Basic Communication and Adult Education

 In our Basic Communication course, students must demonstrate capabilities that are, for the most part, used on a daily basis in society. Students are introduced to or reacquainted with how to make calls; how to set an alarm; composing notes or writing signatures when required; different currency identifiers and how to correctly identify them in the proper setting; the difference between a debit and credit card and how to use each; how to access and/or set up a bank account; and many more life skills. 

A written summary of an article is asked of the student in order to gauge their reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, punctuation and word usage skills. If a written summary is not possible, an oral summary will suffice. Basic Communication intends to prepare WSB students for daily life interactions in public as well as provide them with the skills and abilities they need to gain sustainable independence. Only students who have demonstrated a deficiency in academic areas are scheduled into Adult Education to help strengthen their skills in math, spelling, vocabulary, writing or reading comprehension, and to get their GED. 

Students are expected to pass a basic math test. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, decimals and percentiles will be covered.