Planning for transition services includes preparing school personnel for the responsibility of providing services to students with disabilities. To prepare for this responsibility, prepare a presentation that you could give to a superintendent's leadership team to document the provision of an appropriate transition program. Utilize any type of technology or other documentation procedures you prefer to accomplish this task. Information pertaining to all of the questions below is addressed in Kochhar-Bryant & Greene (2009).
Be sure to include the following:
1. What kinds of goals and transition formats must be created to help teachers develop good transition plans? (Be sure to provide actual or hypothetical examples.)
2. What meetings need to be conducted with school personnel for training purposes?
3. What professionals will be involved in the transition program training sessions?
4. How will you provide for the four transition pathways for students with disabilities?
5. How will you prepare students to conduct student-directed IEP transition planning meetings?
6. What follow-up and follow-along procedures and practices will be used to monitor post-school IEP services?
7. How will you evaluate the quality of the transition program?
8. How many of the ten steps in planning to implement interagency agreements for transition will you utilize?
9. What best practices in transition for culturally and linguistically diverse youth with disabilities will you utilize?
10. Any additional topics to address? Include them in your final summary.