Welcome to the Integrated Service Providers (ISPs) page! This page will include events hosted by ISPs as well as the following courses: Core Skills, Transition Seminar, Language Links, and Responsibilities and Choices.

This communication course aims to teach our students how to be successful participants in school, at home, and in the community by building the thinking processes needed for successful and rewarding social interaction. Through this course, students will learn how their own social minds work, and increase their awareness of the behaviors that are helpful or disruptive to themselves and others. In addition, there will be a focus on recognizing behaviors that effect their own emotions, and can also play an integral role in development of relationships with others across different social contexts. This course will concentrate on what it means to be part of a “group.”
Objectives include:
• Recognizing different levels of our own and others’ dynamic social minds
• Navigating our own behaviors while considering the perspective of others

This course, taught once per week for 45 minutes, explores the social dynamics of a relationship (i.e. friend, family, romantic), and helps the students learn how to develop, enhance, and maintain these types of relationships in expected ways. Important concepts include conversational skills, bullying, and emotional regulation. This course is Pass/Fail, based upon participation and in-class assignments, and does not require homework. Taught by Ms. Fay & Dr. Reale

This freshman course will review and explore on more abstract levels many of the concepts students were taught in the first three Core Skills classes, and in Responsibilities and Choices I. Particular focus will be on different types of communication skills used in the real world, initiating and maintaining healthy social and emotional relationships, taking accountability and ownership of one’s actions, perspective taking as it pertains to working with, living with, or taking classes with others, and fully understanding the nuances of relationships (i.e. romantic, friendship, family) and how those relationships can impact decisions we make in our lives. This course will incorporate both a lecture and “real-world” component as students will have the opportunity to apply many of the skills being taught to both role-play scenarios in the classroom, and through community experiences. Students in this class will also be very involved in observing and reflecting both on their behaviors and communication methods, as well as their peers. Upon completion of this course students should be prepared to begin the Responsibilities and Choices coursework.

 

This course will provide juniors the opportunity to experience work type settings of high interest in the community, as well as participate in class discussions that will focus on the social, environmental, and behavior components needed to be successful at their respective internship placements. Each student will take part in two internships during the school year, each for a period of eight weeks, meeting one time each week. The seminar class will be facilitated by the Guidance Counselor, and each student will reflect weekly on how their experience is going, and how they are using the skill sets discussed.  In addition to the support from personnel at various internship placements, on-site support by Aaron School staff will also be provided initially so that students can transition into this type of experience more smoothly. This level of support will slowly decrease as students become more comfortable and independent in both their tasks and travel. Students enrolled in this course will also be part of an evaluative process where they will complete a self-reflective evaluation and journal pertaining to performance indicators designated both by the Guidance Counselor, and their on-site supervisor.  This process will also include mid-internship review, as well as a final evaluation completed by their on-site supervisor. Students will work on workplace skills through role plays and travel training to foster development in independent travel to their place of work.  This course will be a Pass/Fail course, and students must successfully complete the internship seminar course in order to participate in the Citizenship/Employment Seminar that will be offered during Senior Year.  The internships start dates will vary, but will all start in Quarter 1. 

This course spans the processes of reading, writing, and communication by exploring and implementing various strategies needed to be successful and effective readers, writers, and communicators. Students will learn strategies for obtaining and synthesizing information from text as well as constructing logical and informative written language products.

This course spans the processes of reading, writing, and communication by exploring and implementing various strategies needed to be successful and effective readers, writers, and communicators. Students will learn strategies for obtaining and synthesizing information from text as well as constructing logical and informative written language products.

This course primarily focuses on strengthening reading comprehension and written expression by utilizing a “bottom-up model” of learning. Students will use reading comprehension skills (I.e. “wh” questions, main idea, cause/effect, inferences, etc.) within structured tasks and then later link these specific skills in order to analyze and create a variety of passages.

This course is designed to help students prepare for life after high school.  Students will gain an understanding of how to apply life skills learned to real world situations.  Students will also learn to become more self-sufficient and develop a greater sense of independence.   Students will take part in field experiences that allow them to apply the skills they have learned to the real world.  This course will serve as a pre-cursor to the citizenship course to be taken during senior year.     

This course, taught once per week for 45 minutes, is designed to help students better understand their emotions as they pertain to various social situations and experiences that they have had in their lives, and the many choices that have come from those experiences. Students will gain an understanding of triggers and how those triggers can promote certain responses or choices. Students will also work to develop goals and strategies around making healthy choices as they navigate High School and beyond. Conflict resolution and time management will also be integral parts of this course as they pertain to taking responsibility for one’s actions/behaviors, generating alternatives for choice making, and being able to prioritize time to complete tasks. Students will be taught how to use active listening skills in difficult social interactions to help control emotional responses and make responsible choices. Additionally, at the end of each unit of this course, students will take part in a community based project/activity. This will help reinforce application of skills to real world experiences. This course will serve as a pre-cursor to the internship seminar course to be taken during junior year. This course is Pass/Fail, based upon the attached process rubric and in-class assignments, and does not require homework. Taught by A. Nagy & A. Reale

Transition Seminar meets one time per week for 45 minutes. The class is discussion based and psychoeducational in nature, introducing topics related to career, the world of work, and post-secondary education. Students will be able to identify short and long-term goals by the end of the course, specifically related to plans for the future.

Transition Seminar meets once per week for 45 minutes. Each class contains significant small group discussion time. Every other week is a Forum, or student-led process-oriented group. Some of the concepts discussed in Unit one include a career inventory, internet safety/cyberbullying, multiple intelligences, and personality styles. This course is not graded and does not require homework. Taught by Ms. Nagy & Dr. Reale

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