Date posted: April 6, 2018
At the start of the quarter students enrolled in Disability Awareness learn to identify and research their disability. This gives them the confidence and expertise to be able to educate those around them about what their life is like. This also empowers the students to advocate for their own needs. This course engages the students ...more about Student Stories: Disability Awareness
Date posted: March 28, 2018
Students enrolled in Introduction to Acting this quarter recently performed monologues for an audience of classmates. The speeches ranged from comic to serious, and the plays they were taken from ranged from original scripts to well-known classics such as The Odd Couple, Death of a Salesman, and Our Town. Over the preceding few weeks, the novice actors ...more about Student Stories: Budding Actors Take the Stage
Date posted: March 22, 2018
This quarter in Individual Studies, 3rd year students re-examined their career path with a project designed to help them further explore their chosen careers and what it will take to accomplish their goals. Here is an example of where one student wants to do when they graduate from OLS: "I chose Preschool Teacher because they help young kids ...more about Student Stories: Career Pathway Exploration
Date posted: March 21, 2018
Students in the Environment & Our Community course have been learning about emergency preparedness. As active leaders in their communities students have been getting ready to answer questions and give advice about things you can do to keep yourself and the people you care about safe in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency. ...more about Student Stories: Emergency Preparedness
Date posted: March 9, 2018
Third year students are taking Individual Study this quarter to help them further develop their career pathway. Each student is designing an individualized project that includes at least two job shadows in the community. A job shadow provides an experience for a student of what it is like to perform a certain type of work ...more about Student Stories: Job Shadows
Date posted: March 7, 2018
In the OLS “News and Daily Living” course, second-year students were frequently asked to find news stories of interest to them and bring them in to present and discuss in class. On one of these occasions, they found themselves being taken through the process behind an evening newscast: First, they wrote their headline on a ...more about Student Stories: OLS Students Create Their Own Newscast
Date posted: March 1, 2018
OLS students and staff had a great time on Feb 3 at the College Bound Resource Fair. OLS presents this annual event for people with disabilities who aspire to go to college in partnership with Autism Spectrum Navigators at Bellevue College, ACHIEVE Highline College, SAILS Seattle Central College, and Mosaic at University of Washington. OLS student volunteers were on-site to ...more about College Bound Resource Fair 2018
Date posted: February 27, 2018
On January 31 first year students went on their Learning Strategies Community Activity on Bellevue College Main Campus. They worked in small groups to gather information and images of resources on campus that OLS students might use. That work is being compiled into a resource guide they can share with each other and the OLS ...more about Student Stories: Learning Strategies Course
Date posted: February 12, 2018
In Critical Thinking through Writing second year students begin class with a writing prompt that involves thinking critically about a complex topic and writing out their first impressions. This helps students practice thinking critically, organizing and synthesizing information, and communicating their ideas clearly to others. Here Turner Brimm muses on what his life would be like if ...more about Student Stories: Critical Thinking Through Writing
Date posted: February 9, 2018
In the Controversial Issues in the Workplace course this fall, students were asked to summarize laws related to employees in the workplace and discuss occupational safety. Students were able to select an employment idea and identify OSHA publications that would apply to their specific work environments/tasks. This assessment required students to reflect on the very first ...more about Student Stories: OSHA Project
