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**Welcome Cal-Wheat students and parents.**
===It is extremely important that everyone be ready for what comes after high school. All high school students are excited about graduating and moving onto the next step, until they get there and realize they do not have a clue what is next!===


 * This site is designed to help you and your parents prepare for the future and give you a road map to follow. You will have web sites to visit, inventories to complete, and you will learn about yourself, learn about careers, learn about colleges, and learn about personal finance issues plus much more. This web site will grow throughout the year, so check often.**

Secondary transition is the process of preparing students for life, including post-secondary education and/or training, employment, and community living-> (Living, Learning, and Working). These three areas are often referred to as the student’s post secondary outcomes; these are the most important components and will be our focus for the high school years.

Students in the high school transition class will begin to explore what their post-secondary outcome goals are through career exploration activities. Each student will participate in interest inventories and career assessments that will help them learn about themselves, their career interests and then develop career goals. Each student will have independent interests and strengths that will help determine where they may be the most successful, each of the transition plans and activities will help guide the student to their own unique goal or goals.

The high school transition class is designed to help the student create their own path between high school and the opportunities that lie outside of high school in the areas of education, training, working, and independent living. The transition plan involves many people, all who have an interest in the student’s success after they graduate from high school. The partnerships that develops between the family, school personnel, post-secondary services and program providers, and local community members are a must. Effective transitioning involves purposeful planning among all of the people involved in the transition team. The team will focus on the student’s strengths, interests, preferences, and needs to identify the services, and supports that they will need to achieve their post-secondary goals.


 * The Transition Class will focus on helping the student become independent in the areas that will help them be successful in high school and in all areas of the post-secondary environment.**

**Self-Determination and Self-Advocacy**

 * The student will learn about Self-Determination and Self Advocacy skills. These are two of the most important skills for a successful transition to the adult world. Self-Determination is knowing and accepting who you are, where you want to go in life and develop a plan to get there successfully. Self-Advocacy means the ability to understand and explain your disability, what are your strengths, and what are your challenges, and most importantly how and when to ask for help when you need it.

**Now and Later Expectations**

 * Whether it is something you’re aware of now or something that you will realize later, your teachers are preparing you for your future, rules, guidelines, and appropriate behaviors are skill builders for expectations that you will need in life, no matter your desired path or outcome.**

Listed below are several expectations that are incorporated into the classroom and are designed to help you to establish skills that will go with you beyond the doors of Calamus-Wheatland High School.

**Top 5 Classroom Expectations:**

 * Be on Time ---> Employers want employees who have a record of being on time and have good attendance
 * Be Prepared ---> Successful adults are able to handle the expectations of their jobs and family
 * Act appropriately ---> Having a professional, let's get the job done attitude will help you be successful on the job
 * Be respectful ---> Positive Attitude has everything to do with successfully obtaining that dream job!
 * Be ready to work ---> Successful employees understand that when at work they need to do their job

All of these expectations are simple, yet have a great impact to you and others in the classroom. These same simple expectations will work well for you in your future.