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TCP has been integral to the success of my Career Transition class, and I watched students develop a routine working through the lessons together and watching each other play through career paths. We would even play through some as a class on the board, and have students argue and defend their choices as they called them out to me. Quite a lot of fun, and students learned to justify their choices and watch the consequences play out.
I used your finance sections to “sandwich” my two month long financial literacy challenge, culminating in March Money Madness. I got to see students work their way from “how do you tell nickels and quarters apart?” to arguing with me about why rent is so expensive and what they need to cut to make their budgets work.
I found the program and curriculum to be engaging and in alignment with our standards for Transition and Planning, as well as Unique Skills. Students are able to work on self-regulation and executive functioning, while being provided with choices to take ownership of how their day will unfold. Additionally, students are prompted with opportunities that allow them to choose a path and receive an immediate consequence for their choice (packing/bringing lunch/versus buying lunch at their job site). The social skill building activities built into the program would help students tremendously while preparing for job placement and employment, right down to “what to do” if you have a need that should be discussed with a supervisor.
The curriculum and videos on the Google slides can easily be transferred over to PowerPoint and would provide our teachers with an excellent curriculum resources that aligns to our standards. Overall, I do feel like this curriculum would be highly sought after and utilized daily in our transition courses, and perhaps extended transition as well.
I work with moderate to severe students and they all love Teen Career Path! They really enjoy playing the Career Game, which we play all together as a group. Navigating throughout the game teaches my students life skills in fun way and maintains a higher level of student involvement and participation than during any other activity or lesson. This interactive activity allows students to make actual daily living skills choices and virtually experience the outcome whether right or wrong, giving them the opportunity to manage real world situations.
I love the interface you created. It’s brilliant. I trialed with typical 9th grader He liked it and would do it again!
I wanted to share my students experience with Teen Career Path. It can be very challenging to hold a student’s attention especially at the end of the year. However, with Teen Career Path students are excited to learn and fully engaged in the experience. They love how closely it simulates real work experiences! It has been such a fun way to engage students and keep them learning until the very last day of school. I look forward to continuing to use the program in the following school year.