Educator Resources
Free Curriculum
Direct Your Future™ - Career Exploration Curriculum
Direct Your Future is a career exploration program for middle school and high school students. Through a series of modules, students are challenged to focus on themselves and the world of work and to learn how to map out a future career path.
Explore Work Student Portfolio
Explore Work consists of a series of web-based modules that align with the five required WIOA Pre-Employment Transition Services activities.
Online, interactive training designed for transition-aged students who are deaf or hard of hearing. The training utilizes three questions: Who Am I? What Do I Want? How Do I Get There?
The self-directed employment planning modules are free, online learning series helps people with disabilities think about their integrated employment options, understand employment supports, and create a plan to achieve their integrated employment goals.
Online, Learn the steps you can take to prepare for the workplace or further education after graduation. Great for students to learn on their own or with support from an instructor or family member
- Free curriculum and assessments:
- Zarrow Center
- Skills For Life
- Independent Living Skills Assessment:
- Institute of Person Centered Planning:
- Link to educational best practice and lesson plan ideas:
- Online "community" for students in middle school to explore relevant issues:
- Preference indicator assessments for people with significant disabilities:
- Resources for all age groups:
Online modules for educators
- Fast Fact:
- Modules on a variety of transition topics:
- Modules on employment issues:
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Staying Safe at Work: Staying Safe at Work: A curriculum for Teaching Workers with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities about Health and Safety on the Job
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Youth@WorkYouth@Work—Talking Safety Curriculum
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A Safety and Health Curriculum for Young Workers
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Instructor Guides : series of six short videos designed to guide instructors of the NIOSH Youth@Work—Talking Safety curriculum through its key concepts
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●Career Readiness Workbook: Berkeley
●Washington Career Bridge: Take the QUIZ
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NextGen Personal Finance for budgeting activities
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Cents and Sensibility to learn about money management