October 31- November 4: Work Values Assessment Wizard

Have you ever wondered what motivates people to go for certain jobs?  At KTC, we are trying to help our students understand what they hope to receive from a job--what they value as important.

Our students completed a work values assessment on the Work Values Assessment Wizard where they moved values around into an interest level spectrum.  After all 20 of the cards were in the 5 columns, they submitted it to find out the their primary and secondary work values.  

From there, they would go to the O-Net Work Values site, they can  research the jobs that fit the values they identified as important to them.  

October 24-28: Resume--Downloading the Template, Uploading to Google Drive, and Beginning to Complete.

The Kent Transition Center likes to use technology to help our students learn anytime, anywhere, any place, and any how.  One way we help our students use this is by using technology.  

We use Google Drive and Google Apps extensively to help the students with reading, writing, revision, and collaboration with teachers and their peers.  In ELA class, they accessed the ELA Moodle page, found the resume template, downloaded it, and uploaded it into their drive!  The students are using this technology and doing great!  The students also have shared it with myself (and their content area teachers) so that we know the progress they have made and help them in the revision process.

We also LMS (Learning Management Systems) and OLE (Online Learning Environments).  Currently, some teachers are using one, another, or both types of services.  For example, the ISD provides Moodle to the teachers so that they can post all their resources or units online for the students to access even if they're off campus.  Also, all the the teachers at KTC use Edify, a learning management system that allows them to put pre-tests, post-tests, and formative lessons or assignments in between, to help our students achieve growth.  This LMS also allows for the teacher to track the progress of the students and also observe how well they are achieving the standards for the content area.  

At KTC and Kent ISD with our use of tech, OLE, and LMS, we lead learning!