REGISTRATION IS CLOSED - Planning for the GED 2014 Test Series -- Part 2 of 2 (SE)
- Overview
- This series of two sessions is designed to help your program begin the process of preparing for GED 2014 by looking at how the GED assessment will be changing for January 2014 and examining and discussing strategies for program adaptations for preparation for new GED Exam. By the end of Session 1 a program will have a beginning list of the changes. Back at the program, the staff will discuss, add to and refine this list of needed changes. In Session 2, a credible working draft of a GED Preparation Change Plan will be produced so that programs will start FY13 with a sense of where the program is headed and how it will get there. It is recommended that teams of stakeholders (administrators, teachers, advisors and possibly students) from each program attend, with a minimum of two persons from each program. This level of participation is essential for the second session, as the program team will be producing a draft work plan.
- Details
Date: June 11 & 22, 2012
Time: 9:30 am - 1:00 pm Light refreshments will be served
Place: Bristol Community College
777 Elsbree Street
Fall River, MA 02720
Building H - Room 129
Participants must attend both sessions and pairs or small teams from programs are encouraged.
Please register for BOTH session 1 on June 11th and session 2 on June 22nd.
10 PDPs will be available upon successful completion of this course and submission of your plan.
- When
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Jun 22, 2012
from
09:30 am
to
01:00 pm
- Where
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- On campus (see below)
- 777 Elsbree Street
- Fall River, MA 02720
- Registration Deadline
- Jun 05, 2012 at 5:00 PM
- Topics
- GED
- Maximum attendance
- 24
- Multi-session attendance required
- yes
- Contact info
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Nicole Rondeau
nicole.rondeau@bristolcc.edu
(508) 678-2811 ext. 2278 - Learning objectives
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Learning Objectives for Part 2:
Participants will :
1. Create an action plan for their program (including specific actions, and a draft timeline and budget) with the steps they will take to prepare students, instructors, advisers and administrators for the anticipated changes to the GED 2014 test series and to make needed changes in the program itself, to address such issues as:
• Need for greater instructional intensity through face-to-face and/or online instruction • Need for students to have good keyboarding and other computer com fort and competence skills • How to address preparing for the considerably more difficult math test • Whether or not, and if so what kinds of, teacher professional development is needed, and • How best to prepare students who may be uncomfortable with taking a high-stakes test on a computer.
2. Share their action plans with others in the workshop and consider adding ideas learned from the sharing to their own action plans.
- Presenters
- David J. Rosen, Ed.D.
- Presenters Bio
- David J. Rosen, Ed.D. Was the Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute/SABES Greater Boston Regional Support Center from 1986 to 2003. As an independent consultant he has recently provided design or technical assistance and/or training to: The Philadelphia Youth Network and Youth Essential Services Philadelphia to help GED preparation programs make changes in anticipation of GED 2014 test series, Education Development Center, Waltham, MA, in a collaboration with Corinthian Colleges, Inc. to improve GED preparation programs and prepare for changes as a result of the elimination in the federal Ability To Benefit policy, and for changes in the GED Test in 2014, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA. Consultant to Greater Baton Rouge Literacy Coalition in Louisiana to help three of their member programs, Literacy Works, Adult Literacy Advocates, and the YWCA Center for Family Empowerment, to plan new workforce development initiatives and much, much more!
- Prerequisites
- ATTENDANCE AT SESSION 1
- Host RSC
- Southeast Massachusetts Region
- PDPs
- yes
