 

The county office sought a collaboration with the hotel, which had built the hotel room replica. 

Fong said the yearlong program is critical for the students “to be in the actual field,” get on-the-job training and be able to model employees’ behavior, which in turn provides them with real-world experience while allowing them to interact with others.

How county office’s training programs work

Once Merced County special education students finish their shift at a training site, they return to the classroom or visit another training program for the remainder of the day. In class, one of their tasks is to formulate their resume to include their on-the-job training experience. 

Working in the actual hotel “really teaches them responsibility,” said vocational trainer Lorie Gonzales, who accompanies the students to their training programs to supervise and assist them, if needed. 

With Gonzales checking their uniforms and attire before a shift, students learn that they must dress appropriately for a job. They learn about the importance of being on time because they’re expected at the hotel for their respective shifts and must clock in once they’re there.

Hotel staff are primarily responsible for training students for the housekeeping tasks, said Robin Donovan, managing director of the hotel.

The students remove dirty sheets and linens, vacuum and straighten rooms, so a housekeeper only has to make the bed and clean the bathroom. Once the housekeeper takes over, students sort, wash and dry the laundry, then vacuum the hallways and stairways and wipe down art and other fixtures mounted on the wall. 

The work skills, such as changing sheets and cleaning, become independent living skills that students need in their personal lives, Fong said.

“We want them to be prepared. Not only can they go out and find a job in this industry, doing this work, they can also transfer those skills to living on their own, independently,” she said.

Meg Metz, director of people and culture at El Capitan, said the hotel staff were at first worried about how they’d adapt to working with the students. Now, however, the staff looks forward to working alongside students, Metz and Donovan both said. 

Donovan added that hotel staff enjoy their shifts with the students who they say are reliable and hardworking and bring positivity to the workplace. 

“They do quality work,” she said, “and with the biggest smiles.” 

But the social interactions extend beyond connecting with hotel employees. The partnership with the hotel allows students to engage with hotel guests as well, including those who may still be in their rooms. 

“When I come to work here in the hotel, I say, ‘Knock, knock. Housekeeping,’” Flores said as he knocked on a third floor hotel room door. 

Gonzales, the vocational trainer, has coached the students on being courteous whenever they run into guests in the hallways and stairways. The students, for instance, tell guests to use the elevator first, Gonzales said. 

Expanding opportunities for students with special needs 

The housekeeping program isn’t the only vocational training program for individuals with disabilities in Merced County or the surrounding Central Valley communities. Since opening in the 1980s, Wired Café has been a coffee shop where adults with disabilities gain skills that prepare them for the workforce, according to Fong. It is owned and operated by Merced County’s education office as well. Students learn and grow as they take orders and fix and serve smoothies, lattes or sandwiches. 

Mimicking Wired Café, the Fresno County education office established Kids Café in 2017 as a work-based learning environment for special education students, county office leaders Christina Borges and Liza Stack said. 

In their uniforms and aprons, students working at Kids Café complete a variety of tasks, including: preparing and serving food, such as pizza, sandwiches and salads; sweeping or mopping the floors of the restaurant; clearing and wiping the tables after customers leave; stocking inventory; laundering; baking and packaging cookies or scones; weighing and bagging chips; and working the cash register.  

The Fresno County office adjusted aspects of the restaurant to accommodate students’ needs and abilities, thereby fostering independence and ensuring student success, Stack said. Restaurant modifications include visual task cards with pictures as well as step-by-step instructions, color-coordinated towels for different cleaning tasks, and a modified register in which 4C means four slices of cheese.

How Kids Café operates

The café provides two-hour shifts for most special education classes during the school year, with longer shifts offered over the summer and winter breaks. Students with special needs living in one of Fresno County’s 30 regional areas for special education services and enrolled in a county-operated program can participate. Participating students may have autism, be deaf or hard of hearing or have emotional disabilities, to name a few. Thirty-three Fresno County special education students, up from 19 last school year, have worked at the restaurant so far this school year. 

Starting around July 1, the Fresno County education office will partner with local businesses throughout the county to provide other types of vocational training for students with disabilities and offer employment opportunities in maintenance, facilities and technology at the county office. 

“We’re really looking to expand into those areas to give students something more than just restaurant work,” Borges said about integrating students into existing businesses rather than only designing programs for them. “We want to go beyond our students being in one restaurant at one location.” 

Much like the Merced County housekeeping training program, Fresno County’s planned expansion would create more vocational training that integrates special education students into careers, rather than tailoring jobs for students — a move that, Borges hopes, will show businesses the value of these students. 

Even the California Department of Rehabilitation has worked to close the employment gap for people with disabilities and, in 2022, launched an initiative with the Institute for Workplace Skills & Innovation) , a workforce development organization, to employ people with disabilities in allied health care, clerical and manufacturing jobs as part of the Ready, Willing and ABLE program. 

In August, the department and organization again partnered to establish Career Launchpad , a vocational skills and career transition program for students with disabilities — an often “overlooked and undervalued” community, a media release at the time said.

Students with disabilities are valuable to the workforce

Overall, vocational training programs such as those in Merced and Fresno exemplify how valuable students with disabilities can be to the workforce, leaders of Merced and Fresno counties said. 

“Our students being seen as active, valued members of society is one of the most important things that comes out of this,” Stack said. 

Flores, one of the Merced County students, aged out of the housekeeping training program in December when he turned 23. Gonzales, his vocational trainer, said she had hoped his employment with El Capitan Hotel would continue, especially because he could work independently in the training program. The hotel was unable to hire him because they had no open positions. He now participates in the Haven Program, a community-based center serving adults with disabilities. 

“I hope in the future, there’s more businesses that will hire them after they graduate,” Gonzales said. “… They’ve proved to us that they are capable.” 

As Merced and Fresno counties implement and expand programs throughout their communities, Borges hopes the community’s attitude will change toward students and individuals with disabilities. 

“Our students with disabilities,” she said, “have a role in the workforce.”

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William Barnes 3 months ago 3 months ago

Kudos to the Merced County Office of Education and the El Capitan Hotel for implementing this program for people with special needs. It brought back memories of two former positions I held as a teacher with similar curricula. The first was when I was hired by The Sheldon Independent School District in Houston, TX, to be the Community Based Vocational Instruction teacher for student at C.E. King High School. Through a federal grant, the school was … Read More

Kudos to the Merced County Office of Education and the El Capitan Hotel for implementing this program for people with special needs. It brought back memories of two former positions I held as a teacher with similar curricula.

The first was when I was hired by The Sheldon Independent School District in Houston, TX, to be the Community Based Vocational Instruction teacher for student at C.E. King High School. Through a federal grant, the school was partnered with San Jacinto College-North to place my students in 4 different locations on the college’s campuses. These 4 locations were the child care center, the auto body repair center, the library, and the cafeteria. My students would work in each of the locations for a period of time and then rotate to other locations to give them different experiences with different types of work. Sadly, after I moved to El Paso, the grant expired a couple of years later, and the program was dropped. From what I know, all my students were placed in adult assisted living situations.

The second time I was involved in this type of program was becoming the Transition Placement Partnership between Pittsburg High School and the California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation in the late 2000s and early 2010s. In this program, some of my students became qualified to become clients of the Department of Voc. Rehab. and the department would help my students to focus on either a post secondary or vocational training path in order to gain access to either an A.A. or certification in a career to allow them to start working. Some of the businesses in the local community were involved in being designated worksites for the students.

Again, sadly, due to inept and poor school administration and communication, the partnership was dissolved and I was replaced by another teacher who was more to the liking of the administrators. However, I enjoyed to time I did have while I was in the program.

Nance Burton 3 months ago 3 months ago

What funding source is being utilized to pay the students? There are a lot of transition programs struggling to find funding to pay the students for the work being done, enticing the employer to allow them to work on-site. Thank you for the great article Lasherica!

Melody Davis 3 months ago 3 months ago

Yes this vocational opportunity is part of our quality of living. Monies should be very much invested in programs like this everywhere .

CARI E 3 months ago 3 months ago

Are the students paid for the quality work they provide?

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Pre-Vocational Skills for Students with Disabilities – Build Better Life Skills

In the world of special education, it’s all about preparing students with disabilities to be more independent and learn the essential life skills that will make them successful in life after graduation. To ensure post-secondary success, we have to include pre-vocational skills for students with disabilities as part of our daily instruction. For special education teachers, this task is not only one of our responsibilities, but it’s an absolute imperative in properly preparing students. In this post, we’ll cover prevocational skills for special needs students, including the life skills every student in your classroom should learn.

INTRO: Prevocational Skills for Special Needs Students 

As special education teachers, we play a pivotal role in preparing students for the real world. It’s easy to focus on money skills or social problem-solving as part of a student’s education plans as a way to improve their quality of life. Most high school students will participate in some type of vocational education or vocational assessment to determine the types of jobs that would be appropriate for them. That’s all well and good for neurotypical students who are getting ready to hit the job market or continue their education. For students with cognitive development delays, developmental disabilities, or any special needs children, preparation needs to start well before high school. As early as possible, even as early as kindergarten, we need to develop our students’ academic abilities. We also need to target pre-vocational skills for students with disabilities. We do this so that our students are equipped with the tools that they need to become self-sustainable and employable. It can be overwhelming To think about targeting pre-vocational training and young children, but starting early has a significant impact on our students’ lives.

Why Prevocational Skills Matter!

Establishing prevocational skills can seem daunting as a special education teacher, but when students gain essential skills it opens the doors to greater independence and potential employment opportunities. When we teach critical prevocational skills, like time management, social skills, and communication skills, the ultimate goal is to prepare our students for independent living and successful futures. When our students are able to establish a self-sustainable life, they are more likely to have overall satisfaction and general well-being. To get them there, we need prevocational skills to provide the foundation for overcoming any challenges that may accompany living with a disability. 

To start, it’s essential to have well-crafted pre-vocational curriculum in the classroom. This curriculum should be tailored to the unique needs of special education students. It should also target the development of job-seeking skills, etiquette-related skills, and pre-vocational skills training. For a lot of students in special education, work task boxes are the norm. These target basic knowledge from early childhood through training young adults. But work boxes alone will not build the job skills necessary for a student to dazzle potential employers and sustain a well-paying job. So let’s cover some of the key areas for prevocational skill building.

Key Areas for Pre-Vocational Skill Building

To effectively prepare special needs students for potential employment and life after graduation, it’s essential to focus on specific topics as part of your lesson plans. Developing these skill sets will improve the employment rate for your students in the postsecondary. On top of that, it’s a great way to take some small steps toward building employment skills and setting a strong foundation for real-world success.

1. Communication Skills:  

Communication is a fundamental life skill. Special education students should learn how to express themselves, understand others, and use their voice tone effectively. Through focused lessons, they can develop the necessary skills for successful interactions.

• Younger Students:  Role-playing simple dialogues, encouraging students to express their preferences, and practicing basic conversational skills.
• Older Students:  Engage in group discussions, debates, or presentations to enhance their ability to articulate ideas clearly.
• TRY THIS:  Struggling with communication in your classroom? Try this  FREE guide with 15 uses for Vocabulary Boards in the classroom .

2. Social Skills:  

Teaching etiquette-related skills and fostering courteous ways of interaction is crucial. Students should learn about personal boundaries, effective communication practices, and social problem-solving. These skills are invaluable in navigating the job market and daily life.

• Younger Students:  Group activities and games that promote sharing, taking turns, and working together. Teach basic manners and how to greet others.
• Older Students:  Role-playing more complex social situations, discussing workplace etiquette, and practicing courteous behavior.
• TRY THIS:  If social skills have you feeling like you’re ready to have a behavior, then  check out this complete set of social story activity packs .

3. Academic Abilities:  

Basic knowledge and functional academics coursework are essential. Students need to acquire essential academic skills, such as survival reading and simple calculations, to engage effectively in the workforce.

• Younger Students:  Interactive lessons that incorporate reading and math into everyday activities. For example, reading labels on classroom items or basic addition during cooking activities.
• Older Students:  Engage in practical tasks like budgeting, measuring ingredients, and understanding schedules to improve financial and time management skills.
• TRY THIS:  I love it when I can get a lot of skills out of one resource.  Check out these monthly activity sets , which include reading, writing and math, as well as real-world scenarios and social studies… all with tons of visual supports.

4. Fine Motor Skills:  

Fine motor skills, often overlooked, play a significant role in building pre-vocational skills for students with disabilities. These skills are vital for tasks that require dexterity and precision.

• Younger Students:  Activities like coloring, cutting, and crafting can help develop fine motor skills.
• Older Students:   Incorporate tasks that require precision, such as assembling small objects or practicing handwriting.
• TRY THIS:  Taskboxes are a staple in special education because they provide lots of ways to target motor skills and prevocational skills too.  Check out this FREE printable set !

5. Cognitive Development:  

Preparing students for employment also involves cognitive development. This includes enhancing their problem-solving abilities and critical thinking skills.

• Younger Students:  Puzzles, memory games, and pattern recognition activities.
• Older Students:  Problem-solving challenges, critical thinking exercises, and logic puzzles.
• TRY THIS:  It can be hard to work on tough mental activities in class.  Try these fun money activities , because every kid loves fast food!

6. Job-Seeking Skills:  

A successful job search begins with understanding how to find job openings, create education plans, complete job applications, and develop effective resumes. These are skills that can significantly impact a student’s future.

• Younger Students:  Create a “job search” game where they search for fictional job listings and discuss how to apply.
• Older Students:  Practice creating resumes, writing cover letters, and simulating job interviews.
• TRY THIS:  If you want your students to learn personal finance that incorporates their personal choices,  then you need this activity ! I love that every time you do it, students get different outcomes. Ah… just like in life, your choices have consequences!

7. Local Geography:  

Understanding local geography is important, as it affects job-seeking and navigation in the community. It’s a practical skill that special education students can use in their daily lives.

• Younger Students:  Introduce basic navigation skills within the classroom using maps and simple directions.
• Older Students:  Explore local geography through field trips, mapping exercises, and community-based projects.
• TRY THIS:  Inside every one of these monthly units,  there is a mapping activity. It’s a great way to target skills!

What to Start Doing TODAY!

I totally understand that the idea of building pre-vocational skills for students with disabilities sounds great, but the most important thing you need to know is what to start doing today to make that happen. Here are a few simple and actionable steps that any teacher can take today to address prevocational skills without the need for additional materials or formal lessons.

• Daily Routines:  Incorporate pre-vocational skills into daily routines. For example, have students take turns setting up and cleaning up the classroom, which can teach time management and responsibility.
• Classroom Jobs:  Assign classroom jobs to students. This can include tasks like being the “classroom librarian” responsible for organizing books, or the “calendar keeper” who updates the class schedule. These tasks help teach organizational skills and teamwork. ( Read More Here .)
• Problem-Solving Scenarios:  Present real-life scenarios and ask students to come up with solutions. For example, ask how they would handle a lost item, resolve a disagreement, or find their way around a new place. This promotes cognitive development and social problem-solving.
• Peer Interactions:  Encourage peer interactions and collaborative activities. Group projects or cooperative games can help students develop communication and teamwork skills.
• Goal Setting:  Teach students how to set achievable goals for themselves. Start with simple goals like completing a task or learning a new skill. This fosters independence and time management.
• Job Interview Practice:  Conduct mock job interviews in the classroom. Have students take turns as both the interviewer and the interviewee. This can help build job-seeking skills and confidence. Oh! And remember to practice filling in a job application as part of this process. Sure, it requires some pre-planning, but it’s a great way to practice personal information, writing, and reading comprehension too. #TeacherWin
• Budgeting:  Introduce basic concepts of budgeting by using classroom “currency” or tokens. Students can earn tokens for completing tasks and then use them to “buy” rewards or privileges. This teaches financial literacy.

These simple actionable steps can be integrated into the daily routine of the classroom and serve as valuable lessons in pre-vocational skills. By applying these strategies, teachers can make a significant impact on their students’ development, even without additional materials or formal lessons.

If you are interested in more essential life skills every student should have, then read this post here : ( 9 Essential Life Skills Every Student Should Have ).

​RECAP: Pre-Vocational Skills for Students with Disabilities

As a teacher, you possess the power to make a lasting impression and impact on the lives of your students. By incorporating more pre-vocational skills for students with disabilities, you equip them with the tools they need to navigate the real world. It doesn’t matter if you are working with students who have severe disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, or a developmental disability, they need to learn work skills in the classroom setting in order to be better prepared for life. That means you’re not only a classroom teacher, you’re also a vocational trainer!

Take it upon yourself to examine all of the skills listed in this post. Then make a point of doing a systematic introduction of skills based on student needs. When we make solid education plans, coordinate fun and engaging in-class activities, and incorporate help from related services like Occupational Therapists, we’re setting up students for success. Now get out there and take some action. Prepare your students for a positive and successful post-secondary, starting today!

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Do you have any students who LOVE pizza?  I had a teacher I was working with who has a guy who would do any type of work….as long as it was pizza-related.  So, she and I were brainstorming all the ways we could build pizza into his work during the day.

Vocational Task 1

One easy vocational task to set up and use, if you make or have a friend at a local pizza place, is constructing pizza boxes.  Some local businesses will donate the flat boxes that need to be folded into boxes to hold pizza and some will even work with you to have this be a job for a student.  Either way, it’s easy to make a picture task analysis of the steps to set up the boxes and teach the students to assemble them.  Once the student can do it independently, they can follow the sequence on their own and you can give them a stack to work on in their work system.  This is a great example of a type of task that makes teaching the use of the schedule of the work system early on (instead of just drawers or baskets) really important because the boxes don’t usually fit into drawers and bins.  So you would put Pizza Boxes on the schedule and the student would go to a table or station with the stack of cardboard to assemble them and put them in a finished shelf like you see in the picture.  My friend Stacy W. from Bright Horizons was kind enough to share these pictures with us.

Vocational Task 2

Another way to practice following directions and sequencing is my new Let’s Build a Pizza set.  In this set, the students follow the directions of the pizza order to create the pizza from the crust to sauce (or none), cheese (or none), and other toppings.  I set it up so that it could resemble a pizza restaurant or a cooking activity and a great extension would be use the same format to cook pizza during a cooking activity.

For our guy who loves pizza, I was thinking he can type up pizza orders, he can practice his sight words reading the pizza orders (so I made them lists of ingredients).  He also has to find the right size of crust, sauce layer and cheese layer to match the order (small, medium or large). We can even bump it up a bit and have him count the number of toppings, put on specific numbers of toppings, etc.  So many skills can be built into these tasks and they can prepare a student to cook and work in a restaurant where he/she needs to assemble dishes.  As with all work tasks, first we have to teach the student how to follow the directions but once he is started, it can be put in his work system to practice independently.

You can check out the pack in my TPT store here or clicking on the pictures above.  And make sure you check out the other posts that are linked up below for all different work box activities.

Looking for more ideas on work systems and how they can be used?  Check out the links below for more posts.  And, I wrote about a book about them!  Click on the book to the left for an Amazon Affiliate link (see my disclosure policy for more information about affiliate links).  And check out my Pinterest boards for Work Tasks .

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Put in tasks and activities can be an awesome addition to your special education classroom! This is a basic fine motor skill perfect for all ages and ability levels. Once my student has mastered errorless work, they move to put in tasks!

Want to know more about errorless learning? Read this post!

What is put in work?

Put in tasks are work activities where the student is putting something inside another item. There is no sorting, no matching, no assembling, no sequencing. It’s one basic fine motor movement. Pick up items and put them somewhere.

These task ideas for students are essential to teach our younger and foundational level learners how to work independently, how to increase work endurance, and attention. There is a clear start and ending point. You can increase the length and difficulty by using smaller items and increasing the number of items. You can work on generalization by making a lot of different versions of these tasks.

Looking for better ways to set up independent work, look no further!

Why would you use put in tasks?

Put in tasks are great for students with low attention and fine motor abilities. I use these types of with early learners to increase their work confidence and work endurance. We want put in activities to be simple so we can celebrate their wins. This is typically to promote longer work periods of time.

These are great tasks to introduce independent work. Put in tasks have a definite start and stop and can help students understand the foundational needed for independent work. Want to know more about independent work? Read this blog post!

Where can I find put in activities?

You’re in luck! I have a set of put in work tasks in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store! Easy prep set of work boxes that you can print, prep and find materials in your classroom or local dollar store to set up and implement this school year!

Independent work tasks are important in every special education classroom! These task boxes can be used as teaching tools and building independence through student work.

This resource includes detailed instructions for teacher setup, Amazon list of possible materials, digital data tracking form, student visuals, teacher visuals and directions for use for 20 work tasks. These activities are for fine motor tasks that require a put in aspect. 

Best part! You can either use the pre-created student visuals with images taken for you to show each step of the task OR you can create your own student visuals!

This resource requires the addition of some basic materials such as bins, office supplies, small containers. A detailed Amazon supply list is included to make it easy to determine what you will need to create all of these centers!

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