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Glossary	Description
Career Assessment	A process, beginning as early as elementary school and continuing through adulthood, that assists a student in developing educational plans to acquire skills related to employment.
Community Agency	A service provider offering programs such as vocational rehabilitation, mental health, mental retardation, and housing to community residents.
Community of Practice	Students, families, school-age services and program providers, post-school services and program providers, and local community members who share an interest and passion about secondary transition, and who deepen their understanding and knowledge of post secondary outcomes by interacting on an ongoing basis.
Community-based Instruction	Regularly scheduled educational experiences conducted outside the school setting.
Community-referenced Instruction	Information and training conducted within the classroom that is related to situations, issues, and settings outside the school building.
Courses of Study	A list of the courses and other educational activities that the student will be involved in prior to graduation which support his desired post-school outcomes.
Functional Vocational Assessment	An evaluation that provides information about job or career interests, aptitudes, and skills. It can be a combination of standardized and performance-based measures and should indicate what a student can do and can learn, and should be performed in a natural setting.
Interagency Agreement	A formal written understanding among agencies regarding their shared responsibilities for providing information and services.
Interagency Collaboration	A process among several agencies in a given community that involves the co-planning of service delivery and the shared responsibility for the services provided for students with disabilities.
Job Coach	A professional or paraprofessional who provides individual or group assistance to a student in job placement, travel training, and skill training at a job site. The job coach frequently provides assessment information to the student's IEP team.
Local Interagency Transition Planning:	Collaboration among various community service providers and local school districts to address the needs of students with disabilities.
Local Transition Coordinating Council	An interagency group consisting of school districts, intermediate units, community service providers, parents, and others. The council addresses the current transition needs of the students with disabilities to prepare the student for post-school activities, and to assure community supports for those activities. .
Mentoring	An instructional process, usually one-to-one, that involves an individual with knowledge, expertise, or experience working with a student to transfer information and skills.
Post-school Outcomes	A student's projected life choices following high school. The IEP team should ensure that a student's secondary educational program prepares the student to be successful after high school in the areas of employment, education/training, residential living, community participation, and recreation/leisure.
Related Services	Services that help a student benefit from his or her special education programs. Special transportation, speech therapy, counseling, school health services, and physical therapy are examples of related services. An inclusive list and full definitions are in Part 300 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA '97).
Self-advocacy	The ability of a student to effectively communicate or assert interests, desires, needs, and rights, as well as to explain his or her disability and its effects on learning and other life activities.
Standards-based Transition Activities	Those activities that, after examining the component skills involved, are then aligned with the appropriate academic standard. For example, having a student practice self-advocacy skills for a post-secondary education outcome would relate to the following reading, writing, speaking, and listening standards: 1.6.11A - Ask clarifying questions 1.6.11 B - Summarize and reflect on what has been heard 1.6.11 C - Speak using skills appropriate to the situation 1.6.11 D - Contribute to discussions by responding with relevant information 1.6.11 E - Participate in discussions by initiating conversations.
Transition Services	A group of coordinated activities provided over a period of time that support a high school student with a disability in the transition from high school to adult life. These services focus on what the student wants to do after high school in the areas of education or training, employment, and community living.
Travel Training	Instruction that enables students with disabilities to learn the skills necessary to move effectively and safely from place-to-place within their environment.
Vocational Assessment	A comprehensive process conducted over a period of time that serves as a basis for planning an educational program. Its purpose is to identify individual characteristics, education, and training needs.
Vocational Education	Approved educational programs offering a sequence of courses that are directly related to the preparation of individuals for paid employment with a career objective. Examples of such programs are carpentry, masonry, childcare, and cosmetology.

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