Map Your Plan: Transition Goals
Visual planning for student-led transition meetings, required under IDEA from age sixteen.
Session summary (SOAP)
Stays on this screen. Nothing is saved or sent.
Mark a card Correct, Correct with cue or Incorrect and the summary writes itself here.
How to run it
Draw badly and quickly. The picture is a thinking tool, not a product, and a student who is shading is not planning. The circled supports card is the one to spend real time on — most students have never been told which of their accommodations stop at graduation, and finding out is often the moment transition planning becomes real to them. The ideal-work-week card asks for hours, transportation and one thing that is just for the student, and transportation is where most of these plans quietly fail. The last card asks for a one-page version presented aloud, which is the point of the whole board.
Cueing ladder
Start at the top. Add support one step at a time.
- IndependentSet up the situation and wait for the student to respond on their own.Log as correct
- Nonverbal cueUse a look, a gesture or a point to the visual cue card.Log as cued
- Indirect promptAsk 'What could you say now?' or 'How do you think they feel?'Log as cued
- ModelShow what to say or do, then run the moment again so the student can try it.Log as cued
Adjust it
Give a script or two choices of what to say, and practise with you before a peer.
Role-play with a new partner, or add a twist the student has not planned for.
Matching IEP goal
Given school and community scenarios, Student will state a need or a plan clearly to the right person in 4 of 5 opportunities across 3 consecutive sessions, given no more than an indirect prompt.
Send it home through the parent portal →About this activity
Eight drawing tasks for a student-led transition meeting: draw where you want to be two years after graduation and label three things in the picture; draw the steps between now and that picture, numbered; draw the people on your team and what each one actually helps with; draw the supports you use now and circle the ones that end at graduation. That last one produces the most useful conversation of any card here.
What to listen for
Watch whether the steps between now and the picture are concrete. Get a job is not a step; apply to three places by March is. Notice who appears on the team drawing — a student whose team is entirely family and school staff has not yet identified the adults who will be there afterwards, which is worth addressing directly.
Carrying it home
The team drawing is worth showing the family. It usually starts a conversation about who does what after graduation that nobody had scheduled and everybody needed.
What's in this activity
- Draw where you want to be two years after graduation. Label three things in the picture.
- Draw the steps between right now and that picture. Number them.
- Draw the people on your team. Label what each one actually helps with.
- Draw one obstacle in the way, then draw one route around it.
- Draw your ideal work week: hours, transportation, and one thing that is just for you.
- Draw how you would get to work or class without a ride from family.
- Draw the supports you use now, and circle the ones that end at graduation.
- Draw a one-page version of your plan. Present it out loud as if it were your IEP meeting.
Questions
- What ages is this for?
- Ninth through twelfth grade. Transition planning is required under IDEA from age sixteen, and student-led meetings are the goal.
- Is it free?
- Yes, all eight tasks are free to use with no account.
- Why drawing rather than writing?
- Because it lowers the barrier and produces something to talk about. A student who will not write a plan will draw one, and the drawing is a better prompt for speaking than a form is.
Use this board with your caseload
With a free account, every correct, cued and incorrect mark is saved to the student and scored against their IEP goal, with the data written up for you. Assign it as home practice through the parent portal.
Track progress freeFree for SLPs. No card, no trial clock.