Lots goes on in Alliance City Schools over the summer, from classes to cleaning and reorganizing, everyone is preparing for a successful new school year.
\r\nOne group of students was especially busy working and learning- the special needs Intro to Employability students.
\r\nLed by Stephanie Barr and Lucinda Owens, the special needs class spent their summer course learning job skills that will help them to gain and retain work.
\r\n“Our hope is to make this a continuous summer program to provide much needed transition and employment skills,” notes the high school class description.
\r\nStudents visited Pizza Hut in Alliance where the manager spoke to them about employment and interview skills and answered questions.
\r\nThey also researched rules and routes of the SARTA bus system, rode the bus to Wal-Mart to purchase snacks for their classroom and then travelled back to AHS.
\r\nSome of the students were chosen to attend the class as coaches. Junior Mercedes Jenkins was one of the job coaches.
\r\n“They chose me because I am good at my work,” she said.
\r\nShe spent the week coaching her younger student peers on how to do tasks such as clean the classrooms.
\r\nStudents spent several days cleaning classrooms and learning custodial practices.
\r\nThe students have done a great job and any business will be lucky to have them as future employees!
