Get a Job Curriculum

Job-related social and self-management skills are essential for students with special needs. Workers with disabilities regularly lose jobs because of difficulties with social situations in job settings. To be successful in getting and keeping a job, students with disabilities need interview skills, social skills in a variety of areas, and most of all preparedness for the many and varied challenges of a job setting. As a result, they need lots of time to learn and practise vocational skills.

This curriculum teaches such competencies as:

• the ability to self-examine one’s strengths and weaknesses
• personal appearance
• creative problem-solving skills
• self-confidence and assertiveness
• advocacy skills
• and accepting responsibility

The book has a sequence of 20 structured lessons. Each lesson features a measurable objective, teaching suggestions, and multiple student hand-outs. The hand-outs can be photocopied or printed out from the PDF. The curriculum encourages the use of video taping to assess and review interviewing skills.

Co-authored by speech-language pathologist Corinne Thomas-Kersting and special education teacher and occupational therapist Dona Schumacher.

Covered spiral bound book, 80 pages, includes a Win/Mac PDF CD with printable resources (classroom licence), 2008