What students learn.
“What makes teaching GED® programs most challenging is the extreme variation of academic backgrounds. Even with placement testing, students have huge gaps in their knowledge and skills.
“We solve this problem with a multi-directional learning experience. Instruction is presented both horizontally and vertically. Students can move vertically through background material to fill in missing knowledge gaps as needed and move horizontally with lessons of increasing difficulty.
“This is a very different kind of learning program. It acts like a personal one-on-one tutor, constantly assessing and adjusting to the needs of the student.
“What it means for you is that you can easily differentiate your instruction to maximize the learning of every single student.”
Nothing left out . . .
Extra emphasis on reading, writing, and math
These are the core skills for learning success and often the weakest areas for high school dropouts. Our curriculum starts at a basic 7th and 8th grade level and takes the GED candidate through 12th grade in these important subject areas.
Aligned to national curriculum standards
The GED Academy curriculum is aligned with the ACE standards as well as national standards for math, science, reading, social studies, and writing.
Content is interesting, relevant and vital
According to a study done by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the most common reason for leaving high school is loss of interest and the perception that school is boring and not relevant to students’ lives. The GED Academy curriculum goes to great lengths to embed skills and knowledge in the context of issues and situations that are important and relevant.
Workforce and life skills (GED Diploma +)
We call it GED Diploma plus. We believe it’s not enough to teach just to the GED tests. Since most GED graduates go on to college and vocational schools, they need basic employability skills and workforce development to be competitive in the job market.
Bottom Line . . .
Your students learn more of what they need to know to be successful, not only on the GED exams, but in the job and life skills they need for success in life.
GED+ Curriculum
We work with the American Council on Education (ACE) to insure that our courses meet and exceed the knowledge and skills required for the GED tests. Our goal is to provide a complete basic skills education so that our graduates can not only do well on the GED exams, but more important, secure better jobs and postsecondary education.
Mathematics
Upon completion of GED Academy Prep your students will be able to:
- Do basic math, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with integers and rational numbers.
- Solve problems with fractions, decimals, percentages, negative numbers, exponents and ratios.
- Solve word problems with a systematic procedure.
- Solve problems with estimation and mental math.
- Use the Casio FX-260 Solar Scientific Calculator (the kind used on the GED tests).
- Solve simple interest problems.
- Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to solve geometry problems.
- Be familiar with and able to solve problems with customary and metric measurement.
- Understand and solve problems of central tendency, independent and dependent probability, and data analysis.
- Understand and solve problems involving charts, tables, and graphs.
- Understand and solve problems with basic geometry and algebra.
Reading
The GED Language Arts Reading test expects candidates to read at a 10th to 12th grade level. We realize that many GED candidates read at a lower level. We have designed our instruction to teach at a 6th grade reading level so that all students can learn. Upon completion of GED Academy prep your students will be able to:
- Draw conclusions by choosing salient information from text.
- Determine main ideas of passages.
- Draw inferences from text.
- Understand vocabulary from context by choosing contextual clues.
- Increase vocabulary recognition.
- Differentiate between fact and opinion.
- Recall facts and details.
- Understand, analyze, and interpret written materials based on work-related topics.
Writing
The GED Language Arts Writing tests expect the student to be able to demonstrate basic writing skills in a writing sample and to edit documents for organization, sentence structure, usage, and mechanics.
The GED Academy writing course is designed to be a stand-alone instructional program for high school and freshman college writing. It is a comprehensive program for teaching communication skills. Upon completion students will be able to:
- Understand how sentences are organized into paragraphs to communicate ideas effectively.
- Recognize and practice the elements of essay writing.
- Use and understand an effective organizational pattern.
- Practice proofreading and editing.
- Identify common problems in grammar, usage, and punctuation.
- Analyze and revise drafts to strengthen writing.
Science
The GED Science test measures the candidate's skills in understanding, interpreting and applying basic concepts in life, physical, and Earth and space science. Test outcomes focus on the demonstration of a broad science knowledge base and the ability to use a range of reasoning skills.
The GED Academy science course builds students’ skill in comprehension, interpretation, application and making logical inferences with science knowledge in life, physical and Earth and space science. Upon completion students will be able to:
- Find solutions to science problems.
- Develops conceptual understanding of science concepts.
- Comprehend and make inferences of passages with illustrated content.
- Apply concepts to new situations.
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic science concepts and vocabulary.
Social Studies
The GED Social Studies test measures the candidate's skills in comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation of U.S. and world history, geography, U.S. civics and government, and economics.
The GED Academy social studies course outcomes are:
- Understanding and restating information.
- Summarizing details and translating knowledge into new contexts.
- Making logical inferences and drawing conclusions.
- Identifying patterns and distinguishing fact from opinion.
- Recognize hidden cause and effect relationships.
- Comparing and discriminating among ideas.
- Assessing the value of theories, evidence, and presentations.
- Making choices based on reasoned arguments.
- Recognizing the role that values play in beliefs and decision making .
- Indicating logical fallacies in arguments.
