A Case Study of an Exemplary Transition Program in High School

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine what life skills the teacher is teaching her students, and why she chose those skills to be taught at this point in the student’s schooling. The study investigates what skills the teacher thinks are most important for students to learn so they can live as independent as possible, what the teacher is teaching her students in a life skills course, and why the teach chose a certain skill for the student to work on. After data collection through one interview and multiple surveys done in Williston High School, three themes emerged. These themes are the skills the teacher is teaching the students in the class, individualizing the content in the class to reflect each of the student’s interests, and where and how the skills in the life skills class are being taught.