Truck Driving Supplemental Learning Materials
Collection of contextualized supplemental learning materials to help students strengthen relevant math skills and to study vocabulary and other key course concepts.
- Date:
- 2015
- Primary Material Type:
- Quiz/Test
- Other Material Types:
- Assignment, Drill and Practice
- Institution:
- Amarillo College
- Funding Source:
- TAACCCT Round 2
- Subjects:
- contextualized learning, vocabulary, relevant math skills, truck driving
Industry / Occupation
- Industry Partner:
- Name of Employer or Industry Partner: Amarillo College Truck Driving Academy Advisory Board: provided input into curriculum redesign, emphasizing both technical and soft skills needed by new employees
- Industry Sector:
- Wholesale Trade -- Truck Transportation -- General Freight Trucking (4841)
- Occupation:
- Transportation and Material Moving Occupations -- Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer (53-3032)
Education / Instructional Information
- Instructional Program:
- Transportation and Materials Moving (49)
- Educational Level of Materials:
-
- 1st year Community College or equivalent
- Time Required:
- Time required to complete each section will vary.
- Language:
- English (United States)
- Interactivity Type:
- Active - requires user to respond to prompts, questions, etc.
- Quality Note:
- Part-time Supplemental Instructors observed classes, met with faculty, and reviewed course requirements to determine areas of concern for students. This allowed them to understand what supplemental activities needed to be developed to overcome problem areas and build bridges of support.
- Quality of Subject Matter was assured by:
-
- Consultations during development of instructional materials
- Participation as an ongoing member of team developing the instructional materials
- Quality of Online/Hybrid Course Design assured by:
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- Expertise of Project's Instructional Designers
- Course Note:
- Professional Truck Driving
Accessibility
- Accessibility Features:
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- Text Access - Text to Speech
- Text Adjust - Compatible
- Text Adjustment - Adjust Font and Colors
- Reading Layout - Reflow the Text
- Reading Layout - Page numbers match printed material
- Reading Layout - Reflow the Text
- Reading Order - Digital resource layout
- Hyperlinks Rendered As Active
- Colors Compatible With Assistive Technology
- Contrast Ratio of at Least 4.5:1.
- Non-Decorative Images Have Alt Text
- Decorative Images Marked With Null Alt Text
- Complex Images, Charts, and Graphs Have Text Descriptions
- Non Flickering Content
- STEM Content (e.g. Mathematics, Chemistry) Markup
- STEM - Notation markup
- Interactive - Keyboard
Copyright / Licensing