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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Transition University Answers the Challenge
Cynthia Connor, Lynetta A. Owens
(Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Jacksonville State University, USA)
Abstract: The challenge of providing same-age peer mentoring in a community based setting to high school students with disabilities has been answered over the past few years by providing programs at local universities. Transition University (TU) is an on-campus biweekly program located at Jacksonville State University (JSU). This program provides over 50 high school students who are 18–21 with same-age peer mentoring and instruction in transition skills by teacher candidates completing an undergraduate special education teacher program at JSU. The success of this program has led to an increase in social and vocational transition skills for the high school students, hands-on teaching opportunities for the teacher candidates, and collaborative interaction among the high school teachers. Transition University has also led to the development of a grant which will fund a two-year residential program soon to be implemented at JSU.
Key words: transition, teacher education, collaboration
