Name: Cheryl Knight Final Project Topic: Ged Corps Course Visioning

Name: Cheryl Knight Final Project Topic: GED Corps Course Visioning Exercises I. Your Learners

This course is a continuing education course for anyone with at least an undergraduate degree and little to no formal teaching experience who express an interest in becoming a GED tutor. Those with some college credit will be enrolled on an individual basis.

II. Critical Questions 1. What is the GED? 2.

How is teaching adults different than children?

3. 4.

How does one communicate with and motivate their students? Where to begin teaching when each student is at a different level?

III. Critical Outcomes After completing the course student will: 1. Have a first hand understanding of the GED test and all its parts, 2. Create lesson plans and activities appropriate for the adult basic learner. 3. Know how to communicate effectively with individuals and small groups so they want to continue their studies. 4. Be able to assess learner’s needs and help them create goals. IV. Critical Work 1.

Each student will take the GED exam and grade a practice examine of an adult learner. (Know what you teach) 2. Create and lead interactive communication activities in a virtual classroom. 3. Analyze a small group of fictitious learners and create lifelong learning plans (adult equivalent of IEP’s) for each up to and past their GED. 4. Create a lesson plan for 3 of the 5 parts of the GED test for one of those learners (above)

V. Alignment I feel like my questions, outcomes, and work are in much better alignment now than before. I would like to see the beginning of the course consist of taking the GED, and an intro to lesson planning for adults (Unit 1) In the middle unit, I’d like to work on virtual classroom creation and communication activities where each student will create and lead and activity, while the GED tests are being graded, and an intro to lifelong learning plans (unit 2). In the final unit, the students will receive their egroup of Adult Basic Learners, and have to analyze their students needs, create a learning plan to help them pass the GED, and a lesson plan for 3 of the 5 units; math being one of them because it has the highest failure rate nationwide (Unit 3).