Independent Living Skills Project

Overview

Independent Living Skills Project Overview

Student: CPe
Staff: AT

Domain DAILY LIVING

Skills:(Tips Model in italics - Specific skills to demonstrate this underneath)

Daily Living
❏ Money management and Consumer Skills
❏ Maintenance & security of personal & financial documents
❏ Time awareness and keeping appointments
❏ Entertainment on one’s own and with others

Career and Education

❏ Exposure and experience to/in different work environments
❏ Learning career specific skills

Description This project will be focused on CPe gaining experience holding a paying job and learning more
about the ins and outs of television production, her chosen career path.

Goal/Product
CPe will attend a paid internship at Vermont Public Television with at least 80% full attendance. At least
50% of the internship, she will attend without support from staff. By the end of the internship, she will also
move toward increasing her shift hours by at least 50%.*

In addition, CPe will gain experience in:

- Editing software and television programming production
- Filling out and keeping track of a timesheet and paychecks
- Creating a resume & cover letter

*If these goals are not met, CPe will complete an additional analysis and reflection about her strengths, areas
for growth, and plans for the future.
BREAKDOWN OF PROJECT
Larger Elements Breakdown of Tasks Notes

Informational Meeting ❏ Meet with Mickey COMPLETE as of 3/28

❏ Meet with VPT

Attend Paid Internship ❏ 80% Full Attendance 4/ 05: 2-3pm

4/09: 11-12pm
❏ 50% attended without 4/12: Absent
support staff
❏ Show increase shift hours
by 50%
❏ Complete weekly
timesheet and coordinate
with site supervisor (mb)

Reflect On Experience ❏ Complete weekly

reflections
❏ Complete a final reflection
that gives a sample of what
you learned
❏ Complete a resume
❏ Complete a cover letter
❏ Add to your website!

Total Scheduled days: 16

80% attendance: .8 x 16 = ____________

50% attendance solo .5 x 16 = ____________

50% increase in shift hours:

If the starting hours are 2 hours/ week, what is 50% of those hours? What would you need to work up to?

50% increase = ___________________________

Weekly Reflection:
Date Hours What tasks did you do? OR Low-light Highlight
Reason for absence

3/28/19

4/05 2-3 PM Tour of sets and booths We had already had Learning more about
(1 hr) a couple of tours the cameras
and I didn’t have
many questions

4/09 11 AM- 12 Watched Premiere editing Not really anything Getting to lean more
PM tutorials about the editing
(1 hr) process and the
software they use

4/12 I wasn’t feeling up to going

4/16 Absent from school

4/19 2:15-4:30 Observed live filming of Vermont I was very tired, as I All of it
PM This Week from director’s booth had done a lot that
(2 hr 15 day
min)

4/30 Absent from school

5/03 3-4 PM Observed live filming of Vermont I wasn’t feeling great It was a fairly good
(1 hr) This Week from the set and audio so that wasn’t very time and I got to see
booth fun how the audio booth at
VPT works
 Date Hours What tasks did you do? Low-light Highlight

5/07 Absent from school

5/10 Absent: half-day from school

5/14 Not feeling up to going

5/17 Absent from school

5/21

5/24

5/28

5/31

Final Reflection

Describe the ways in which you met your goals for this project: (Using the Goal/Product of this project)
I am proud of myself for attending as many scheduled times asI felt I could, unfortunately many of the
scheduled times fell on days where I was sick, had a lot of other work to finish for school, and I felt overall
 crummy.

How much money did you make in total? $43.12

What new skills did you learn about this career?

I learned that working in te audio and director’s booths takes an incredible amount of skill and multitasking
ability.

Something you were proud of accomplishing:

I’m proud that on 4/19/19, I stayed for two hours, when my intent was to only stay for one.

Something you pushed yourself to do:

I was having a hard time getting out of the car at VPT on 4/19, and I’m glad I went in.

What position could you picture yourself in if you were to work at a place like VPT & why?
I think I could be a good editor, though I’m not sure if I would like it because of how much time I’d be
spending alone in a room just editing. I would very much enjoy being a director there.