Self Advocacy

Self- advocacy is speaking for yourself, making your own decisions, and reaching out for help when you need it.

• True

• False

Scientific research shows a connection between self-advocacy and ______

• academic failure

• academic and post secondary success

• high anxiety

• poor attendance

Which of the following is an example of self advocacy?

• Completing all your work on your own.

• Going to class.

• Setting an alarm to remind you to go to class.

• Reaching out to teachers/school counselor with questions.

Staff contact information can be found...

• in schoology

• in acellus

• on the student homepage (sis.padistance.org)

• in your email

You are confused about how to complete the daily assignment. Which of the following self-advocacy skill would help best in this situation?

• g-chat your teacher asking to meet to work on it together

• Call your counselor and ask them to put you in a new class.

• Call a friend and ask them if they know.

• Stop for now and come back to it later.

High school teachers have open office hours each day at...

• 1-2:30 pm

• 3-3:30 pm

• 7-7:30 am

• 8-8:30 am

To g-chat your teachers, go to gmail, click on the plus button under hangouts and then...

• wait for them to come up

• type their phone number

• type their name or email

• it is impossible to initiate a gchat

Attending office hours is a self-advocacy strategy

• True

• False

Self-advocacy is an important factor in workplace safety for high-school workers

• True

• False

Self-advocacy is an important skill in high school, but will not be used after graduation.

• True

• False