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Mrs. Jaculin Zimmerman Secondary Life Skills Support Transition
Coordinator for Special Education Students
[Back to high school faculty] Our life skills class has eight students. It serves students from Clearfield, Moshannon Valley and the West Branch School Districts. Our students are ages 15 - 21. We focus on job training and life skills so that students can become as independent as possible when they graduate. In addition to a Life Skills curriculum, the students participate in jobs at the school district. They help out in the office, cafeteria, and in both the high school and elementary buildings. The students run the school store and fill the soda machines. In addition we participate in volunteer work at various settings throughout the community. Some of these sites have included the Philipsburg food bank, NAPA, Kephart Hardware, Long's Bus Company and Philipsburg True Value. The class is operated by the Central Intermediate Unit. I am also the Transition Coordinator for the West Branch School District. Transition is an on-going process for identifying the desired outcomes of the life of a student of an early age, and then planning a school program to best reach those outcomes am also the Transition coordinator for all special education students. In the district Transition Planning involves a partnership of consumers, school-age services, and programs, post-school services and programs and local communities that results in higher education, employment, independent living and community participation. Transition is a bridge between school programs and the opportunities of adult life. The Clearfield County Transition Council sponsors a Career Day every spring at Lock Haven University. We also host student staffings. This gives Junior and Senior Special Ed students the oppurtunity to connect with outside agencies before graduation. Staffings this year are scheduled for November 14, 2007
For more information about the program or the class, I can be contacted in the classroom at 814-345-5615 Ext 1140
Links Central Intermediate Unit- www.ciu10.com |
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