Creating jobs within your classroom gives your students responsibility and allows them to generalize skills previously taught.
In my last blog (click here to view), I shared my weekly life skills lesson plan, and in that plan, I incorporated vocational jobs as part of our Friday lesson. Students would complete 3-4 vocational jobs each week, and we would rotate through the jobs each week.
Below, I have created a list of vocational jobs I had set up in my classroom.
Fold towels
- Have different sizes of towels for students to fold.
Sort laundry
- Create two baskets for students to separate colors and whites.
Fold t-shirts
- Students use a folding t-shirt board to fold t-shirts easily.
Hang up clothes
- Put t-shirts, pants, dresses, etc., in a laundry basket and have students hang the items on a clothing rack.
Put away laundry (dresser drawers)
- Students put t-shirts, towels, and socks away into the drawers using three-drawer plastic storage.
Stock Items:
- Vending snacks/drinks
- Toothbrushes
- Seed packets
- Pens/pencils
- Grocery Items
- Library Books
- Gift Cards
Filing Items:
- Utility bills
- Paper (by color)
- Cards by dates
- Letter cards
- Word Cards
- Cards with last names
Other Jobs:
- Shred paper
- Crimp paper
- Crush Pop Cans
- Sort mail
- Find grocery items from list (2 levels)
- Use a list to find grocery items and determine the next dollar amount (2 levels)
17 Responses
The school I teach at does these type of job task. In our Daily Living Skills classes the teacher uses what you have shown. In a Math class I helped in the teacher used the grocery items as a math task of having a list to shop with than then the cashier would ring the items up and the student would pay with play money. I do believe our DLS classes use them as well.
You have some great ideas
Love all of this. Fantastic job.
Thanks for reading!
Are the vending machine visuals available? My principal made me a double sided peg board that I showed from your blog.
Ashley (the blogger) made that activity and since they are name-brand products, it would be illegal to sell the photos, sorry!
I think that this is a great thing. I was hoping to set up a store in one of our offices and would love to know how to get the printouts of the items you have.
Check out the freebie included in this post here: https://theautismhelper.com/vocational-job-series-part-1-stocking-how-to-and-freebie/
I’d like to know as well how I can get a those printouts as well! I’ve been trying to set something up like that as well.
Here you go! https://theautismhelper.com/vocational-job-series-part-1-stocking-how-to-and-freebie/
I am the Daily Living Skills teacher for my school k-5. We are starting a school munchy cart this year . I travel from classroom to classroom but can use the cafeteria . I would like to do these set ups with my 4-5 graders as they will be running the cart. Do you have any ideas that would best word for a traveling teacher
Great question! I would have all of the visuals ready to go and assign each student specific jobs!
Do you have the laundry visuals available to purchase or download?
Hi Mickey! Sorry – I don’t!
I love this and am so excited to get started with shelf stocking with my life skills class. Do you have any data sheets or data collection systems you can share to help track these skills?
I created a sheet with each student’s name and a list of all the jobs. At the end of the week, I marked which ones they completed to determine what to assign for the following week.
These are wonderful Ideas that I will be employing next year with some of our Learners. Thanks for these excellent ideas. Well Done!
SO happy to hear this was helpful! Thanks for reading 🙂