In-Class Lessons

Objective: The participants will learn the importance of daily life skills in a community work environment. The participants will develop questions to ask students (Bloom's Taxonomy Application), Construct visual aids (Bloom's Taxonomy Synthesis), and differentiate materials for students (Bloom's Taxonomy Synthesis).

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Communication:

This tends to be a difficult concept for many Life Skills students. Communication skills for the community would consist of being able to ask work related questions and respond to customers in the store.

What type of aids do your students need?

A Communication Lesson could involve:

Teachers acting out various examples

 Teacher 1 (Customer) -- Excuse me, I need help.
 Teacher 2 (Student) -- Can I help you?
 Teacher 1 (Customer) -- I am very upset that you are out of juice!
 Teacher 2 (Student) -- Let me get someone to help you.

Students participating in a group activity (with other students or a teacher)

  This would still involve a written script for the students to practice.

--Write a script you could give students to practice. The student in the scenario has trouble with toys that make noise. A child is going to touch them.--

Hygiene

This concept is taught at school with the intention of it being generalized into the home. The easiest part of hygiene to work on in school is the use of deodorant. Depending on your school you may have access to a washer and dryer, where you can teach the students how to do laundry. You may also be able to teach them how to brush their teeth.
Read the following article on teaching personal hygiene --

- Personal Hygiene

Teaching hygiene can involve visual aids. Visual aids can vary in design depending on the student/s that they are intended for

A picture with one word
A picture with a sentence
Just words

Ex:

--Create a visual support for using deodorant.--

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Dress

You want to teach the students how to dress when they go to work. You must keep in mind that some students will have sensory issues with certain materials. The main concept in this lesson is to teach students to dress in clean and wrinkle free clothes. You may be able to get the students school t-shirts that can stand as a uniform.
--This is a lesson that needs to be taught by example. You can have the teachers in the room demonstrate a messy worker and a neat worker. Ask the students "Who is messy?" and "Who is neat?"--

Time

Time is a difficult concept to teach students with severe learning disabilities.

Students should be taught how to:

Read a digital clock
Read a schedule

Extension lessons:

Being able to tell what time it will be in "X" hours from a given time
Being able to tell what time it was from "X" hours from a given time

The attached worksheet can be used to help teach students how to read a schedule.

- Reading a Train Schedule

--Create a work schedule for the week-- Below are questions you can ask students:--

What does (Student's name) come in to work?
What time does (Student's name) get off work?

--What other questions can you ask students?--

Community Lessons