ME! Lessons for Teaching Self-Awareness & Self-Advocacy
ME! Lessons for Teaching Self-Awareness & Self-Advocacy
DEVELOPED BY PENNY CANTLEY, KAREN LITTLE, & JAMES MARTIN
Self-determination skills, such as self-advocacy and self-awareness, have the potential to increase successful secondary and postsecondary outcomes for students with disabilities.
Welcome to the ME! Lessons. All of the lessons and supplemental information needed to teach the lessons can be found on this page. Prior to teaching the lessons, please download and read
The unit overviews, Common Core State Standards, and lesson plans are arranged by unit in one file each and may be downloaded by clicking on the link. Student and teacher materials, and additional resources may be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate links.
In addition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) listed within each Unit, the Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) (pdf) standards aligned with ME! Units 1 through 10 are also available.
Educators using the ME! Lessons may modify all lesson materials as needed to better meet individual student and teacher needs. The Word documents and PowerPoint presentations can easily be modified by users, or the entire lesson package is available to download in PDF format.
Educators may download, use, copy, and modify the ME! Lessons at no cost. The ME! Lessons may not be reproduced for sale.
Please send your modified versions and suggestions to zarrowcenter@ou.edu so that they may be considered for posting for others to use.
ME! Lesson Plans and Materials
All links are Word documents, unless noted otherwise.
Unit Overview, Lesson Plans, & Common Core Standards
Student Materials
- ME! Scale
- ME! Scale Spanish
- YOU! Scale
- YOU-Scale Spanish
- Worksheet 1-1: Understanding self-awareness & self-advocacy
- Worksheet 1-2: My Improvement Plan
- ME! Book Instructions and TOC
- Group Activity
- Unit 1 Knowledge Quiz
Teacher Materials
- Worksheet 1-1: Understanding SA and SA TE
- Worksheet 1-2: My Improvement Plan TE
- Unit 1 Knowledge Quiz TE
Additional Resources
More information about ME!
We would like to acknowledge the Oklahoma Developmental Disabilities Council (ODDC) for their generosity during the development of the ME! Lessons. The ODDC provided funding to Dr. James Martin at the University of Oklahoma's Zarrow Center for the purpose of developing the ME! Lessons for Teaching Self-Awareness and Self-Advocacy.
When referencing the ME! Lessons, we recommend using the following citation:
Cantley, P., Little, K., & Martin, J. E. (2010). ME! Lessons for Teaching Self-Awareness and Self-Advocacy. Retrieved from http://www.ou.edu/content/education/centers-and-partnerships/zarrow/trasition-education-materials/me-lessons-for-teaching-self-awareness-and-self-advocacy.html
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