Quick Access Tools for Transition Planning
Take a look at these useful tools ATS has created that can help you and the IEP team in writing the Transition Plan. These tools align with the use of High Leverage Practices and Universal Design for Learning, which is encouraged for promoting learning for ALL students.
Transition Activities Mapping Tool (Updated June 2022) - Each goal within a student’s transition plan must include activities they will work on to help them reach their goal. Click here to find samples of activities that could help promote movement toward some of your student’s goals.
Guide for Life - To be successful, students need a strong foundation of soft skills – those intangible abilities that help people get along with others, communicate well, and make positive contributions in the workplace and beyond. The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education has identified five guiding principles that support educators, business leaders, communities, and students in their efforts to help all Arkansans develop these critical skills. The principles represent skills needed to thrive at home, school, on the job, and in the community: Growth (manage yourself). Understanding (know yourself). Interaction (build relationships). Decisions (make responsible choices), Empathy (be aware of others). The G.U.I.D.E. for Life program, with the support of Arkansas counselors and educators, is designed to give K-12 students a plan – a five-step process – that they can follow to achieve personal success.
Indicator-13 Cross Reference Tool - We recently revised this interactive checklist of eight IDEA requirements that need to be addressed on the Transition Plan. It also contains the three requirements for Arkansas. This tool will ease your mind in creating or reviewing a plan that will meet compliance. Click on each question to find the Arkansas Transition Plan forms with arrows indicating where information is needed on specific forms. Each of these components must be addressed on the Transition Plan and if any are omitted, it is considered non-compliant.
Solutions to Potential Barriers in Secondary Transition - This chart offers some possible strategies that can be used to alleviate barriers in secondary transition
*If you aren't sure how to use this tool, check out this video!
Organizer for Transition Components of the PLAAFP - This organizer assists in answering three questions:
1.) What are the student's strengths and needs related to Transition?
2.) How do the strengths and needs relate to the student's disability in Transition?
3.) How will/could the disability affect the student reaching their Post-Secondary goals?