Students with more significant disabilities often require instruction in daily living and independent living skills. These students also benefit from community-based instruction and work-related or job-related skills instruction. Special education teachers utilize high-leverage practices in special education and specially designed instruction to teach students how to become more independent in daily living activities and work-related activities. Among others, some high-leverage practices teachers utilize in instruction include adapting curriculum tasks and materials for specific learning goals, providing scaffolded supports, providing intensive support, and teaching students to maintain and generalize new learning across time and settings.
Brittney Faircloth, a Special Education Teacher from Laurens County Showcase Transition Program, and Riley Troili, a Special Education Teacher for 3rd, 4th, & 5th-grade students at Bleckley County Elementary School, worked together with East Central GLRS to organize Skills 4 Life Days, a two-day event hosted at Heart of Georgia RESA. This event allowed students to acquire essential life skills and provided teachers with valuable resources and activities that can be readily incorporated into their classrooms.
Heart of Georgia RESA Director Hugh Kight, Celebrity Chef at Laurens County Showcase Transition Program.
Mr. Hugh Kight, who serves as the Director of Heart of Georgia RESA, was invited to take on the role of celebrity chef at the Laurens County Showcase Transition Program. This Showcase Transition Program focuses on delivering employability and life skills training to young adults aged between eighteen and twenty-two with disabilities. As a celebrity chef during the event, Kight worked alongside the students to help them practice crucial skills like preparing, cooking, and serving food. In his session, Mr. Kight guided the students through preparing coleslaw, baked beans, blackberry cobbler, and smash burgers.
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