Reading Driven Vocational Tasks

Building Driven Needs and Bins

  • As you move forward…consider moving from the building level to the district level to the community level…think application of skills applied across environments, and applied in buildings who you are in walking proximity to..
  • The importance of working without focus toward workshop settings is important, as Ray Graham recently did away with their workshop and has moved toward more of a “micro enterprise” type business set up. Seguin is trying to set up in Dupage county, they support enterprises currently in a car repair shop and a horticulture shop, both located in Cicero.
  • (The first portion of this for “work orders” is lined up with state standards. If you’re choosing jobs, it might help support curriculum if we look at what’s selected and make sure it lines up with what you need for your students, so your activities are standards driven.) For example:
  • Try emailing teachers and listening to what they’re needing help with to find insight into what your student can do to support that.
  • Try walking the building and note who might need help with what jobs.
  • Work Orders (This can be set up so that teachers fill out work orders…thank you Sharon Fries at Brooks and Evelyn Pape at Georgetown for this idea!)
  • Tie building driven jobs into TheCommon Core State Standards

Job Ideas (Meeting Building Needs)

  • Check contents in science kits
  • Pack/unpack science kits
  • Sorting/grouping Campbell’s Soup Labels (Maureen Troke/Welch Elementary/Indian Prairie School District 204)
  • Die cutting ABC letters/bulletin board messages
  • Front door greeter (reading from or using written or visual script)
  • Assembling anything using written or visual directions
  • Sort, stack, label any items being collected for food and clothing drives
  • Follow a map to turn on/off computers in a.m. and p.m.
  • Stamping return addresses on envelopes for the main office (Sharon Fries/Brooks Elementary Indian Prairie School District 204)
  • Begin with stamping within a given space
  • Mailboxes
  • Corresponding to first letters or matching names
  • Secretaries can save a designated number of letters for your kids
  • Highlighting names and color coding
  • LMC Jobs
  • Bar Codes (Ev Pape/Georgetown Elementary/Indian Prairie School District 204)
  • Shelve/sort books
  • Read to younger students
  • Collect, sort, deliver AR tests (Liz Molter, Amy Piepert/ Steck Elementary/Indian Prairie School District 204)

Job Ideas (Bins for Developing Independence)

*-Hands on Tasks and Ideas Product Catalog

#-ideas found at preschoolfun.org

  • *Alphabetize and file sets of cards by name and picture name
  • *Sort, stamp and insert matched library cards in library books
  • *Match CD’s to a list and place into a travel CD pouch
  • Assemble anything that comes with directions
  • #-Alphabet letter stamping/stamping words
  • #-assemble things and bag according to a written list
  • #-sort words into categories labeled inside laminated file folders
  • #-match digital photos to words (attach meaning to words/vocabulary)
  • Sorting items into bin/piles with the item’s name
  • #-create an alphabetized phone book of friends, relatives and staff and let the kids make calls (make sure to have them call themselves on their own answering machine)
  • #-create a picture dictionary

Linda Warning/DST/Indian Prairie School District 204

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