self-determination: the meaningful outcome
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Self-Determination: The Meaningful Outcome
Self-Determination
What is SD?What are the traits of a SD Person?Why is SD Important?
Self-Determined People Will Make choices and set goals based
upon an understanding of their interests, skills, and limits
Express their goals to help build support
Establish a plan to attain their goal Evaluate their plan Adjust their goal or plan
Self-Determination
Martin & Huber Marshall, 1993
Self-Determination Constructs
• Self-awareness• Self-advocacy• Self-efficacy• Decision-making• Independent performance• Self-evaluation• Adjustment
Motivational Impact
Choice making appears to enhance motivation for individuals with severe disabilities
Bambara, Ager, & Koger (1994)
Is This Choice?
Or, is this choice?
Goal Attainment
From an awareness of personal needs individuals will choose goals, then doggedly pursue them (Martin
& Huber Marshall, 1993)
SD is a person’s ability to define and achieve goals from a base of knowing and valuing oneself (Field & Hoffman, 1994, 1995)
SD is the repeated use of skills necessary to act on the environment in order to attain goals that satisfy self-defined needs and interests (Mithaug, 1996)
SD Is a By Product of Skills and Opportunities
Skills
opportunity
Self-Determination Bits
SD is all important for individuals with disabilities
Attainment of SD is the crucial goal for people with disabilities
SD is an inherent right
Choices initiate SD
Importance
Successful people are self-determined SD Increases school
outcomes SD increases post-
school outcomes
Now, What do we do????
Do We Sit and Wait Until Someone Is out Of School?
No, we get started now! But How?
Infuse SD Instructional Opportunities Into Secondary
Education
Step 1: Choosing Goals Based Upon Your Interests, Skills, and Limits
Step 2: Student Participation in Educational Decision-Making
Answer These Questions
Does the student: Opportunity
Begin meeting by stating purpose?
0 1 2 3 4 5
Introduce participants? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Review past goals and performance?
0 1 2 3 4 5
Express skills and limits? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Express interests? 0 1 2 3 4 5
State needed support? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Step 3: Take Action - Planning, Evaluating, and Adjusting
It’s fun to dream, but how do
students make dreams happen?
My Plan
Where do I want to work after graduation?
Where do I want to learn after graduation?
Where do I want to live after graduation?
What do I need to learn now to learn where I want?
What do I need to learn now to live where I want?
What do I need to learn now to work where I want?
Collaborative Effort
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