Students with Disabilities

Students with Disabilities Participation in the ACP Process and the Transition Planning Process

ACP includes all students in the Fall Creek School District.  Students with disabilities are not excluded from any activity that the general population is offered, however, they have additional support in the area of ACP that includes:

·         Services provided by the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) and Workforce Resource Inc. 

·         Access to small group vocational and transition classes that target their individual needs.  These classes target reading  and writing,  functional math skills, life and social skills, and communication.

.         Individualized goals, mentoring, and meetings as needed to ensure transition and career readiness.

The Cricket Cup 

In this specialized course students will operate a coffee shop in our school: THE CRICKET CUP. The coffee shop will provide coffee and beverage items for faculty and students as well as enable the students to practice extremely important pre-vocational skills to assist them with obtaining gainful employment after graduation from high school. Students will deal with real customers, and real on-the-job scenarios.

Vocational skills in The Cricket Cup include and are not limited to:

Appropriate eye contact and body language, professional communication, customer service skills, restocking and maintenance, making coffee and other beverages, delivering coffee, following multi-step directions, job application skills, time management, creating advertisements and merchandise, social media marketing, accepting constructive criticism and feedback, how to work with team mentality, consistent attendance.

Co-teaching

Co-teaching is a collaborative approach to instruction in which two teachers, typically a general education teacher and a special education teacher, work together to plan and then implement instruction for a class that includes students with disabilities. This can benefit not only the students with disabilities, but all students who are having difficulty with or are misunderstanding an assignment. Co-teaching is the most common method of delivering specially designed instruction to students with disabilities in the least-restrictive environment.

Co-teaching gives students with disabilities the opportunity to access the same curriculum and experiences as the general population of students. Co-teaching in Fall Creek High School has included courses such as English 9, 10, 11, and 12, Algebra and Geometry, Biology, Ecology, Physical Science, and more. Co-taught classes change each year depending on student needs. 

Structured Study

Small group study halls known as Structured Study provides small group and individualized instruction or time to self regulate in the special education environment with a learning specialist.