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What
does the S.A.I.L. Lab Offer To Students?
• Free service to students enrolled at Miami-Dade College
• Open entry/open exit to the program
• Self-paced individualized instruction modules
• Flexible schedules
• Computer-based language, reading, and math instruction
• Performance-based evaluation
• Individual tutoring
• Evaluation of baseline academic proficiency
Who are potential beneficiaries
of S.A.I.L. Lab services?
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Registered A.S. or Vocational Certificate candidates who wish to upgrade
or refresh their mastery of reading, language, and math in order to pass
remedial courses which they have failed, perhaps more than once.
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Community members who want to raise their competency levels.
• All
students who want to prepare to take the CPT (Computerized Placement Test)
and T.A.B.E. (Test of Adult Basic Education).
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Pre-GED students.
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Students who are enrolled in Gordon Rule and non-Gordon Rule courses are
eligible.
What does the S.A.I.L. Lab Offer To Teachers?
• Identification of student's educational strengths and
deficiencies in language, reading and math
• Diagnostic test before remediation.
• Follow-up system to determine post-remediation performance.
• CPT Practice test after remediation.
• Teachers may request attendance and progress reports
Why
Should Teachers Encourage Students to Attend the S.A.I.L. Lab?
• Students enrolled in non-Gordon Rule classes and struggling
with the subject matter can be referred to the S.A.I.L. Lab for basic
skills remediation in language, reading and math
• Concurrent enrollment college credit classes and VPI
classes will increase student learning, motivation and interest
Courses Offered
Responding to individual student learning styles is basic
to the VPI philosophy. This philosophy recognizes that traditional
lecture-read-test procedures are not satisfactory for all students.
Computers offer ways to reach students who have lost interest in
traditional instructional methods by providing individualized instruction
and instant feedback
• VPI 0111 READING (NO FEES)
VPI 0111 is a vocational preparatory Reading course which
covers from basic Reading skills to advanced comprehension and vocabulary
skills
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VPI 0311 LANGUAGE (NO FEES)
VPI 0311 is a vocational preparatory Language course which
covers from basic Language skills to advanced sentence and paragraph
development skills
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VPI 0211 MATH (NO FEES)
VPI 0211 is a vocational preparatory Math course which
covers from Basic and Intermediate Math to Beginning, Intermediate, and
Advanced Algebra
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