Resource Room 109

The object of teaching a child
is to enable the child to get
along without the teacher.

Program Goals:  Students will develop skills and increased independence in functional academics, a variety of elective classes, cooking, work experience, community recreation and mobility and other life skills that will aid in the transition to adult life.

Functional Academics    

LAB (Learning Assistance Boscariol)                       

 

 

note:  wherever appropriate students are placed in academic classes with an academic support block to provide extra help.  They complete their course work with adaptations or with modifications that are necessary for success.

Work Experience                         
Work Site Sponsors:                                                                                      
Prestige Inn – chambermaid
Alpine Motel – chambermaid
Leo’s – dishes and kitchen work
Hume – dishes and kitchen work
Amanda’s – dishes and kitchen work
Best Western – dishes and kitchen work
Speed-Pro Printers – peeling signs, clean up
Grocery Stores/Drug Stores – shelving, bakery
Daycares – tying shoes, helping with coats, cleaning up
Allen’s Candies – packaging, labeling, counting, wrapping
Express Newspaper – delivering throughout the downtown/mall

Electives       some examples are:

Wood Working

Drama

Dance

Sewing

Mechanics

PE

Foods

Media Arts

Art

-riding city buses        
-using recreation facilities:  pool, rink, bowling alley
-shopping at a variety of grocery stores
-walking to locations in town

Cooking:

Every week 1 group of students plans, shops for, cooks and serves a Friday lunch.
The students often invite a friend or a staff member to join them for lunch. 
Other special events are planned and catered by the students, such as:  a Christmas Tea for retiring staff, parents and guests and a Halloween Party spaghetti luncheon with Trafalgar students.
Some of the lunches made so far this year are:

• chili
• spaghetti & garlic bread
• chicken souvlaki, rice, veges & tzatsiki
• penne with italian sausage and tomatoes
• chipatis with curry
• grilled cheese sandwiches & soup
• borscht
• pizza buns
• calzones
• cheese omelets
• baked macaroni & cheese casserole with homemade buns

 

TRANSITION CONCEPTS

 

Tying school activities to life after graduation.

 Relating student interests and abilities to desired occupational and living potentials.

  Advising students and parents of the choices they have after school.

   Needs are related to community agencies available for support.

    Students play an active part in the transition plan.

     Interagency communications are essential for the individual’s success.

      Training programs are to be included in plans.

       Independence and positive interdependence are promoted.

        Offer information and support, leaving decisions to students and parents.

         Noting strengths and emphasizing them during planning discussion.

The Canadian Council for Exceptional Children

Transitions:           

• a good transition plan, done at the end of each student’s grade 8 year, enables the student to make a comfortable and positive move from their old school up to LVR.
• from grade 9-12 transition goals to adult life are established and worked on.
• Students participate to the best of their ability in school wide transitions & planning classes and the topics are reinforced and retaught in their LAB block (Learning Assistance Boscariol)  Topics are:   healthy relationships, sexual health, drugs, alcohol, smoking, career options
• In order to explore different job opportunities in the community students complete Work Experience 12, with support as needed.   see above section on work exp.
• Visits are made to a number of post-secondary programs which offer opportunities to individuals with special needs who have obtained a school leaving certificate instead of a diploma.
• Selkirk College, Nelson – Transition Training Program:  Ray Brock
• Selkirk College, Trail – Cafeteria Skills Worker Program:  Geoff Tellier
• Selkirk College, Castlegar – Upgrade academic skills:  Jim Leitch
• BIGBY Place, Nelson – Center with recreation and craft activities:  Ange