More than half of students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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It is important for my students to receive practice with job skills so they can learn the skills they need to have when working in the workforce. An industrial shredder would provide my students another option to practice their vocational skills. While each of my students practice vocational skills in my classroom, they each have individual cognitive levels and skill sets. The vocational tasks we currently use are designed for students who are either high or low functioning. A shredder is a tool that would benefit all students due to the simplicity of putting paper in a large machine repeatedly. Repetitive tasks are soothing and can benefit students who struggle with anxiety and more specifically, autism.
Individuals with disabilities often struggle to find jobs on their cognitive level after they leave high school. It is my goal as their teacher to provide them with basic skills that will help them become independent and employable individuals after they leave Norman North. Obtaining a basic skill like paper shredding will help them find job opportunities in office settings around their community. Shredding paper will also lead my students to recycling opportunities around our school building. We currently gather papers that need to be shredded in our classroom and push them down to the main office in a shopping cart to our 'Authorized Personnel Only' room. After an authorized personnel employee unlocks the room for us, we can begin shredding paper. Having our own shredder in our the classroom would save us time and energy, create an office atmosphere in our classroom, and give more students the opportunity to use the machine at any time of the day.
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It is important for my students to receive practice with job skills so they can learn the skills they need to have when working in the workforce. An industrial shredder would provide my students another option to practice their vocational skills. While each of my students practice vocational skills in my classroom, they each have individual cognitive levels and skill sets. The vocational tasks we currently use are designed for students who are either high or low functioning. A shredder is a tool that would benefit all students due to the simplicity of putting paper in a large machine repeatedly. Repetitive tasks are soothing and can benefit students who struggle with anxiety and more specifically, autism.
Individuals with disabilities often struggle to find jobs on their cognitive level after they leave high school. It is my goal as their teacher to provide them with basic skills that will help them become independent and employable individuals after they leave Norman North. Obtaining a basic skill like paper shredding will help them find job opportunities in office settings around their community. Shredding paper will also lead my students to recycling opportunities around our school building. We currently gather papers that need to be shredded in our classroom and push them down to the main office in a shopping cart to our 'Authorized Personnel Only' room. After an authorized personnel employee unlocks the room for us, we can begin shredding paper. Having our own shredder in our the classroom would save us time and energy, create an office atmosphere in our classroom, and give more students the opportunity to use the machine at any time of the day.