8/1/2021

Dear Teachers,

Your Transition Department was able to acquire some electronic assessments of paper favorites, as well as some new online tools for you to try out for a limited time.

On this page you will find links to information pages or introductory videos for the new products we have acquired. I've tried to find some videos that will help provide a preview of these online tools.

Click on the images to go to a detailed description of the assessment or program .

If you would like to try these with your classroom, please make the request on this form:

We WILL be hosting trainings for some of these assessments and tools.

If you have questions, please inquire with your transition specialist.

M-A, EPAA, Redwood, TIDE, HomeHosp, Indep Study, TRACE - Gail Oytas, goytas@seq.org

Sequoia, Satellite, Satellite Plus - Kai Orozco, korozco@seq.org

Carlmont, Woodside - Gema Casillas, gcasillas@seq.org

If you like the product enough to use it yearly, please let us know using the comment button on the top right of this page. The transition department will try to accommodate your request.

Features:

• Online platform

• Extensive library of quality videos of various careers and pathways, as well as Independent living and job readiness skills.

• Extensive lesson plan library and pre and post- viewing assessments

• Teacher access to student results and reporting.

• New lessons and videos are uploaded regularly

• Some embedded accessibility (Closed captioning, text to speech, and compatibility to external text to speech technology)

• Students with mod/severe disabilities may benefit from the videos, especially videos showing students with disabilities working with job coaches and sharing their career exploration pathways.

• Consultation from VJS to help teachers create modules to meet their student's needs.

Limits:

• Limited number of student licenses available

• We have acquired a 3 year license.

Features:

• Online platform

• Extensive video library of popular careers and pathways, as well as Independent living, job readiness skills, and social emotional learning.

• Extensive library of supporting assessments designed to measure student's academic readiness for given career/pathway, and career planners to expose student to (somewhat) academic rigor of a given course of study.

• Teacher portal to access to student progress, results and reporting.

• New lessons and videos are uploaded regularly

• Compatibility to external text to speech technology.

• Some embedded accessibility (Closed captioning, text to speech, and compatibility to external text to speech products)

• Great exercise for students who need to develop realistic career goals.

• Flexibility for group instruction, or independent study.

Limits:

• Limited number of student licenses available.

• Best for RSP students.

• High functioning ILS/TRACE students can benefit from the videos and LAP assessements, and while students with lower academic skills can access the videos, they may need check for understanding.

Some of you may be familiar with the free site. But did you know that they have upgraded it with some new features? But you have to pay for those premium features.

We have some licenses for the PAID version of this program, which include local (San Mateo county) connections to industry leaders, and more features for lesson planning and sharing.

• 5 minute Overview of CA Career Zone here

• 47 min webinar covering both free state sponsored version and paid upgrade version (starting at 16:45) here

Features:

• Online platform

• San Mateo County Office of Education are involved in customizing the premium version for San Mateo County, and will be providing training on the paid versions.

• Department of Rehabiliation is familiar with this platform and could use when working with your students.

• Teacher portal to manage your students and give them assignments.

Limits:

• Limited number of student licenses available

• Student Licenses are good for 3 years. After 3 years your feedback will help us determine if we should contiue the licences.

Features:

• Digital versions have been purchased for some of your favorite paper assessments from JIST publishing

• We tried to purchase a variety of assessments to cover all areas of the ITP.

• Digital Assessments are self scoring. Students should be able to score their own paper assessments.

Limits:

• Limited number of licenses available per digital assessment

• Assessment keys for digital versions only valid for 1 year. As such, we will likely be purchasing in Late May for use during 21-22 school year.

• Generally recommended for RSP students. PICS is appropriate for students who have lower academic skills.

• DIgital Licenses come in bundles of 25, and each bundle gets only 1 teacher access key, so we encourage partnering with another teacher if you have small caseloads.

Career Exploration

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