PAES® Provides

• Work and Life Skill Training
• Vocational Work Assessment
• Work Exploration
• Appropriate Work Behavior Development
• Data Collection and Student Reporting
• An Accurate Description of Student Performance and Employment Potential

PAES® is Training in:

• Basic Generalizable Vocational and Life Skills that relate to most careers.
• Skills needed for vocational training, placement and independent living.

PAES® is Performance Based Assessments of:

• Students Basic Generalizable Work and Life Skills
• Students Work Interest and Preferences
• Students Work Competitiveness
• Students Work Behaviors
• PAES® Assessments work with most Levels of Special Education Disabilities, including Non-Readers.  PAES® Assessments can also be used for Middle School General Education students.

PAES® is Work Exploration:

• PAES® provides exploration through HANDS-ON experience providing real and meaningful career information and knowledge of what they can do.

PAES® is Work Behavior Development:

• PAES® assesses and trains proper work behaviors, eliminating many barriers to successful job placement.

 How Does PAES® Operate?

• PAES® is a hands on Comprehensive Work Development Curriculum that sets up in a typical sized school classroom.
• PAES® operates in a simulated work environment. Students become employees; teachers become supervisors. Strict procedures are followed so students get the feel of real work, at the same time learn and explore new career vocational areas.
• Each area has a comprehensive array of tasks for the students to perform. The instructor monitors the tasks and provides feedback and assistance where needed.
• Students are encouraged to become as independent as possible and are awarded for their progress.
• Students completing PAES® have a thorough knowledge of many job skills and have a better understanding of the real working world.
• A comprehensive report is developed once a student has finished PAES®. This report can easily be used to develop Career Development Plans, School-To-Work Plans, IEPs and Transition Plans.
• PAES® provides the foundation basics for School-To-Work Transition Plans
• PAES® provides students with Real Knowledge that is relevant to their lives. Students are encouraged to become independent problem solvers and develop higher order thinking skills.

Student Outcomes

Students who have successfully completed PAES®:

• Know what they are good at doing
• Know where their strengths are
• Know work-related problem solving skills
• Know proper work behavior needed on the job
• Know where they are going
• Know what careers interest them

Educational Outcomes

When Students finish with PAES® teachers know:

• What skills a student can actually perform
• If students are competitive with the real world
• What type of special assistance will be needed for slow learners, and the physically challenged
• What work behaviors students have and which ones they need to develop
• How to write better transition plans, because vital information is now available