Objective: EnvisionIT (EIT) is a free, evidence-based, standards-aligned, college and career readiness curriculum for 21st century students in middle and high school. EIT is a teacher-guided, digital curriculum for students with and without disabilities focused on helping students develop key literacy and career skills needed for the 21st Century workplace.
Content Taught
The EnvisionIT curriculum is designed to teach fundamental 21st Century skills to students with and without disabilities in 4 key competency areas:
- Transition Planning/Career Readiness
- Information Technology (IT) Literacy
- Reading/Writing
- Financial Literacy
Teaching Procedures
This practice does not have a Lesson Starter, but you can find detailed information about using it.
- EnvisionIT - a free curriculum with teacher resources.
- Lombardi, A. R., Izzo, M. V., Gelbar, N., Murray, A., Buck, A., Johnson, V., Hsiao, J., Wei, Y., & Kowitt, J. (2017). Leveraging information technology literacy to enhance college and career readiness for secondary students with disabilities. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 46(3), 389-397. Available at https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-vocational-rehabilitation/jvr875.
- Lombardi, A. R., Izzo, M. V., Rifenbark, G. G., Murray, A., Buck, A., Monahan, J., & Gelbar, N. (2017). The impact of an online transition curriculum on secondary student reading: A multilevel examination. Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 40(1), 15-24, Available at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2165143416681287.
- Lombardi, A., Rifenbark, G., Tarconish, E., Volk, D., Monahan, J., Buck, A., Izzo, M., & Murray, A. (2019). Main and moderating effects of an online transition curriculum on career readiness. Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals.
- Izzo, M.V., Yurick, A., Nagaraja, H.N., & Novak, J.A. (2010). Effects of a 21st-Century curriculum on students’ information technology and transition skills. Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 33(2), 95-105. Available at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0885728810369348.
