What Your Students Will Learn
Not just GED® Test prep: a complete school of
continuing education for ABE, pre-GED, and GED adult
learners.
A Curriculum for the GED and Beyond
GED Academy preparation for the GED® test focuses on skills and capabilities that will serve adult learners in the workplace, in higher education, and in life. The GED Academy adult literacy program addresses basic and secondary math, communication, and critical thinking as the essential skills that will best serve students in the GED exam and beyond. Literacy skills in comprehension, analysis, application, and synthesis are fundamental to learning and functioning.
Beyond that, students learn support skills to help them acquire new knowledge and abilities: ways to set goals, ways to study, and ways to track and understand their own learning. The GED Academy serves as a broad literacy program, containing scaffolding to help students in all these areas as they acquire the basic literacy skills that they need.
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Time for a New Generation of Learning Technology
The first generation of educational software was designed to mimic textbooks and worksheets. By most ways of measuring success, the results have been disappointing for adult basic education. But a whole new generation of educational technology has been born that gives both the student and the adult literacy teacher amazing ways to accelerate learning. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching adults, now every adult literacy student can get exactly what he or she needs to maximize understanding and acquisition of basic literacy skills.
Adult learners have little patience with continuing education courses that are not relevant to their needs or are not interesting and motivating. This is why text-based software has had limited success. It does not engage the learner cognitively or emotionally. It’s passive learning.
How Does the GED Academy Teach?
The GED Academy has created an instructional design that involves your adult literacy students in a lively virtual classroom of students who are encountering the same challenges and issues they are. Further, our virtual classroom students bring a richness of multiple learning styles and interactivity that is simply not possible with text-based instruction. Learning with the GED Academy is like going to the movies instead of trying to memorize rote formulas and information. Take a look and see what we mean.
No Interest, No Engagement
Why do we use virtual characters in the program and not just single dimension text-based instruction like the other adult literacy software? Students can relate to our characters. They generate interest and relevance. By creating a multi-dimensional learning experience, we greatly increase engagement both cognitively and emotionally. The dialogues are where the real learning takes place. Research has shown that students learn dramatically faster and retain more because they develop a deeper understanding rather than a one-dimensional memorization of facts.
Teaching with Multiple Learning Styles
Each of the virtual characters brings a unique learning style that maximizes the depth of understanding of your adult literacy learners. Abstract material is presented from different perspectives so that all learners get it. Content is cemented in concrete examples and practical applications. The result is that your students will be able to apply the concepts to real life situations and make easier transitions to higher level post-secondary education.
Embedded In Real Life
Too often, adult literacy education is like learning to play tennis by being told the rules and practicing forehand, backhand, and serving without every playing or seeing a tennis match. Students are taught algebra and parsing of sentences without being given any idea of how algebra or parsing might be useful in their lives. We don’t teach that way. Our lessons are embedded in real life. Students learn to write by writing memos to fellow employees, or business plans for something they are passionate about, or letters to ex-husbands about custodial issues, or applications to schools for their children.
Learning Outcomes
Mathematics
Students will be able to do everyday math for the home and workplace. Students learn fundamental numeracy, including number operations and number sense; measurement and geometry; data analysis, statistics, an probability; and algebra, functions, and patterns. The focus of mathematics lessons is on application of math concepts and conceptual understanding. More about GED Academy math.
Science
Students learn how to make sense of and think through basic science concepts in everyday life. Students will learn how to read, understand, and utilize scientific texts, diagrams, charts, and graphs. Lessons focus on comprehension, analysis, application, and evaluation of science ideas in Earth and space science, physical science, and life science. More about GED Academy science.
Social Studies
Students will be able to understand and think through social studies ideas and problems in their everyday civic and home lives. In the social studies lessons, students will learn how to read, understand, evaluate, and utilize social studies texts, images, charts, and graphs. Lessons focus on comprehension, analysis, application, and synthesis of texts, images, charts, and graphs covering history, geography, civics and government, and economics. More about GED Academy social studies.
Language Arts, Reading
Students will be able to read everyday work, school, and home texts, as well as prose, drama, and poetry. The language arts, reading portion of GED Academy focuses on comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of texts. Students examine fiction and non-fiction texts, including drama, poetry, prose fiction, workplace documents, and argumentation. More about GED Academy reading.
Language Arts, Writing
Students will be able to communicate in their everyday life through clear writing in the home and workplace. In the GED Academy writing lessons, students will learn basic mechanics, usage, sentence structure, and organization. Students will also learn how to write an essay. Writing is approached as a communication tool, and students will learn how clear and cogent writing helps in their everyday lives. More about GED Academy writing.
Computer Essentials
Students will be able to use the computer technology needed for school, work, and home life. The upcoming GED Academy Computer Essentials course covers nine core digital literacy skills: understanding and using technology, digital citizenship, identifying needed information, finding information, organizing information, interpreting and showing information, evaluating information, creating digital content, and communicating in a digital environment. More about the GED Academy Computer Essentials course.
The GED Academy Accelerated Learning Program
Everything you need in one affordable package.
Online Assessment
More comprehensive assessment at less cost per student
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