Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

1. Acquire basic skills and word processing abilities

2. Students will learn to read efficiently for comprehension and correct pronunciation of words while reading text.

3. Retrieve High School Credits as agreed upon among the student, parent, the referring school, and the Skill Center.

4. Transfer earned high school credit back to the home school and continue high school education toward graduation.         

Engage in the development of standards-based lessons, assessments, and active learning strategies

-Concept mapping, classifying activities, experimenting with water.

-Understand systems measurement of matter – inertia, volume, density, and laboratory investigation.

-Understanding physical and chemical changes – Boyle’s law, Charles’s law, plasma.

-Understanding the classification of elements and the periodic table.

-Write clear, concise sentences, paragraphs, and narratives.

-Understand the rise of industrial economics.

-Able to trace the development of American literature from the colonial period forward.

-Create a business memo using correct format and Standard English.

-Investigate science-based societal issues through reading literature, research and written response.

-Write in response to literature, employing the rhetorical techniques observed in reading

-Become a tutor peer

Use of Center of Occupation and Research Development (CORD) curriculum in applied communication

Use of other Internet and library sources

Mechanics in writing

Grammar

Spelling

Phonics

Science

Socio-economics

Government/History

Humanities