SINGLE STEP PROGRAM
For over 35 years, the Community College of Baltimore County Single Step Program has been changing lives by providing programs for adults with disabilities. Single Step provides students with academic, pre-vocational, social, and independent living skills necessary for success in college study, employment, and adult life.

Students' development is supported through:

• Basic skills instruction specifically designed for special learners
• 6-1 student-teacher ratio
• Community-based field trips
• Interactive learning activities designed to connect learning with students' real lives, goals, and communities.

Transition Program Courses Include:

• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Computer Literacy
• Skills and Concepts for Employment
• Skills and Concepts for Independent Living

Register now for Fall 2008! Evening and Weekend courses include:

• Beginning Literacy for Special Learners
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Literacy and the Young Child
• Mathematics and the Young Child
• Science and the Young Child
• Managing the Early Childhood Classroom
• Basic Skills for Independent Travel
• Writing and Speaking Skills
• Culinary Calculations: Math, Money, Food, and Dining
• The Garden Project: Geometry, Art and Science in Your Own Backyard
• Basic Skills and Concepts for Visual Arts
• The New Frontier: From Entitlement to Eligibility

Certificate Options

• Childcare (Maryland State 90 Hour Certificate)
• Warehouse and Forklift Safety
• Clerical and Office Skills

For more information, registration and interview dates, please call our office at 410-285-9762 or email singlestep@ccbcmd.edu

Summer Life Skills Institute
Are you ready for the real world? For the first time, Single Step offers students a summer of independent living skills, community exploration, and employment preparation on a CCBC campus.
Courses include:

• It's Your Turn to Manage Your Life
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Vocational Readiness
• Basic Skills for Independent Travel
• Writing and Speaking Skills
• Culinary Calculations: Math, Money, Food, and Dining
• The New Frontier: From Entitlement to Eligibility

The New Frontier: From Entitlement to Eligibility
Total Cost: $120 (Tuition: $30 Fees: $90)
This course is designed to provide students with information regarding services available as they transition from public schools' special education programs to adult disabilities services. Topics to be covered include sheltered employment, pre-vocational programs, Social Security coverage, financial assistance for college courses, community college programs and services, services that end after exit from public schools.

Managing the Early Childhood Classroom
Total Cost: $120 (Tuition: $30 Fees: $90)
This course is designed to give students hands on instruction in best practices for managing typical, challenging behaviors and situations within a daycare or preschool setting. Topics to be covered include positive versus negative reinforcement, use of reward systems, focusing on positive behaviors, classroom set up and arrangements to meet children's needs, setting routines and clear expectations, consistency of reinforcement and expectations, engaging students in rule setting and management.

Literacy and the Young Child
Total Cost: $120 (Tuition: $30 Fees: $90)
This course is designed to give students hands on instruction in best practices for teaching early and pre-literacy skills to preschool age children within a daycare or preschool setting. Topics to be covered include phonemic awareness, art projects that enhance literacy instruction, dramatic play, early sight word vocabulary building, use of music in teaching literacy, and selection and creation of classroom materials used to teach early literacy.

Science and the Young Child
Total Cost: $120 (Tuition: $30 Fees: $90)
This course is designed to give students hands on instruction in best practices for teaching early skills of scientific inquiry and concepts of science to preschool age children within a daycare or preschool setting. Topics to be covered include use of science materials appropriate to preschool classrooms, art projects that enhance science instruction, use of games in teaching science, use of stories, music and dance in the teaching of science skills, and selection and creation of classroom materials used to teach concepts of science.

Culinary Calculations: Math, Money, Food and Dining
Total Cost: $250 (Tuition: $50 Fees: $200)
This course is designed to provide students with the mathematics skills used in everyday living. Topics to be covered include measurement of volume and weight, fractions concepts, adding, subtracting, multiplying and comparing fractions, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing sums of money, calculating percents, following written directions, reading to complete a task.

Writing and Speaking Skills
Total Cost: $250 (Tuition: $50 Fees: $200)
This course is designed to provide students with writing and speaking skills used in and needed for everyday living. Topics to be covered include writing business letters, writing friendly letters, relaying messages verbally and in writing, public speaking, writing using the writing process.

Basic Skills and Concepts of Visual Arts
Total Cost: $250 (Tuition: $50 Fees: $200)
This course is designed to provide students with instruction in basic principles and history of five of the mediums of visual art. Topics to be covered include types of art media, various.

Single Step Program and Talmar Gardens and Horticulture
The Garden Project
This 10-hour course is designed to help you build the perfect garden using basic geometry, measurement, basic botany, and basic design principles.
This course will teach you:

• How plants grow and develop
• How to identify plants indigenous to the Mid-Atlantic
• Basic steps in the care of plants and flowers
• How to use math to plant a garden
• How to use basic geometry skills to design a garden
• How to use color in basic floral design
• Styles of garden design

Warehouse Technician Certification Program
Earn a living in the fast-growing world of warehouse and distribution work. With courses located on the Dundalk and Essex campuses, students will learn to:

• operate forklifts,
• perform tasks required in a warehouse or distribution centers,
• complete an 8 week internship at an area warehouse

Courses include:

• Forklift Operator Training
• Warehouse Technician Practicum
• Vocational Readiness
• Warehouse Methods and Safety
• Reading and Writing for the Warehouse
• Mathematics for the Warehouse

For more information, registration and interview dates, please call our office at 410-285-9762 or email singlestep@ccbcmd.edu