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Baran, Nancy H., Ed. – 1987
This illustrated guide was designed to familiarize consumers with planning a vacation trip, whether domestic or abroad. The guide covers setting up a budget; package tours; cruises and charter flights; travel agencies and clubs; and arranging stays in hotels/motels, rental condominiums, bed-and-breakfasts, hostels, campsites, and private…
Descriptors: Adults, Budgeting, Camping, Consumer Education
Coleman, Trudy; And Others – 1985
This instructional packet is one of a series of five modules that emphasize a systematic decision-making model for common problematic situations. The steps of the model are identifying the problem, gathering information, developing and assessing alternatives, implementing a solution, and evaluating and modifying the solution. Aimed at adult basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Resources, Consumer Economics, Decision Making Skills
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1987
This learning module is one of a series that teaches the competencies of "Job Search Skills," part of the "Work Skills" package--a set of competency-based instructional materials written for low-level readers that prepares students with specific job search and job keeping skills. ("Work Skills" is part of the "Connections" package, which…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Education Work Relationship
Rabey, Gordon P. – 1979
This guide, which is intended for new supervisors and managers to use in an independent study setting, deals with the key points of effective management. The following topics are discussed in the individual sections: understanding what a manager is and why managers are appointed; setting objectives and achieving results; planning and controlling…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Budgeting, Communication Skills, Decision Making
Gunderson, Margaret; And Others – 1993
This unit is one of three self-contained modules for self-assessment, career exploration, and life skills designed for use with special populations (persons with disabilities, educationally and economically disadvantaged persons, persons with limited English proficiency, students in programs designed to eliminate sex bias, and prisoners) in…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making, Employment Potential
Gordus, Jeanne Prial – 1984
This document contains both a trainers' guide and a participants' book for a one-day workshop on coping with unemployment. The workshop is planned to enable participants to withstand a period of joblessness with a minimum of personal stress. It includes information about specific unemployment-related problems, methods of stress management,…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Classroom Techniques, Coping, Dislocated Workers
Lane Community Coll., Eugene, OR. – 1982
This packet of 12 learning modules on human relations is one of 20 such packets developed for apprenticeship training for stationary engineers. Introductory materials are a complete listing of all available modules and a supplementary reference list. Each module contains some or all of these components: goal, performance indicators, study guide (a…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Decision Making
Lane Community Coll., Eugene, OR. – 1982
This packet of 12 learning modules on human relations is 1 of 8 such packets developed for apprenticeship training for low voltage alarm. Introductory materials are a complete listing of all available modules and a supplementary reference list. Each module contains some or all of these components: goal, performance indicators, study guide (a check…
Descriptors: Alarm Systems, Apprenticeships, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills
Newman, Christy M.; And Others – 1994
Materials for adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction are presented. They are designed to enable adult ESL learners with limited oral and/or written competence in English to handle most everyday survival, social, family, and job-related situations independently, using oral and written English. Stage 3 materials, presented here, are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Continuing Education, Daily Living Skills

Anderson, Marcia; And Others – 1990
This set of publications, consisting of a student workbook and teacher's manual, is designed for use by adult learners registered in the intermediate level of the career planning course of the Ontario (Canada) Basic Skills program. The student workbook contains units on the following topics: introduction to career planning, self-assessment for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Career Planning
Carman, Priscilla; Van Horn, Barbara; Hamilton, KayLynn; Williams, Mary Kay – 2002
This guide contains activities and resources to help adult learners develop the work-based foundation skills and knowledge areas included on the Foundation Skills Framework wheel (Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy 2000). Its four sections (basic employability skills, basic workplace knowledge, basic workplace skills, and lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy