Serving the LEP Student in the Vocational Preparatory Instruction Program
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LEP students often remain in unskilled or low skilled positions. Improving language skills, technical skills and acquiring new skills continues over a lifetime.
What you can do: provide data on future hot jobs and ask students to predict what skills will be required; use computer technology to provide greater instructional flexibility; provide skills using the internet to locate information electronically; include visual and text materials that demonstrate diversity in a variety of places of employment.
Creating the real world integration
of listening, speaking, reading and writing English.
Students will use and apply the vocabulary and language of the workplace
when it is presented in context.
What you can do: use cooperative learning structures to read about
the importance of time in the American work ethic, discuss, listen to
each other, summarize key points in writing and make a group presentation.
BRIGHT IDEAS: Learn how to
say WELCOME and other simple phrases in 270 languages. Log on to
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/welcome.htm
Having trouble pronouncing Asian
student names? Check out this teacher friendly site on the pronunciation
of Asian first and last names: http://www.csupomona.edu/%7Epronunciation/
This program was developed by the State of Florida Adult Secondary/GED/VPI Committee of the Practitioners' Task Force, through an Adult Education State Leadership Grant from the Florida Department of Education, Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education.
Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this web-based training component, it is not an official publication of the Florida Department of Education.
