A big THANK YOU!

Students and staff members are geared up for another wonderful year and we want to thank the following businesses and organization for allowing our students to come in and learn life, work and social skills!


Would you like to add your business to our list? Please feel free to contact me about having a student come in and volunteer with your business or ogranization. Once you become familiar with our program and students, we can discuss long-term paid employment and the benefits of it for you.

Community Exploration: Picayune TV

 
Today staff and students of the Transition Training Facility went to a local media outlet called Victory Publishing, which produces the newspapers River Cities Tribune, The Picayune and multimedia component called PicayuneTV. Students had a chance to meet the Editor of both newspapers and to also explore the set of Picayune TV. They had a great time playing with the prompts and one student really got into the reporting aspect.
This was such a wonderful experience for our students and we look forward to doing more things with Victory Publishing in the coming months and years.

A housing tour

A special thanks to Mr. Bob Tueter of ReMax Marble Falls for giving my students a tour of some rental properties in the city limits. They enjoyed finding out what things cost and what you get for the amount of money you spend. It was very enriching!

Scavenger hunt for pumpkins....and information!

My students seem to get very bored by walking into a location and listening to a person discuss their services. I learned this the second week of school and decided to re-vamp my lessons. This lesson takes a lot of pre-planning, but is worth every ounce of effort!

Objective: Teach students a component of residential life planning by having them engage local utility companies for clues and information about the business.


I had the students engage in decorating a set of pumpkins, which they LOVED! They spent an entire morning deciding what to draw on them and then actually doing the art work. That afternoon, I took the pumpkins to a local restaurant and asked them to hold the pumpkins for us and put them on the tables the following day, for the students, when we came in.
The next morning the students came in to find the pumpkins missing and a note from "the bandit" with a clue as to where the pumpkins might be. The students loaded our program vehicle and we went on a scavenger hunt.
Each business was given a clue and asked to tell the students what services they provide when preparing to move into a residence. At each stop, students would inquire about the pumpkins, receive information about the services, and then get another clue.
Doing any more than 4 or 5 stops would lose their interest, so we had a limited number of stops before the final clue sent them to the restaurant.


I was so excited and happy that my students were eager to learn and gain more information about housing expenses while also having fun.