TO: EVOC 501 Instructor
FROM: Leonard A. Moreno
DATE: February 02, 2002
RE: EVOC 501, WR3 Assignment

The purpose of the WR3 Assignment was to prepare a one page sample course plan and a one page sample unit plan appropriate for the course I teach in Basic Computer Repair.

The following six criteria were specified:

1. Comply with all of the General Criteria for Written Reports.
    

2. Prepare a report that looks neat and professional.
    

3. Develop a one page sample course plan that includes a course description and a description of each of three units.
    

4. Develop a one page sample unit plan that includes a unit description (one of the units from the course description) and a description of each of three lessons.
    

5. Indicate the time required to complete the entire course, each unit and each lesson described.
    

6. When writing the lesson descriptions focus on specific student performance that involves only simple tasks in the context of short lessons.

The following sources of information were used relative to this assignment:

1. Moreno, Leonard - From my own professional experience.
    

2. Google World Wide Web Search Engine, http://www.google.com.
    

3. Weaver, Mary - Beginning Underwater Basket Weaving, The Grassroots Press, Oklahoma City 1863. (this is the textbook that is required for the course).
    

4. Kozierok, Charles - The PCGuide, Interactive CD-ROM, Edition 2.2 May 2001, http://www.pcguide.com (this is the required reference for the course).

SAMPLE COURSE & UNIT PLANS FOR A COURSE
IN BASIC COMPUTER REPAIR
by
Leonard Moreno

ONE PAGE SAMPLE COURSE PLAN:

COURSE OVERVIEW: BASIC COMPUTER REPAIR

Basic Computer Repair is a course designed to acquaint students with the basic principles of PC computer repair.  The history, troubleshooting and repair techniques of computer repair are reviewed and students are provided to opportunity to fix and repair computers. This is a 180 hour course that covers 40 different study units and meets for 2.5 hours, twice a week for 36 weeks. The following units are typical of the units in this course:

STUDY UNIT I - INTRODUCTION AND COURSE REQUIREMENTS

This 5-hour unit of study is designed to be delivered during the first and second, 2.5 hour class sessions. Students will provide information about their individual backgrounds and the instructor will review all course topics, assignments and other course requirements. This unit included 40 individual lesson plans. At the conclusion of this unit all students should be able to identify everything that they must do in order to earn a passing grade in this course.

STUDY UNIT II - THEORY AND HISTORY

This 5-hour unit of study is designed to be delivered during the third and fourth 2.5 hour class sessions. The instructor will provide specific information about historical and theoretical concepts that have influenced the evolution of modern personal computer. This unit included 4 individual lesson plans. At the conclusion of this unit all students should be able to identify the four historical milestones that have influenced the development of technology and write out their own philosophy of computing evolution.

STUDY UNIT III - TROUBLESHOOTING PRINCIPLES

This 10 hour unit of study is designed to be delivered during the fifth through eight 2.5 hour class sessions. The instructor will discuss the seven basic principles commonly applied to troubleshooting a repair problem to fix a computer. This unit included 3 individual lesson plans. At the conclusion of this unit all students should be able to name and describe each of those seven principles.

ONE PAGE SAMPLE UNIT PLAN:

UNIT III - TROUBLESHOOTING PRINCIPLES

This 10 hour unit of study is designed to be delivered during the fifth through eight 2.5 hour class sessions. The instructor will discuss the seven basic principles commonly applied to troubleshooting a repair problem to fix a computer. This unit included 3 individual lesson plans. At the conclusion of this unit all students should be able to name and describe each of those seven principles.

LESSON 1 - CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

At the conclusion of this 10 minute lesson each student should be able to describe in writing one basic procedure needed in order to extract pertinent information and history from the customer to aid in the detective process in hope of narrowing down the list of potential solutions.

LESSON 2 - TROUBLESHOOTING PYRAMID

At the conclusion of this 20 minute lesson each student should be able to describe in writing two of the seven basic principles of the troubleshooting pyramid in order to facilitate a repair problem to solution and repair.

LESSON 3 - REPAIR

At the conclusion of this 10 minute lesson each student should be able to describe in writing the one precautionary strategy that must be employed before a repair is performed.

QUIZ ON UNIT III

During the final 20 minutes of this unit, students will be given an essay type quiz in which they will be asked to write out the answers to questions that reflect exactly what is stated that they should be able to do as a result of each of the seven lessons in this unit.