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The
Skills Center supports reading, foreign
language, and ESL courses.
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Provides
self-paced learning materials for all students.
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Helps
students improve learning strategies, critical
thinking, keyboarding, etc., and
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Administers
make-up exams for all Fullerton College
courses.
More specifically,
the Skills Center provides these services to
our users.
A. ORIENTATIONS
Before students
come to the Skills Center to perform their lab
requirements, they should be oriented to the
requirements of the lab by their instructors
and have received their material check out cards.
Staff will conduct
20-minute orientations or 5-minute orientations
in the Center, and our PowerPoint orientation
is available on our website: http://skillscenter.fullcoll.edu/orientation.html
B.
MAKE-UP EXAMS
As a convenience
to students, instructors of on campus, telecourse,
or online courses, may arrange to have the Skills
Center staff administer their make-up exams.
Instructors can print out the Makeup exam procedure
form to submit a makeup exam at the Skills Center.
C.
SELF-REFERRALS
Any Fullerton
College student is welcome to use Skills Center
materials for his or her personal skill development.
Just check at the counter to obtain a “Materials
Check Out Card.” Staff will gladly assist
with equipment and material choices.
D.
CD and TAPE DUPLICATION
The Skills Center
staff will duplicate CDs or cassette tapes of
materials for which it has permission from the
publisher on file. Students and instructors
need to provide new blank CDs or blank tapes
of good quality.
E. TEXTBOOK
READABILITY
On request, the
Skills Center staff will analyze the readability
levels of their current textbooks or textbooks
under consideration for adoption.
F.
LEARNING STYLES INVENTORY
This program allows
users to evaluate their preferred learning methods
such as visual, tactile and auditory learning
and prescribes ideal learning modalities. Instructors
who wish to compare their preferred teaching
styles with their student’s or class’s
preferred learning styles can do so using comparison
graphs provided by the program.
G.
STUDY BEHAVIOR INVENTORY
This program helps
users assess how efficiently they use their
study time and makes suggestions how they can
study smarter, not harder.
H.
INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS
Skills Center
staff will work with any instructor to design
special assignments, skill-development contracts,
or other academic skill development activities
for students. We will track and report student
time on task to the instructor, too.
I.
FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS
Skills Center
materials are available to community members
who obtain an ID number from the School of Continuing
Education and enroll in a no-cost course “Improving
Individual Skills.”
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