“Soft Skills to Pay the Bills is a curriculum developed by the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor to help teach youth those important soft skills or workforce readiness skills.” A set of lesson plans to teach skills to teens with disabilities to understand workplace behavior. Does require some upper elementary school reading/writing. Visit https://youth.gov/feature-article/soft-skills-pay-bills and https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/ .
K. Clark Burt
Researcher of transmedia and games for students with learning disabilities
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Clark is a special education teacher and PhD researcher in Melbourne, Australia. His current research focus is on ICT and games' ability to teach vocabulary and reading comprehension to students with literacy learning difficulties.
RESEARCH
Trans
media
Using different mediums to show educational content
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LITERACY
Vocab
ulary
Games offer a unique tactile experience to learning.
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SPEC ED
Disa
bilities
As rates of disabilities in school-aged children increase, teachers will need to find innovative ways to meet the diverse needs of learners.
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The Electric Company
Want to know where Clark's passion for transmedia all started? Learn about 'The Electric Company'. This TV show (relaunched in 2008) from Sesame Workshop promotes literacy understanding using evidence-based practices.