Visual Resumes Are a Must for Students with Disabilities!
Help me give my students an iPad that we can take to our community work sites in order to take notes, take photos & videos of students working to create a visual resume & use class dojo.
$1,477 goal
This project expired on May 15, 2020.
This project expired on May 15, 2020.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students have all been identified as having multiple or severe disabilities including intellectual and/or physical impairments. They all take work-skills related classes where they practice both the physical and soft-skills of work. For example, many of my students are working on sorting and matching by color or type. What seems simple for us often takes months of instruction for my students to learn - and when they master something new it is a BIG deal!
What I love most about working with my students is their non-stop growth!
They are an incredibly resilient and positive group of students and come from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, most come from low-income households and almost all of them will leave high school at the age of 22, to enter into group-supported employment or adult day programs.
My Project
Our goal for our students is to help find ways they can work and live in their communities just like their peers without disabilities. One of the projects we complete each year to highlight the many skills and strengths of our students is a visual resume.
We need a portable way to capture our students showcasing their work skills and their favorite leisure activities so that we can help them develop a visual resume.
Since most of my students won't have traditional work experience and many struggles to read and write, we take photos and videos of them doing all of the activities they love and have developed their skills in. Just like a typical resume, these get updated each year so that when students graduate, they have a portfolio of their experiences and examples of their growth.
An iPad is portable so we can take it out of the building easily, and we can also use Class Dojo on it and keep notes and emergency contact information all in one place. This project really arose because we needed a way to take photos and videos that we could take with us to job sites and on community-based instruction trips (like a field trip but to a community location that students need to practice going to such as a grocery store or the library) - however, because iPads have wi-fi capability we can also use it for a variety of other needs which is wonderful!
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