Description
Designed for Latino orchard employees at a supervisory level. Includes basic instruction in Spanish emphasizing technical terminology in English in many facets of tree fruit production; basic math, practice in reading, writing, speaking and listening in English based in horticultural topics; and presentations of subjects concerning everyday life and citizenship.
Grading Basis
Pass / No Pass
Course Learning Outcomes
Core Topics
- Historical perceptive
- Plant Physiology
- Soils and irrigation management
- Integrated Pest and Management and sprayer calibration
- Pruning and training/orchard systems
- Personnel management
- Orchard safety and economics
- Write sentences and short compositions using standard English
- Understand spoken English
- Converse in English with class mates, instructors and employers
- Demonstrate ability to compute whole numbers in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in computation and word problems
- Introduction to working with fractions
- Keyboarding and basic computer program functions
- Introduction to the internet
- Understanding and working within cultural differences
- Discussing various subjects that arise which are important to the class