Self-Advocacy

Self-Advocacy
Social Studies- 7th – 12th Grade
Duration- 4 weeks
Objectives:

As a result of this unit’s lessons, special education students will become aware of their rights as students and citizens, and become self advocates in order to facilitate their transition into inclusive settings.

Materials

Art supplies – such as color paper, glue, scissors, and poster boards
Digital camera
Digital video camera
Digital video cassettes

Activities:

• Create a class bulletin board outlining students’ rights and responsibilities
• Define their exceptionality and determine how their exceptionality affects them
• Use subscription databases and other electronic resources to research exceptionality
• Identify and research information on role-models that have their same exceptionality
• Complete a multimedia project outlining what self-advocacy means, what it entails in practice, how it affects educational experiences and outcomes, and list role-models that have conquered their exceptionality using multimedia video and pictures completed by the students

Assessment:

1. Teacher portfolio and rubric assessment of multimedia project outlining what self-advocacy means, what it entails in practice, how it affects educational experiences and outcomes, and lists information on role-models that have conquered their exceptionality.

2. Students will recognize educational strategies that accommodate their educational needs as determined by a rubric assessment of their work.

Home Learning

Students will read for 30 minutes each day.