Developing Job Shadow Experiences (full day)
Time
8 a.m.-3 p.m. or 9 a.m.-4 p.m., including a one-hour lunch break.
Purpose
To provide students with disabilities the opportunity to participate high quality career exploration activities, including job shadow experiences, necessary to identify and pursue their post-school goals in education, training, and employment
Objectives
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
- Identify and describe essential characteristics for developing meaningful job shadow experiences
- Describe how to incorporate job shadow activities into transition instruction and assessment practices
- Discuss the steps and components for developing individual and/or group job shadow sites
Subtopics include:
- CTE: Work-Based Learning Overview
- Job Shadow and the Transition Planning Process
- Developing Sites
- Instruction and Transition Development
- Technical Planning Considerations
Sample Agenda
- 9:00-9:30 a.m. - Introduction, Setting the Stage
- 9:30-10:15 a.m. - Overview and Purpose
- 10:15-10:30 a.m. - BREAK
- 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Developing Job Shadow Sites
- 12:00-12:45 p.m. - LUNCH
- 12:45-2:00 p.m. - Developing Job Shadow Sites (continued)
- 2:00-2:15 p.m. - BREAK
- 2:15-3:15 p.m. - Instruction and Transition Development
- 3:15-3:45 p.m. - What's next? Planning for Development
- 3:45-4:00 p.m. - Final Questions, Clock Hours
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