Champions™ For Students With Special Needs

The Champions™ Daily Living Skills Program

The Champions™ Daily Living Skills Program provides educators with carefully constructed lesson plans to help students with special needs achieve greater confidence and self-sufficiency.

Each lesson plan is built around a skill-oriented theme and designed to teach necessary social, personal, life, and self-concept skills. The engaging activity-based program covers safety, nutrition, grooming, wellness, and much more, with an emphasis on translating skills learned in the classroom into real-life situations.

Designed for those preparing to enter the workforce

24 lessons teach six primary objectives like managing finances, job seeking, and planning

Lessons and activities focus on teaching real-life skills

Special recognition plan honors each student’s achievements

The Champions™ Transition Program

The Champions™ Transition Program prepares students with special needs For independence. Learning for Life has developed the Champions™ Transition Program to help school districts, teachers, and parents guide their students with special needs through the process of leaving high school.

The program includes fun and engaging activities and lessons to help teachers instruct students ages 16-21 in the life skills needed to achieve self-sufficiency and success as an independent, productive member of society.

Designed for all ages

57 unique lesson plans for individual or group use

Lessons and activities focus on teaching real-life skills

Special recognition plan honors each student’s achievements

FOCUS AREAS

Developing personal, social and civil awarenesses
Learning how emotions affect the behavior of oneself and others
Learning skills for independent living

As a Learning for Life volunteer, I’ve had many opportunities to visit, observe, and teach Learning for Life lesson plans in a variety of classrooms. The attentiveness and eagerness to learn was displayed by students each time I taught a lesson plan. The most memorable moment I experienced was when a fifth grade student from Cass Street School (K–8) shared with me how he had taken a personal pledge to become more ‘responsible’ as a scholar, son, team player, and big brother. He also shared how he would start every morning by reading inspirational messages on responsibility and accountability to help make his learning a lot easier that day.

Penny Sikora, Learning for Life Membership Chair