Here's the main curriculum we use in our class!

LCCE is the instructional component you need for successful transition programming!

Use LCCE to help:

   Assess

• To establish present levels of student competency
• To determine IEP (Individual Education Program) goals and objectives
• To guide program planning and instructional content
• To measure student progress towards a set of standards

   Instruct

• With a systematic, comprehensive approach
• In the least restrictive environment
• Using proven best practices
• Using community resources
• Involving the family

   Comply

• With the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 1997)

Major Features

Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) teaches you to prepare students to function independently and productively as family members, citizens, and workers, and to enjoy fulfilling personal lives. LCCE is a motivating and effective classroom, home, and community-based curriculum.

The LCCE curriculum is an educational system designed to provide students who have mild mental disabilities, learning disabilities, or who are "at risk" with the important skills needed to function successfully as productive workers in the home and community.

The curriculum focuses on both the paid and unpaid work that one does as a responsible community and family member, a citizen and volunteer, an employee, and a productive leisure and avocational participant.

The Main Components: Daily Living Skills, Personal-Social Skills, and Occupational Guidance and Preparation

• DAILY LIVING SKILLS -- Teaches your students to manage personal finances (including using credit cards, check cards, etc.), household management, personal needs, family responsibilities, food preparation, citizenship responsibility, and leisure activities
  
• PERSONAL SOCIAL SKILLS -- Helps students develop self-awareness, self-confidence, socially responsible behavior, good interpersonal skills, independence, decision-making, and communication skills
  
• OCCUPATIONAL GUIDANCE AND PREPARATION -- Opens the door to occupational possibilities and choices in the 21st century, including appropriate work habits, seeking and maintaining employment, physical/manual skills, and specific job competencies
  

LCCE also includes IEP goals and objectives and three types of assessment devices: rating scales, standardized knowledge batteries, and performance batteries.

Three major elements distinguish the LCCE Curriculum: competencies, stages of career development, and instructional settings.

• Competencies

The LCCE approach addresses the question, "What skills must the individual have to become a more effective person?" Based on several years of continued research, 22 major skills or competencies (20 for the modified version) have been identified as critical for successful adult functioning.

Each competency falls under one of three broad curriculum areas: Daily Living Skills, Personal-Social Skills, or Occupational Guidance and Preparation.

The competencies are further divided into subcompetencies that make up instructional units that are further broken down into teaching objectives and lessons designed to meet those objectives.

• Stages of Career Development

Instruction of the LCCE competencies is organized into a readiness sequence that begins with career and/or self-awareness and continues through career exploration and career preparation.

• Instructional Settings

Although much of the LCCE instruction will occur in school, a considerable amount of home and community-based experience is included. The concept of "infusion" is encouraged -- that is, teaching the competencies in academic classes and inclusive settings whenever possible.