Next Steps: Careers, College, Computers, and Starting Your Own Business

This is an Inquiry Map made in April and May, 1997 in Diana Satin's ESOL Class at the Jamaica Plain Community Centers' Adult Learning Program in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Students' Questions

Careers

1. What do Social Workers Do?

College

1. Which colleges in the Boston area are inexpensive?

2. Are expensive colleges better, for example, if one is preparing for a particular career?

3. Are private colleges better than public colleges? If so, why?

4. Which colleges offer computer courses?

5. How much does college cost?

6. How do you apply for college financial aid?

7. Can you earn more money if you have a college degree? If so, how much more, on average, for each additional degree?

8. How much English do you need to know to enter college? How much English to pursue a particular career in college? For example, how much English to pursue nursing as a career?

9. Do you usually get a better education if you spend more money? If this is true, why? Can you get a better job or get hired faster? If so, is this discrimination?

Computers

1. When you don't know anything about computers, what should your first step be?
For example, learning keyboard skills?

2. How can I find out what computer is the best for me to buy?

3. What is the best way (or some good ways) to learn about computers?

Starting Your Own Business

1. What do you need to know and to do to start your own business?

2. Do you have to go to college to start your own business? If so, for how many years?

3. How can someone save money or borrow money to start a business?

4. What are the advantages or disadvantages of starting a business as a partnership?