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|  | | | | Transition | | | When students turn 14 years of age, they start focusing on transitioning out of school. The curriculum becomes focused on five areas of transition skills. The transition areas are as follows:
(you can click on the transition area directly below and it will take you to the write-up on that area)
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Home Living SkillsCommunity PartitipcationRecreaction and Leisure SkillsJobs and Jobs TrainingPost School OptionsHome Living Skills
 My students are constantly working on their home living skills. We spend time dressing, toileting, brushing our teeth, brushing our hair, and washing our face. The students also spend time cleaning by vacuuming, washing tables, washing desks, washing and stacking chairs, folding laundry, washing dishes, and more.
My students also have the opportunity to use the cooking room once a week and create many food items that they get to make and enjoy. |
Community Partitipcation
Once the students are 14 years of age, they have the opportunity to go into the community and work, recreation and leisure skills, and more. My students currently have access to the St. Paul Central Library, where they are read to and choose their own books to read, Store-to-Door, where the students sort coupons, bowling, and recycling in the district center building. The students leave for their community outings at 10:00am and return to school around 12:00pm.
We also take field trips into the community and have gone to such places as the Children's Theatre, Maplewood Mall, and MN Zoo. Near the end of the school year we will be taking trips to:
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Recreaction and Leisure Skills
 My students have many opportunities throughout the course of the school day in which to rest and relax. Learning recreation and leisure skills is important for my students to learn in order to prepare them for having down time after they graduate. The students have many opportunities to pick free choice activities and are expected to interact and engage with their choices. The students also have the opportunity to swim once a week and participate in adapted phy ed. once a week. We also take many walks for exercise and partake in many different music and movement activities within our classroom. The students also have the opportunity to have rest times throughout the day, where they may lie down and relax or sit and look at a book quietly. |
Jobs and Jobs Training
My students have the opportunity to train for jobs while at their community work sites and also have the opportunity to train for jobs during our workroom time. During our workroom time, which we partake in every day, the students work on such skills as counting, sorting, folding, dicutting, heat sealing, crushing cans, and more. |
Post School Options
 At each student's IEP when they are in transition, the team discusses whether or not the parents want any information on post school sites. Parents also have the opportunity to visit post school sites throughout the school year. Students graduate from Bridge View when they are 21 years of age and it is important that the students are set up in a post school site to go to when they graduate. There are many post school options and tours of sites can be set up on a continual basis. Just give me a call if you want to start looking at sites and/or set up an appointment to tour some of them. |
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