Job Skills

The student will be able to:

1. Identify their talents, interests, values, hobbies, strengths, and weaknesses to assist in a career choice.
2. Locate career choice establishments in their own city, state, and country.
3. Find and follow-up on job leads.
4. Successfully contact and interview employers.
5. Compose a resume and complete a variety of forms correctly (job application, W-2, insurance).
6. Present a positive attitude at school and on the job.
7. Exhibit successful work habits on the job.
8. Identify and demonstrate safety rule(s).
9. Manage stress properly, identify social agencies, and seek assistance when needed.
10. Perform daily monetary transactions (plan and carry out a budget, open a checking account, use bankcard).

Special Needs Science: Grades 7-10

The student will be able to:

1. Define the nature of forces, work, and energy (how they are used to our benefit).
2. Describe the fundamental life processes, classifications, diversity of living things, and inheritance of genetic traits.
3. Identify events in nature having a repeating pattern (spring, summer, fall, winter).
4. Describe gravity, friction, and motion.
5. Explain that everything with weight also has mass.
6. Understand that most living things need water, food, and air.
7. Understand that water is recycled.
8. Explain body systems and the major organs.
9. Explain that the brain enables people to think and send/receive messages to other parts of the body.
10. Explain how senses can warn individuals about danger (muscles help them fight, hide, and/or get out of danger).

Special Needs Economics

The student will be able to:

1. Understand how wants and needs affect goods and services.
2. Understand how prices are set.
3. Understand work and how to compute wages.
4. Explore how people work to obtain goods and services.
5. Explore the types of work people do and how that work benefits their family and community.
6. Give examples of how people are producers and consumers.
7. Identify ways people spend money and suggest reasons why people save money.
8. Suggest reasons why it is not possible for people to have all the things that they want.
9. Compare local prices of housing, clothing, and food with those in other parts of the world.
10. Give examples of items in their homes, classrooms, and neighborhoods that come from other countries.

Special Needs Math: Grades 7-10

The student will be able to:

1. Know when to add, subtract, multiply and/or divide.
2. Compute using addition, subtraction, multiplication and/or division.
3. Use estimation skills.
4. Use measurement skills.
5. Become proficient in selecting and using appropriate tools to solve problems (paper, pencil, calculator, computer).
6. Manage and budget money.

Special Needs Government

The student will be able to:

1. Have increased knowledge of how local, state, and federal government work.
2. Have a basic understanding of a democracy.
3. Have a basic understanding of the court system.
4. Explain major changes in the United States in the last 100 years.
5. Identify sources of authority in the school, community, local, state, and federal governments.
6. Give examples of how things change through voting.
7. Understand basic interactions between the United States and other countries.
8. Identify and understand basic Civil Rights.
9. Discuss the responsibilities, privileges, and limitations of leaders and citizens.
10. Explain how tax dollars provide some, not all, goods and services.

Special Needs English: Grades 7-12

The student will be able to:

1. Read for information and pleasure.
2. Express themselves effectively.
3. Comprehend what they've read.
4. Write for personal satisfaction and enjoyment.
5. Communicate appropriately with others.
6. Write for different purposes using proper grammar and correct spelling.
7. Follow written and oral directions.
8. Access information from a variety of resources.
9. Use new vocabulary when writing and/or speaking.
10. Listen and respond appropriately.

Special Needs Social Studies: Grades 7-8

The student will be able to:

1. Identify rules at school and in the community.
2. Give reasons for specific rules.
3. Identify responsible actions in themselves and others.
4. Evaluate the present and future impact of current affairs.
5. Demonstrate the ability to interpret maps, charts, and graphs.
6. Identify major historical figures in the eastern and western world and the influences upon our cultures.
7. Use directions to locate objects in the school and the community.
8. Identify the rights and responsibilities of people.
9. Describe a citizen's role.
10. Have a basic understanding of science and technology discoveries.

Special Needs U. S. History: Grades 11-12

The student will be able to:

1. Understand why we have wars.
2. Understand the depression and its effects on the country.
3. Understand how women obtained the right to vote.
4. Understand the differences between the North and the South before, during, and after the Civil War.
5. Understand different economic systems.
6. Understand unions and their role.
7. Identify Civil Rights.
8. Identify United States' leaders (past and present).
9. Explain the ways people from different cultures and ethnic groups contribute to our country.
10. Explain how groups such as unions and political parties have influenced the development of the U.S.