Activity 1: Blog Bling

Since I teach work-based-learning to special education students with the disability of Developmental Cognitive Disability (DCD), my video is about supported employment for these students.

Great Hires is a video about supported employment, and it is explains how it is possible for students in DCD programs to work in for profit businesses. This video will help me teach my students to identify jobs of interest for them, and it will help business leaders understand how participation with supported employment can be a positive for the business. It also helps me think about possible contacts for jobs for my students here in the Mounds View District. The video shows a variety of students in a variety of work settings.

Reflection: 1
I work with small groups of students, so the use of a blog, might help them to create a product over the course of  the year that highlights what we have been learning and the student reactions to the material. I can see students making or choosing their own video to demonstrate that they understand the content of lessons. It will be a fun way to bring the concepts of work to life for my students.