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Goal

Transition Interns will keep a digital portfolio of their work experiences throughout the school year. All of the files for their digital portfolio will be stored on a flash drive. Some of the files included in the Intern's portfolio are:
Written assignments, journal entries, completed tests, artwork, lab reports, physical projects (such as dioramas or models), multimedia presentations, and other material evidence of learning progress and academic accomplishments, including awards, certificates and honors.  

What will be done with my students

Transition Interns will be going out into the community to learn job skills. In the classroom, students will work on completing job applications, role-playing job interviews, budgeting, and independent living skills. One business affiliate where the Interns are currently assigned is The Guadalupe Learning Center in Immokalee. Students arrive to the center each day for on-the-job-training by performing such tasks as food preparation and food service, light office skills (filing, organizing, paper shredding, cutting out lamination), custodial duties (cleaning, sweeping, collecting trash, vacuuming, sanitizing play toys), and providing classroom assistance to the teachers (preparing bulletin boards, organizing papers, sorting toys, cleaning, cutting, preparing cots with fitted sheets for naptime).

Students will document personal growth to promote motivation and self-confidence. The portfolio will provide a strengths-based perspective of their interests and abilities in the work place. Photos and videos are taken in the work place to show competency of various skills. Students can use these recordings to self-reflect on their work. All files will be downloaded and stored on a flash drive. 

Benefits to my students

The Immokalee P.R.I.D.E. Transition students will keep a digital portfolio that will tell their own unique story. All files will be stored on a flash drive. This digital portfolio will be used to actively engage in Transition goals and activities during the IEP (Individualized Education Plan) process of building employment skills and documenting work experiences. This process will encourage self-determination, self-reflection, and self-advocacy in my students. It is my belief that when students with disabilities develop, maintain, and share their transition portfolio, the likelihood of personal accountability for academics, pride in the products developed, and sense of ownership increases, while the dependence upon teachers and parents decreases. Digital transition portfolios have the potential to serve as another strategy to further the development of self-advocacy for secondary students with disabilities.
 

Budget Narrative

Amazon: Brand: SanDisk
Memory Storage Capacity 128 GB
Hardware Interface USB 3.0
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Product Type: Computer Input Device
Package Quantity: 1
Package Dimensions: 1.3 cms (L) x 10.4 cms (W) x 15.7 cms (H) 

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