Integrating Essential Skills into Training - National Adult Literacy ...
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Added activities (use your problem solving skills):<br />
• Now change your table so # of Stitch Functions is the first column. Should you<br />
change the order of the items in this column? Why? When would it be useful to<br />
have a table like this?<br />
• Now change your table so # of Built In Stitches is the first column. Make all<br />
changes necessary. (HINT: think about what to do if several machines have the<br />
same number of built in stitches)<br />
• Make a checklist table from the sewing machine information given in the writeups.<br />
Application Exercise:<br />
• Develop a data table for big screen televisions or vehicles, using the<br />
advertisements required.<br />
• Construct three scenario-type questions based on your data table that you could<br />
ask learners – these questions must use an integrated essential skills approach<br />
and develop learners’ critical thinking and problem solving skills.<br />
Another look at data tables:<br />
• Look at the stock market listings and decide what the purpose of this table is.<br />
What information is it conveying?<br />
• Note the column headings.<br />
• Review the vocabulary and abbreviations (a necessary step in deciphering a<br />
table).<br />
• Familiarize yourself with the layout and formatting.<br />
• Answer the following questions:<br />
♦ Could any other column or columns be the lead column? If yes, what would<br />
be the purpose of listing the information that way?<br />
♦ If the lead column is changed, do changes to ordering have to be made? Why or why<br />
not?<br />
♦ What kinds of integrated essentials skills lesson could you deliver using this<br />
table?<br />
• Repeat the exercise above using the mortgage rate table.