MAER22 - Session G -Multiple Perspectives on Career Education

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Description

Career Education is important, but at times can feel like it is the least touched upon of the 9 areas of the expanded core curriculum (ECC). It can look different depending on the student’s ability level, resulting in not addressing it to being unsure how to address it. This presentation will share examples of career education and how it may look for students as young as preschool with multiple disabilities to high school students entering a “first job.”

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, participants will be able to…
1. List/provide activities that relate to career education of all levels.
2. Utilize interest inventory/checklists.
3. Informally identify student’s ability level to help guide activities (Preschool MDSSI vs High School VI) as it relates to career education.

Presenters: Amber Hodges, Tara Hill and Claire Fineberg

Contributors

Amber Hodges

Amber Hodges graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor's in Special Education and rehabilitation and Master's in Teachers of students with Visual Impairments and Severe and Profound Disabilities. She worked at the Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind where she began her teaching career with students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing with multiple disabilities in a life skills classroom. She then moved to Phoenix and began teaching at Foundation for Blind children specializing in students with a dual sensory loss (deafblind).
Tara Hill

Tara Hill graduated from the University of Arizona (UofA) with her undergraduate degree in May 2011. She went back to complete the VI program at the UofA, graduating in December 2013. She began working at the Foundation for Blind Children (FBC) in January 2014. She has taught both Elementary Ed. (K‐4) and Preschool (PK) students and is currently teaching in a PK classroom. Since she started 7 years ago, she’s worked with students that have multiple disabilities, including students with a dual sensory loss.