Project Future. A Workplace Literacy Project [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5624289
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED427184
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- Description:
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 523 p.
- Summary:
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This document contains 12 units of study for a competency-based workplace literacy program, developed by Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, for a local plastics and engineering company. Each unit covers between two and nine competencies. Of the 12 units, 5 are devoted to language skills and 7 are devoted to mathematics. Each unit contains a lesson plan for each of the competencies taught in the unit. The lesson plans contain the following: lesson objectives, prerequisite skill(s); literacy skills addressed; detailed instructions for presenting the unit; evaluation activity; and extension activities. Also included in each unit are some or all of the following: student handouts; transparency masters; learning activities; and self-evaluation checklists. Many learning activities require learners to read and or complete reading texts, forms, and charts actually used at the company. The language skills unit topics are as follows: communicating; learning and using plastics vocabulary; interpreting work-related forms and charts; reading of workplace materials critically; and writing forms and letters. Mathematics topics include the following: understanding whole numbers; using fractions; using decimals; calculating percentages; measuring items with the common English and metric systems; understanding statistics; and understanding geometric concepts. (MN)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. National Workplace Literacy Program.
- ERIC Note: For a related document, see ED 426 204. A project cooperatively conducted with Futura Plastics and Engineering, Louisville, KY.
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- Teachers.
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Adult Basic Education
- Adult Literacy
- Arithmetic
- Behavioral Objectives
- Business Correspondence
- Check Lists
- Communication Skills
- Competency Based Education
- Computer Literacy
- Critical Reading
- Education Work Relationship
- Fractions
- Geometry
- Internet
- Learning Activities
- Lesson Plans
- Literacy Education
- Manufacturing Industry
- Mathematics Skills
- Measurement Techniques
- Numeracy
- Percentage
- Plastics
- Production Technicians
- Reading Skills
- Records (Forms)
- Statistics
- Workplace Literacy
- Writing (Composition)
- Writing Skills
- Other authors/contributors:
- Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2068 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1998
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