The Academy for Community Inclusion, FPCTP Development and Structure at Florida Atlantic University

STRUCTURES OF PSE PROGRAMS• Linked to type of IHE • Technical schools • Work toward certificates within industry standards • Work toward employment within the certificate • Non- technica

FAU-ACI: FL CTP DEVELOPMENT

AND STRUCTURE

Mary Louise Duffy, Ph.D.: Professor & Project Coordinator of FAU-ACI Gwendolyn Carey, M.Ed.: Curriculum Specialist: Academic, FAU-ACI

• Structures within PSEs

• FAU-ACI Program Structure

• One path to developing a PSE

• Cautions and Strategies

• Questions

STRUCTURES OF PSE PROGRAMS

• Linked to type of IHE

• Technical schools

• Work toward certificates within industry standards

• Work toward employment within the certificate

• Non- technical schools

• Work toward functional employment skills

• Not directly connected to any industry cert

TECHNICAL PROGRAMS

• SafeStaff Food Handler

• 90 days

• Required by most food

service, hospitality, and

tourism certificates

Services as an entry to

food service field

• Industry certification

• Coursework, field

experiences

• Understood by industry

• Undergraduate Certificate: Employment

• Offered through college or division

• Career awareness and exploration

• Varied internships

• Coursework to teach employment support skills

• Meet specific student needs

• Need articulation to be valued by industry/community

FUNCTIONAL EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS

EXAMPLES OF EACH

HOW TO DECIDE WHICH WAY TO GO

• What already exists at the IHE? Can they be adapted, accommodated, or modified? Which options seem to have local appeal?

• What is the MISSION of the IHE?

• Not simply words; denotes direction of the college/university

• FAU’s mission statement promotes the goal to “equip students with the necessary tools to achieve academic, personal, and career success.”

• Can it be used as the program anchor?

FAU-ACI PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

AND DEVELOPMENT

FIND THE KEY PEOPLE; ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS

• Program champions: focus on benefits and connection to mission

• Faculty to develop curriculum: focus on faculty skills

• “Middle management”: focus on what has to happen to make X occur?

• Example: Academic Affairs: course numbering, student id, paying tuition

• Example: DVR: how to make program goals and process mesh with division goals?

• Can you live with those suggestions????

USE RESEARCH TO GUIDE INSTRUCTIONAL

PRACTICES

• Key ideas/strategies used:

• Evidence based practices for teaching students with moderate to severe disabilities

• Scaffolding instruction and performance feedback

• Concrete-Representational-Abstract presentation;

• Use of UDL and technology;

• Peer mediated instruction

• Community based instruction

RESOURCES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL

PRACTICES

• Instructional Scaffolding: https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/sca/cresource/q1/p01/

• C-R-A: https://makingeducationfun.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/concrete-representational-abstract-cra/

• UDL syllabus design: https://mtsac.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=27697365

• mediated instruction: Mentoring!!!

KEEP THE GOALS IN MIND

• Program goals

• Community employment; self determination; dignified adult life

• Agency goals

• DVR employment goals (90 days after stabilization)

• U.S Department of Education goals: 50% or more in inclusive settings

• University goals

• Funder goals

• All good children have goals to meet!

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