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1. Why do you believe CCR department has shifted it's focus from

getting a GED to more education and career preparation?

2. What ways have you incorporated

Career exploration into your classroom?

3. If you have yet to do it, how do you plan

to integrate career awareness into your class?

4. What do you feel are the best ways to shift students'

focus from just getting a GED to What will I do 5 years

from now?

5. If you got a grant in order to integrate career readiness into GED

Prep, how would you use it? What would you do?

6, Do you know what Work Keys is?

7. Have you used Workforce Connects?

YOU CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ON HERE!

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The GED Testing Service has released a revised Item Sampler of question formats for the 2014 tests. GEDTS notes that it provides more of an emphasis on multiple-choice questions than the previous edition. We have linked to it at the top of our GED 2014 Test Updates webpage. Share widely and post what you think about it.

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The GED Testing Service has released a revised Item Sampler of question formats for the 2014 tests. GEDTS notes that it provides more of an emphasis on multiple-choice questions than the previous edition. We have linked to it at the top of our GED 2014 Test Updates webpage.

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Appalachian State Lesson Plans for all aspects of HCP

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Appalachian State Lesson Plans for all aspects of HCP

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The North Carolina Community College System in partnership with ABSPD produced the NCCCS Adult Education Standards and Resources. Per WIOA guidlelines, "The adult education component of [Integrated Education and Training] must be aligned to the State's content standards." Click HERE to find the standards and accompanying toolkit of resources.

ABSPD teaches seven face-to-face workshops for the NCCCS CORE credential. These workshops are designed for instructors who teach students at the ABE level (under grade level equivalent 9.0). These workshops include: Applying Content Standards, Assessment to Instruction, Evidence Based Reading, Evidence Based Writing, Evidence Based Math, Contextualized Instruction, and Teaching Strategies Integrating Technology. Click HERE to find the page containing the handouts and other resource materials from these workshops.

ABSPD teaches workshops for the NCCCS Adult Secondary Education (ASE) credentials. These workshops are designed for instructors who teach students in grade level equivalents 9.0 to 12.9. These are four workshops in language arts, four workshops in math, four workshops in science and four workshops in social studies. Click HERE to find the page containing the handouts and other resource materials from these workshops.

ABSPD sponsors a lending library that allows North Carolina College and Career Readiness instructors to borrow high interest, levelled books for a semester. We will ship the books to you free of charge. You are then responsible for the costs of returning them to ABSPD via media mail. We have many titles that are described in a searchable database. Click HERE to find the printable list of the lending library.

ABSPD created 38 vocabulary lessons for adult learners that each have five Tier 2 words. These lessons are designed to be taught using direct instruction. Click HERE to find the lessons.

WIOA, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, is the Federal legislation that governs how our adult basic education programs should be run. Click HERE to find a page of resources that help instructors teach in the WIOA era.

How can we help our students prepare for the argument writing tasks they face on the GED, HiSET and TASC? Click HERE to find resources to help our adult basic education students be successful.

What keeps our adult students in class? Click HERE to find some evidence based research studies on what strategies are effective in retaining our adult learners.

Click HERE to find resources for helping your students achieve success on their Social Studies GED, HiSET or TASC test.

Click HERE to find some resources to help your ESOL students with communication skills.

GED Math Menagerie

GED Science Spectacular!

GED Technology

GED Science Guide

An Extended Look at the GED 2014 Extended Response

Transition to Postsecondary Education

TASC Resources

GED Writing Round-Up

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The North Carolina Community College System in partnership with ABSPD produced the NCCCS Adult Education Standards and Resources. Per WIOA guidlelines, "The adult education component of [Integrated Education and Training] must be aligned to the State's content standards." Click HERE to find the standards and accompanying toolkit of resources.

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Here are some links where you may find career planning and job-related lessons to fit well into your HCP (High School Equivalency Program)