The attached is a syllabus for an English for Employment course for intermediate students and above. The course entails career exploration by examining interests and skills and related career fields and academic requirements. The as American education system as well as the Yuba College general education requirements leading to an associates degree, certificate and/or transfer are also covered. See syllabus: << 259SyllabiS2018 – SAMPLE SYLLABUS >> As the syllabus shows, we also explore reading job […]
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Your Dream Job
Before students can decide on a career of study, it is important to take them through some initial steps to explore their interests and preferred working environments as well as what types of skills they already have and what fields these may be useful. The attached handout is the written segment of this lesson leading to a writing assignment expressing all these preferences in a well-developed paragraph. Being able to state what we want is […]
Introduction to PowerPoint (MS2013 – but works with 2016)
This lesson is an introduction to PowerPoint 2013 for purposes of having students prepare a PowerPoint presentation about themselves (see last two pages of this lesson). The lesson is set up to teach students most of the functions they will need by creating two practice slides about a Vacation to Tahoe. There are both written directions and screen/slide shots of the steps to assist students who experience difficulty reading the instructions to be able to […]