ESOL Orientation

Assumptions / Responsibilities / Rights

The programs of Odessa College Adult Education are based on students becoming responsible for achieving their personal, educational and career goals. We believe that given the correct educational environment, sufficient time and necessary desire, everyone can learn.

Odessa College is dedicated to providing you with quality educational opportunities and an excellent instructional staff to effectively assist you in meeting your goals. However, how far and how fast you progress ultimately depends on the extent of your participation.

Assumptions

1. The staff of Odessa College Adult Education is committed to you and serious about instruction.
2. Students are committed and serious about learning.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the adult education staff are:

1. to provide the best physical space possible for learning
2. to provide you with the best instructional materials possible
3. to provide you with the best instructional staff possible
4. to provide you with the best curricula possible
5. to provide convenient and flexible scheduling of ESOL classes
6. to assist you in seeing progress, in analyzing learning difficulties and finding solutions
7. to be friendly and supportive of your learning
8. to challenge your learning with stimulating instruction and your commitment with necessary standards and reasoned choices
9. to ask you what you want to learn and respect that response
10. to meet your learning needs and interests

The responsibilities of the adult learner are:

1. to analyze your need for learning a new language and your readiness to commit to the requirements
2. to commit to a 12-week semester at 75% monthly attendance
3. to come to class based on your need to learn, not simply on your affection (or lack of) for your instructor
4. to complete the entire week of orientation and participate in the activities
5. to set realizable goals and actively work toward their completion
6. to make your best effort to learn
7. to ask for assistance when needed
8. to achieve continued progress toward your personal, educational and career goals (or)
9. to actively participate in analyzing barriers
10. to behave in an appropriate manner that insures participation in the ESOL program
11. to be courteous and respectful to students, teachers and staff
12. to abide by the policies, rules and procedures of Odessa College

Rights

Students

All students have the right:

1. to decide whether they will participate in the ESOL program or not
2. to learn or not learn English
3. to make their own choices
4. to behave in ways they choose
5. to follow the program policies, rules and procedures or not
6. to be treated respectfully

Instructors

All instructors have the right:

1. to teach free of distraction or disruption
2. to determine whether your choices and behaviors are compatible with learning
3. to determine whether your choices and behaviors are in agreement with program policies, rules and procedures
4. to be treated respectfully
5. to ask that you leave the program if any of the above are not met

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