Bilingual Office Committee

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Bilingual Office Committee

• Asilomar Conference
• March 14-16, 2007

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SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGEBUS 35 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
ASSISTANT BILINGUAL (ENGLISH/SPANISH)MARISA
SOLER, INSTRUCTOR

• Certificate of Achievement Program
• Twelve (12) units
• Four (4) days per week Monday-Thursday
• Four (4) hours a day 1-450 p.m.
• One instructor
• Work Experience 1 unit
• Total required units 13
• No prerequisites required

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SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGEBUS 35 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
ASSISTANT BILINGUAL (ENGLISH/SPANISH)MARISA
SOLER, INSTRUCTOR

• DESCRIPTION
• Prepares students to work in a bilingual
  (Spanish/English) office setting in an entry
  level position.
• Emphasis on developing skills in business
  English, keyboarding, word processing (Microsoft
  Office Suite), filing and office procedures.
• Students will complete work experience
  internships while enrolled in this course by also
  enrolling in Bus 290-Cooperative Work Experience.

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Course timelines

• Keyboarding Bus 70-9 wk course 20-25 WAM
  desired speed (increase 5-10 WAM)
• Keyboarding Pro Cortez Peters
• 5 TW _at_ semesters end (certificate)
• Computer skills MS Word basics, Excel
  PowerPoint Access
• Office Procedures written communications
  formatting, proofreaders marks, telephone
  techniques cultural awareness
• Presentations end of semester report in English
  (orally)

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SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGEBUS 35 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
ASSISTANT BILINGUAL (ENGLISH/SPANISH)MARISA
SOLER, INSTRUCTOR

• BUS 35 Administrative Office Assistant-Bilingual
  12 units
• BUS 290 Work Experience 1
• 13 units
• NOTE This program has been very successful and
  popular for more than 15 years at our school.
  We always offered it in the Spring Semester.

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OPT-ESL Mini-Grant ReportSpring 2006

• Pat Bennett, ESL Professor and Mary Leslie, BOT
  Professor

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CREATE A MODEL

• To enhance the success of ESL students
• Career Technical and professional programs
• Office Professional Training (OPT) program
  (Business Office Technology department)
• www.grossmont/edu/bot

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• Add a writing sample
• Provide tutoring for ESL students in the OPT
  program
• Enroll ESL/OPT students in English 51/52
• Develop Career Technical ESL class(es) for
  students interested in career technical programs.

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WORK IN PROGRESS TOWARD MEETING RECOMMENDATIONS

• ESL is developing new course outline - VESL class
  to begin in fall 2007
• Introduction to Computers-ESL Students
• Computer basics
• Keyboarding basics
• Internet usage and e-mail
• Explore e-platforms Blackboard WebCT

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Research

• Identify which career technical courses ESL
  students enrolled.
• Find the success rates of ESL students in these
  courses by level of ESL assessment
• Purpose identify which vocation-specific
  language should be included in our new VESL track
  courses

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Curriculum

• ESL students need a basic foundation in English
• Proposed courses are under development
• Career Technical ESL 103
• Career Planning for ESL Students
• Computer Skills for ESL Students
• Upon successful completion, enroll in BOT Flex
  Lab courses
• BOT 100 Basic Keyboarding
• BOT 096 Computer Basics
• BOT 097 Windows Basics

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Tutoring

• Hire ESL tutors for ESL students enrolled in
  career technical programs but not in ESL.
• Find ESL tutors who are enrolled in Linguistics
  graduate programs

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FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

• Refine the VESL courses taught
• Refer students to relevant, accessible programs
  OPT, and others on-campus.
• Seek funding to research the language levels
  needed for success in regional training programs
  and jobs