Personal Appearance 
                Layered Curriculum 
                Marth Vincent Region VIII 
                Education Service Center 
                Mt. Pleasant Texas 
                  
                
                Lesson Level Functional Skills Level, Low Incidence Disabilities 
                  Population. 
                F.A.C.E.S Curriculum Guide Social Studies High School Level 
                  Lesson 
                - Page H-4 Teaching Activity 1. a. personal appearance 
                TEKS 115.4 [2.9] Objective: The student comprehends the skills 
                  necessary for building and maintaining healthy relationships. 
                
                Goal: A person's appearance is the first thing 
                  that most people notice and therefore, it is the first opportunity 
                  to make a favorable impression. The student needs to be able 
                  to learn that his or her dress, grooming and overall appearance 
                  are very specific communications of self concept and attitude. 
                  He or she also needs to understand there are certain situations 
                  that call for certain types of appearances and. When these expectations 
                  are not met, there can be consequences. Eg. Weather conditions. 
                  
                  
                
                Objectives: Student will identify areas of 
                  responsibility in personal appearance. 
                Students will identify appropriate and inappropriate dress, 
                  appearance. 
                Student is expected to choose appropriate garments for various 
                  social situations. 
                Student will be able to observe his or her own appearance and 
                  determine if acceptable. 
                Student will be able to observe the appearance of others to 
                  determine if acceptable. 
                Student is expected to choose and identify from pictures which 
                  examples of appearance are socially acceptable. 
                Length of unit 
                Timeline: One month of repeated presentations, Monday through 
                  Friday. 
                Note: Some populations will require more or some less. 
                 'C' Layer  
                Key daily topics use prompts as needed, augmentative communication 
                  devices, one to one training and small group strategy teaching. 
                
                Daily one to one training [or small group training with higher 
                  level]: 
                 Monday through Friday 
                Day 1 Introduction 
                 1. Use student size clothes, include familiar and obvious 
                  eg. Jeans and a prom formal, present clothes and discuss where, 
                  and in what situation each article of clothing would be worn. 
                  [Make sure each physical example includes clothes, hairstyle 
                  and general grooming. 
                 Day 2 
                 2. Using adult size clothes and smaller children clothes show 
                  examples of inappropriate dress. 
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                
                 Day 3 
                 3. Explain [and use clothing & picture examples of] times 
                  and places slouchy dress is acceptable. Explain [and use clothing 
                  & picture examples of] times and places for everyday clothes. 
                  Explain [and use clothing & picture examples of] times and 
                  places for formal attire. 
                 Day 4 
                 4. Discuss in what weather which pieces of clothing would 
                  be necessary for safety, comfort, and acceptable. Name/ label 
                  each article of clothing with a name card, include socks and 
                  foot coverings suitable to weather, and some sort of head covering. 
                
                Day 5 
                 5. Explain [and use clothing & picture examples of] times 
                  and places slouchy dress is acceptable. Explain [and use clothing 
                  & picture examples of] times and places for everyday clothes. 
                  Explain [and use clothing & picture examples of] times and 
                  places for formal attire. 
                  
                
                Assignment Choices: [some students require 
                  physical assistance here] 
                Each day present 2 activities to student for choice. Keep a 
                  checklist record of choice activities for each child and rotate 
                  activities so by Friday each student has done most activities. 
                  
                  
                
                 Watch videotaped illustrations of presentable appearance, 
                  and unacceptable appearance. [These can be commercial or your 
                  taped videos of different people.] 
                  
                
                 Students create clothing 'ensembles' to dress paper dolls 
                  -student chooses articles of clothing to dress appropriately 
                  dressing paper dolls as examples and next communicates with 
                  teacher as to where their dolls might be going when dressed 
                  this way. 
                  
                
                 Language Master: students choose what to wear to one of these 
                  social events; a party, going to church, baseball game, school, 
                  add your own ideas. [ tape the clothing words on cards and attach 
                  pictures to lang. master cards.] 
                  
                
                 Match picture and words cards with set of Barbie dolls dressed 
                  for various occasions. 
                  
                  
                  
                
                 Choose and listen to a tape recorded story of dressing up 
                  for specific occasions, birthdays, church, dances, the movies, 
                  working on the farm, etc. [have 4 or 5 on tape.] 
                  
                
                 Match pictures of clothes to picture illustrations of categories, 
                  slouchy, dress up, everyday. 
                  
                
                 Sort clothes for washing, into whites, and colors piles, or 
                  into tops and bottoms piles, and name them as you sort. 
                  
                  
                  
                
                 Name label each article of clothing in the clothes basket 
                  with a name card, or picture. 
                  
                
                 'B' Layer 
                Note: Use prompting only if needed. 
                  
                
                The way others dress 
                1. Teacher dresses differently each day, depicting different 
                  social and work situations. 
                Students guess/decide what activity the teacher is dressed 
                  for, where she is going, what she will do there. 
                 
                2. Students go throughout the school building and take pictures 
                  of others students and adults. Then back in class print out 
                  or use on computer and critique dress of others and record if 
                  they were appropriately attired for school and work or their 
                  outfit was not appropriate for school or work. [Be sure to get 
                  PE coach and café workers] 
                  
                
                3. Selecting clothes for another person. Students select an 
                  appropriate outfit for someone else, from a clothes basket collection, 
                  of like or similar colors, complementary colors, and colors 
                  they would like that other person to wear, to complete an outfit 
                  suitable to wear out to a social event. [Name/ID, colors and 
                  pieces of clothing] 
                  
                
                4. The chosen partner student Dresses up using clothes outfit 
                  chosen, then asks another persons opinion, Am I dressed appropriately, 
                  what do you think? 
                  
                
                 'A' Layer Choose and modify according to student  
                
                Teacher: Use a digital camera to record student dress everyday 
                  for the previous week. 
                The way I dress. 
                1. Ask the student to look at what he or she is currently wearing.[today] 
                  Are you dressed well today? 
                 Tell/show me two places it would be appropriate to wear this 
                  out fit. [some students will use pictures to communicate answers 
                  here.] 
                Where else could you wear this outfit? 
                  
                
                2. Go to computer and show student their dress from the pictures 
                  you took everyday last week. 
                Ask the student if his or her grooming habits are sending a 
                  message to others-What message is it? Will they approve or disapprove 
                  when they see you? clean is good, dirty is unacceptable, include 
                  according to student dress; cleanliness, hairstyle, body piercing, 
                  tattoos, appropriateness of clothing. Did you look good that 
                  day? 
                Did you dress appropriately that day? Do you think others liked 
                  the way you dressed for school? 
                3. What if? 
                What would happen if you came to school naked?...you tore a 
                  big hole in your pants ? wore your Dad's coat to school?...and 
                  so on. 
                In place of Points Assignments: 
                Teacher observation of Student performance- task initiation, 
                  on task, task completion. 
                First-Then Strategy 
                
                
                
                
                First we complete the work, then you receive your choice.[ 
                  choices here are from their individual motivation assessment 
                  list, separate from unit.] 
                Rubrics 
                Student specific all may be need to be individualized 
                Examples: 
                1. Picture check list, student checks off when task activity 
                  is completed. 
                2. File folder, cut in half, Name of student on front, with 
                  Velcro squares [on inside], each side to match # of activities 
                  choices. Folder has the pictures of assignment choices velcroed 
                  in on left side [which is beginning or start]. When the choice 
                  task is completed the student moves the picture from start-left 
                  side- to finished - which is the right side of the folder. 
                  
                  
                  
                
                C Layer Rubric 
                
                
                
                
                And so on 
                A picture Rubric is recommended so all can use. 
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                
                Establish a grade scale: 
                Introduce, [teaching], 
                 In progress [learning] , 
                 Mastery [performance criteria met], 
                 Maintain. [skill maintenance] 
                  
                  
                  
                
                Grade Scale Student Checklist 
                Student: 
                Teacher/Trainer: 
                Date from___________to__________. 
                  
                
                   
                   
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