Planning for transition services

Planning for transition services includes preparing school personnel for the responsibility of providing services to students with disabilities. To prepare for this responsibility, prepare a presentation that you could give to a superintendent’s leadership team to document the provision of an appropriate transition program. Utilize any type of technology or other documentation procedures you prefer to accomplish this task. Information pertaining to all of the questions below is addressed in Kochhar-Bryant & Greene (2009).

Be sure to include the following:

1. What kinds of goals and transition formats must be created to help teachers develop good transition plans? (Be sure to provide actual or hypothetical examples.)
2. What meetings need to be conducted with school personnel for training purposes?
3. What professionals will be involved in the transition program training sessions?
4. How will you provide for the four transition pathways for students with disabilities?
5. How will you prepare students to conduct student-directed IEP transition planning meetings?
6. What follow-up and follow-along procedures and practices will be used to monitor post-school IEP services?
7. How will you evaluate the quality of the transition program?
8. How many of the ten steps in planning to implement interagency agreements for transition will you utilize?
9. What best practices in transition for culturally and linguistically diverse youth with disabilities will you utilize?
10. Any additional topics to address? Include them in your final summary.

In your PowerPoint Slides – or other technology-enhanced presentation – please be sure to include:

• Appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics
• Speaker notes of 200-350 words for each slide (You may use brief paragraphs or bulleted lists.)
• Include 12-15 PowerPoint slides, not including the title slide and at least one slide containing references used for the slideshow presentation.
• Information addressing all five sections, as outlined above.
• At least 5 relevant scholarly resource references.
• Citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style.
• Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.

Your presentation should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Review APA Form and Style.