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Mrs. Riordan from Columbus IN is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Exploring Community Jobs

Help me give my students virtual opportunities to practice a variety of job skills.

  • $275 goal

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My Students

Like all kids, my students are AMAZING. The students I work with have exceptional needs that range from Cognitive Delays, Autism, Downs Syndrome, visual and physical challenges. Many of my students read using picture cues and visuals. Some use communication devices, others use verbal expression. They work in small groups to meet their educational goals as well as attending inclusion classes with peers. One thing that we work on is job skills.

We help to prepare students for jobs in areas that they enjoy.

Most of my students need help focusing and completing tasks independently in order to reach their goals. We use hands on work systems in the classroom to practice job skills.

Now that many students are virtual, they are missing the opportunity to practice independence in sorting, problem solving and completing tasks of a pre-vocational nature.

My Project

My students are full of passion for all things they set their minds to doing. They are most easily engaged in hands on high interest activities with familiar visuals. Due to COVID, many of my students are working virtually. I am lacking interactive work tasks to engage students in pre-vocational skills virtually.

I would like to use Teacher Pay Teacher gift cards to purchase units that have been built with interactive features at scaffolded levels of for a variety of learner abilities.

Units would include job skills such as exploring a grocery store. The unit would list job roles at a grocery store then provide drag and drop opportunities. At a grocery store, activities include stocking shelves, matching prices to items, using a cash register and providing change. Examples of job sites include a cinema, a landscaping company, a shoe store, a donut shop, etc. Other units include skills of daily living that are important when having a job such as grooming, choosing clothes, nutrition, social skills, self regulation and accessing a bus route.

By donating to this project you will help students to engage with high interest virtual activities that help them to find areas of passion and increase their ability to focus on task completion. You will also be helping the families of these students to envision future job sites that their child may have. This project will help to prepare students for meaningful work in their community. This project will take students to virtual workplaces. Your donation, like a good book, will allow students to explore beyond the walls of their homes.

Mrs. Riordan
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers • Teachers Pay Teachers $100.00 2 $200.00

Materials cost

$200.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$233.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.12

Total project goal

$274.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $274.12

9 Donors

-$137.06

Donations toward project cost

-$116.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.56

match offer

-$137.06

Match offer toward project cost

-$116.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.56

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 $0.00

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