She spent the weeks at the Wells Fargo customer service center where she watched, learned and helped put together training materials for new hires. It was the kind of place some of her students could be working some day. So when I came here last year, I didn't think we needed to spend a lot of time on it. But I think the reality is I will spend more time on it because I realized now that this is a critical skill. What teachers think of as basic skills can sometimes differ from what employers believe they are, she said.
Teachers tend to think of the basic skills as the three R's.
In most cases, the LEED organization paid the salaries with ei-ther federal or state grant dollars. Isaac Ghansah, a computer science professor at California State University, Sacramento, chose the high-tech field and was able to spend 10 weeks at Intel Corp. in Folsom. I learned some new things. My students are going to benefit a lot from what I gained there. As a teacher, when you go through the whole thing and you see it for yourself, then you know what you can tell the students.