ERIC Number: ED424469
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 19
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Reading Workplace Maps (P8). Workforce 2000 Partnership.
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL.; MacArthur State Technical Coll., Opp, AL.
This curriculum package on reading workplace maps is a product of the Workforce 2000 Partnership, which combined the resources of four educational partners and four industrial partners in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina to provide education and training in communication, computation, and critical thinking to employees in the apparel, carpet, and textile industries. After a brief overview of the Workforce 2000 Partnership, the curriculum package's contents are described. Presented next is a curriculum guide for a course in reading workplace maps for new employees. Included in the curriculum guide are the following elements: module title; author; job title; general instructional objective; overall time; and specific instructional objectives, list of required resources and materials, and suggested learning activities and evaluation activities. Next, a lesson plan is provided that contains detailed instructions for conducting the guided practice, applied practice, and closure activities. The activities provided are designed to teach learners to read and interpret work-related maps, schematic diagrams, pictorial drawings, illustrations, and blueprints. Concluding the document are handouts, transparencies, tests and a sample individual education plan. (MN)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Blueprints, Carpeting, Curriculum Guides, Diagrams, Education Work Relationship, Fashion Industry, Illustrations, Learning Activities, Learning Modules, Lesson Plans, Literacy Education, Map Skills, Maps, Networks, Partnerships in Education, Reading Skills, Records (Forms), Regional Planning, School Business Relationship, Skill Development, Workplace Literacy
Enterprise State Junior College, P.O. Box 1300, Enterprise, AL 36331; Web site: http://www.esjc.cc.al.us
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. National Workplace Literacy Program.
Authoring Institution: Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL.; MacArthur State Technical Coll., Opp, AL.
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