SPE 537 Family-Community Partnerships & Assessment

Candidates will learn and understand the importance of creating effective communication techniques to foster collaborative relationships with students, families, professionals, paraeducators and human service agencies for an effective transition. Through meaningful collaboration, candidates will learn and understand educational assessment strategies that promote continual development of students during a school to post-school transition. Assessments include formal and informal career and vocational assessment and identifying student preferences and matching them to meaningful community and employment activities. Techniques for involving community partners are illustrated. After assessing student preferences and abilities, a process for creating measurable post-school goals will be taught with alignment to instructional activities that promote an effective transition. Pre-requisite(s): LBS 1 licensure. CO-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours