My name is Marutte Goodwin Hecht, and I have been teaching the evening VESL class since Spring 1997. I enjoy teaching this class because it is the first step to a new career for many students. This class runs a little different from the morning class because we meet in the lab for 3 nights, and our fourth night is in a classroom. They create tables and graphs. They have to write writing projects and do presentations.
Students learn many job related skills such as team work and organizing time.
It's an intense and demanding English class, but it's a lot of fun because students can apply things they learn in class in their workplace the next day. Teaching these job and life skills is highly rewarding for me as an instructor. It's a pleasure to have very motivated, hard-working students who feel they can improve their jobs and lives by taking our VESL classes. I'm Marty Furch, the Coordinator of the VESL Program at Palomar College. I feel very fortunate to be a part of the VESL team.