The 7 Disciplines of the Successful Adult Education GED Class
How your instructors can learn to teach GED Prep as an exciting and engaging Curriculum and help your Adult Education campus achieve its goals!
How your instructors can learn to teach GED Prep as an exciting and engaging Curriculum and help your Adult Education campus achieve its goals!
This guide has been prepared to demonstrate the superior results that can be gained by employing seven specific disciplines that will lead your staff towards teaching GED Prep as Curriculum and help more of your students to pass the GED Test.
As an Adult Education Administrator you have a great privilege, a great challenge and a singular focus as it relates to your GED program.
You have the privilege of building bridges for adult students in your community. Your GED Prep classes are a bridge from despair to confidence and better lives.
Your challenge is putting the right teachers in place with the right materials and teaching plans so that students in your community are able to enroll in your GED Prep classes and thrive.
Your singular focus is making regular investments in your GED Instructors that incrementally increase your instructor's confidence, competence and ability to provide effective instruction to adult learners.
This short title will help you to more fully enjoy your privilege, successfully meet your challenge and make wise investments in your classroom leaders by outlining "The 7 Disciplines of the Successful Adult Education GED Class."
Damon A. Tinnon
GED® Teacher Damon Tinnon is a credentialed Adult Education Teacher in the State of California and teaches GED® Preparation in the beautiful Napa Valley.
Tinnon has served as a consultant to administrators of adult education programs, library GED Programs, and jail and prison GED programs. Tinnon provides direct coaching and training to GED instructors and assists with the implementation of the Get Your GED Now Test Preparation Series.
Tinnon created the Get Your GED® Now Test Preparation Series, which is a 13 lesson GED Prep curriculum that produces engaged classrooms, measures the right student data, increases accountability to administration and district leadership and ultimately helps more students pass all four GED Tests.
Tinnon is one of the most recognizable GED instructors on the You Tube video platform, accumulating more than 1,500,000 videos views and serving more than 10,000 subscribers with more than 230 relevant GED Preparation videos and supporting content.
GED Teacher, Damon Tinnon
DISCIPLINE 1
When your instructors receive preparation, coaching and training, including setting clear expectations, your instructors and your students thrive.
DISCIPLINE 2
Instructors should develop a reading and study plan to master the Assessment Guide for Educators, the Performance Level Descriptors and the High Impact Indicators as promulgated by the GED Testing Service. Based on this mastery, instructors can develop a GED classroom plan independent of any single GED study content provider.
GED Teacher, Damon Tinnon
DISCIPLINE 3
Classroom meetings should be balanced and planned and communicated to students by a written syllabus. As a rule of thumb, 1/3 of class time should be group lesson, 1/3 should be personal study and 1/3 should be one-to-one teacher-student time. The syllabus should cover the classroom plan for the full semester.
DISCIPLINE 4
When your instructors take the time to get to know their students at the beginning, trust is established and less time is wasted. Expectations can be set on both sides. Students can receive a reasonable yet flexible time frame in which to reach their goals and are more likely to engage (attend regularly, participate in class, get to know other students, accept teacher's direction and advice, etc.) in class and complete what they set out to do.
GED Teacher, Damon Tinnon
DISCIPLINE 5
Math is best taught in three steps. Step one is the skill, both basic and advanced. Step two is the word problem involving the skill. Step three is the word problem that draws on graphs, pictures or other visual sources of information. With this approach, students are fully prepared for what they will face on the GED Math Test.
DISCIPLINE 6
Math is best taught in an order that builds upon the previous skills. That order is as follows: Fractions, Percentages, Ratios and Proportions, Basic Shapes (Geometry), Positive and Negative Numbers, Solving Equations, Linear Equations, Exponents and Polynomials and Inequalities, Factoring and Quadratic Equations.
DISCIPLINE 7
Reading and Writing is best covered individually. Assign reading and writing weekly and make time to discuss one-to-one.
Would you like to bring the seven disciplines to your campus? It is a three hour training delivered in person or via webinar that puts tools in the hands of your teachers that will amplify your classrooms both immediately and incrementally as these seven disciplines are embraced and implemented over time.
To learn more about scheduling this training for your campus, use the contact information below.
Damon Tinnon
707-385-1680
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