Monday: Microsoft Word

I cannot say enough how proud I am of the fact that each person in the class's computer skills has improved by leaps and bounds.

For the last month now the class has slowly been working their way through a workbook created by the Saint Paul Community Literacy Consortorium (S.P.C.L.C.). This workbook is a complete curriculum of Microsoft Office's Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Currently the class is working on mastering Microsoft Word. Today's lesson was about creating tables. The exercise we used covered how to create a very brief weekly schedule using a table. I will expand this lesson on Wednesday and ask them to create a list of their choice using a table.

I could see while I was teaching that the class has become much more comfortable using Microsoft Word. Trainees still continue to ask questions about how to do something but my help has changed from showing how to do something to correcting how to do something. This change in aid shows that the trainees have a notion of how to do something in their minds, they are willing to attempt what is asked of them, and they see that if they make a mistake, the error can be fixed with the proper help.

As said, I am very proud of everyone in the class and I'm very excited to see how this skill we are trying to master will impact everyone's ability to apply for and potentially be hired for a job.