Unlocking Potential: A Guide to Transition and Life Skills

Life skills stick best when they are practiced in real routines. This resource shows special education teachers how to embed functional skills instruction into the school day, from task analysis to generalization.

What's Inside

• An Independent Living Skills Continuum from foundational to advanced skills
• Guidance on integrating functional skills into school settings (classroom jobs, cafeteria routines, vocational tasks)
• A breakdown of why transitions are teachable skills, linking executive function to self-determination
• A Linking Routines to Target Skills chart connecting classroom routines to IEP goal areas
• A prompting hierarchy for skill acquisition (physical, verbal, gestural, visual)
• Task analysis examples, including a step-by-step "Making a Sandwich" sequence
• Example scenarios for transition practice (fire drills, substitute days, new classrooms, field trips)
• A Progress Monitoring Schema (Assess, Plan, Implement, Evaluate)
• A Flowchart for Planning Generalization across people, settings, and materials

How It Helps You

• Links classroom routines to IEP goal areas
• Gives prompting and task analysis examples you can use right away
• Plans for generalization across people, settings, and materials

Ways to Use It

Use it for classroom planning, paraprofessional training, or IEP goal development.

Who It's For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals.

Format

Digital guide. Instant download.

Need more than one?

If you use professional development resources with your team, this course fits alongside many others on special education practice. The Special Education Courses Bundle includes this resource and more in one download, and you save 66% compared to buying each item separately.