Steps to Self Determination: A Curriculum to Help Adolescents Learn to Achieve Their Goals

Self-determination is a key component of successful transition programs. Steps to Self-Determination is a curriculum designed to help secondary students learn to define and achieve goals that are important to them. Major areas included in the curriculum include:

• Progress tracking with the Self-Determination Knowledge Scale pretest/posttest
• Identifying strengths, weaknesses, needs, and preferences
• Developing decision-making skills
• Identifying rights and responsibilities
• Goal setting
• Anticipating consequences
• Enhancing creativity
• Developing communication skills
• Accessing resources and support
• Developing negotiation skills
• Experiencing and learning from outcomes

Instructor's Guide
Includes detailed lesson plans for 16 class sessions plus reproducible transparencies

CD-ROM
Contains the Studenty Activity Book and the Self-Determination Knowledge Scale in PDF format

DVD
Introduces the concept of self-determination

Student Activity Book
Can be reproduced from the CD-ROM or a print versoin may be purchased separately

Self-Determination Knowledge Scale
Can be reproduced from either the Instructor's Guide or the CD-ROM

COMPLETE PROGRAM (©2005) INCLUDES:

• Instructor's Guide containing detailed lesson plans for 16 class session plus reproducible transparencies.
• CD-ROM containing the Student Activity Book and Self-Determination Knowledge Scale on PDF files
• DVD introducing the concept of Self-Determination