My students need these items to implement a campus wide Coffee Cart; this Coffee Cart will help students learn responsibility and important life skills.
"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way." - George Evans
I teach an extraordinary group of exceptional learners.
Each of the students I have the privilege to teach has been diagnosed with an intellectual and/or physical disability. These disabilities range from Autism, Intellectual Disabilities, or Down Syndrome, to Visual Impairments. While facing the challenges their disability carries, they also face the challenge of coming from a low socioeconomic home.
While it seems that these students have the world against them, they are the most joyful, compassionate, and loving students.
My Project
When teaching students with significant disabilities, teachers must look far beyond student performance from August to May and consider their success beyond school. Skills that our students will need to be successful, contributing members of their community workforce, must begin as early as possible.
With the Coffee Cart, students will be challenged to reach their highest potential in a variety of different areas.
This project will teach students several new vocational skills, such as: task sequencing, order filling, workplace health and safety, peer to peer work, and many more. Students will also have the opportunity to practice functional academic skills such as environmental print, money management, and sequencing. Students will be interacting with their peers and teachers across the campus, so they will also have ample opportunities to practice crucial social skills.
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