Vocational tasks

You know that saying: "There's a lesson to be learned in everything.", well, it's true! If you're a teacher, there are many tedious little tasks you do on a daily basis that students can help with while learning job skills!

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

Here are tips on building pre-vocational skills in elementary & middle school. The earlier we begin targeting these skills the better.

You need vocational activities in your classroom. You also want them to be meaningful and actually teach new skills. But do your students somehow end up sorting the same 2 or 3 items over and over? Yikes. Here are a few quick ideas for more and easy ways

DIY Task Boxes for students in Autism Units or Vocational Training classes.

See what Aaron Adkins (aaronadkins0104) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas.

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Practice vocational skills with these classroom jobs and on campus job ideas for students of various skill levels!

This month's Workbasket Wednesday focuses on vocational tasks and prevocational tasks for sequencing and following directions. Check out the links as well.

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using stocking tasks as a vocational center in your self-contained classroom is a great way to work on job skills that are easily transferred to an occupation. My kids love to stock the drug store! Read my blog to find out how I set up this awesome task and grab this FREE one on the blog #lifeskills #specialeducation #transitionskills

Scooping "french fries"!

Packaging school supplies task box.

For this task students sort playing cards by their suit.