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What is
Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) ?
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LCCE is the instructional component you
need for successful transition programming!
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Use LCCE to help:
Assess
- To establish present levels of student competency
- To determine IEP (Individual Education Program) goals and
objectives
- To guide program planning and instructional content
- To measure student progress towards a set of standards
Instruct
- With a systematic, comprehensive approach
- In the least restrictive environment
- Using proven best practices
- Using community resources
- Involving the family
Comply
- With the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA
2004)
Major Features
Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) teaches you to prepare students
to function independently and productively as family members, citizens,
and workers, and to enjoy fulfilling personal lives. LCCE is a
motivating and effective classroom, home, and community-based
curriculum.
The LCCE curriculum is an educational system designed to provide
students who have mild mental disabilities, learning disabilities, or
who are "at risk" with the important skills needed to function
successfully as productive workers in the home and community.
The curriculum focuses on both the paid and unpaid work that one does
as a responsible community and family member, a citizen and volunteer,
an employee, and a productive leisure and avocational participant.
The Main Components: Daily Living Skills, Personal-Social
Skills, and Occupational Guidance and Preparation
- DAILY LIVING SKILLS -- Teaches your students to
manage personal finances (including using credit cards, check cards,
etc.), household management, personal needs, family responsibilities,
food preparation, citizenship responsibility, and leisure activities
- PERSONAL SOCIAL SKILLS -- Helps students develop
self-awareness, self-confidence, socially responsible behavior, good
interpersonal skills, independence, decision-making, and communication
skills
- OCCUPATIONAL GUIDANCE AND PREPARATION -- Opens the
door to occupational possibilities and choices in the 21st century,
including appropriate work habits, seeking and maintaining employment,
physical/manual skills, and specific job competencies
LCCE also includes IEP goals and objectives and three types of
assessment devices: rating scales, standardized knowledge batteries, and
performance batteries.
Three major elements distinguish the LCCE Curriculum:
competencies, stages of career development, and instructional
settings.
The LCCE approach addresses the question, "What skills must the
individual have to become a more effective person?" Based on several
years of continued research, 22 major skills or competencies (20 for the
modified version) have been identified as critical for successful adult
functioning.
Each competency falls under one of three broad curriculum areas:
Daily Living Skills, Personal-Social Skills, or Occupational Guidance
and Preparation.
The competencies are further divided into subcompetencies that make
up instructional units that are further broken down into teaching
objectives and lessons designed to meet those objectives.
- Stages of Career Development
Instruction of the LCCE competencies is organized into a readiness
sequence that begins with career and/or self-awareness and continues
through career exploration and career preparation.
Although much of the LCCE instruction will occur in school, a
considerable amount of home and community-based experience is included.
The concept of "infusion" is encouraged -- that is, teaching the
competencies in academic classes and inclusive settings whenever
possible.
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