Emphasis is placed on developing skills in learning to learn, communication, thinking, personal management, group effectiveness and leadership. Class participants will build reading skills as a preparation for GED testing, more advanced reading classes or work related goals. Emphasis is placed on reading material with an awareness of word meanings and paragraph structure, summarizing main ideas, distinguishing between fact and opinion, and demonstrating comprehension of various types of written materials. Prerequisites include appropriate TABE testing for placement. Class participants will build writing skills as a preparation for GED testing, more advanced writing classes or work related goals.
Emphasis is placed on creating a variety of sentence types and constructing simple paragraphs.
Prerequisites include appropriate TABE testing for placement. Class participants will build basic math skills as a preparation for GED testing, more advanced math classes or work related goals. Emphasis is placed on the use of decimals, fractions and the ability to estimate answers to computation and word problems. Prerequisites include appropriate TABE testing for placement. Emphasis is placed on resume development, job applications and the interview process.