Transition Lesson Plan

Class: Academic Strategies Activity: Transition Setting: Resource Room # of Students: 5

Statement of  Students will be able to identify the skills they have that Accommodations
Objective: will help them transition into employment, recreation and
leisure activities, home living, community participation, and
post-secondary education
 Students will be able to identify the skills they need in order
to help them transition into employment, recreation and
leisure activities, home living, community participation, and
post-secondary education
Materials:  ESTR-J or Forest Hills Public Schools Transition Small group
Assessment setting in a room
 Pencil with few
distractions
Opening:  Ask students to think for 30 seconds about life after high
school
 Have students write independently for 1 minute about what
they are doing and where they are living
 Remind the students that they each have different goals for
themselves after high school
 Explain that it is important that when they graduate from
high school, they feel like they are prepared to reach their
personal goals
 Ask the class to share some of their goals after high school
 If no one volunteers, prompt the students by asking them to
raise their hand if they want to attend a college or
university, if they want to start working right away, etc.

Presentation:  Ask the class if anyone can define transition

 Their definition should be similar to: “a movement,
development, or evolution from one form, stage, or style to
another”
 Remind the class that when they are in high school, they
should be thinking about the skills they already have and the
skills they still need in order to be successful after high
school
 Tell the students that even if they know what they want to
do, it is important to have a wide range of skills since they
may change their minds
 Give example: A lot of college freshman choose a major at
the beginning of the year then before the time that they
graduate they end up changing their major
Guided Practice:  Tell the students that they are going to take a transition
assessment
 Remind them that this is a low-stakes assessment that they
may have already taken, and they may take it again at some
point
 Remind students that It is important to return to these
assessments as their interests change and they learn new
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skills
 Tell them the assessment is going to ask them questions
about their interests and their current skill set
 Pass out the transition assessments—give the
upperclassmen the FHPS Transition Assessment and the
underclassmen the ESTR-J
 Give the students time to work through the assessments
Closing:  Tell the students that they can turn the assessment into me
once they are finished
 Explain that I am going to use the assessments to help me
plan activities for Academic Strategies that are going to help
them gain the skills they still need
 Check in with each student individually about what they are
going to do with the remainder of the hour