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The GED program poses some difficulty for teachers. Students who study for the GED may already had difficulty with the high school curriculum.

Previous issues:

  • Pregnancy
  • Legal issues
  • Expulsion
  • English as a second language
  • Immigration
  • Self-esteem

All of the above may alter a student’s work and learning for the GED. A GED teacher must teach to more than just the GED subject area. GED students knows if their GED teacher has life experience or is just blowing smoke. Whatever advice is given must work. The students always have a time constraint and not passing is a sword that hangs over their heads.

A typical student needs more than just teaching of a GED subject. There is an underlying issue that must be addressed if not helped. A teacher needs to know more than the GED subject area. How to cope with adults and teenagers in the same class. Eviction and green card issues come up. Teachers are resources for a group in society that don’t have many resources.

Most GED teachers are volunteers frequently unpaid and being burned out trying to handle the local needs of students. The GED has been an uphill battle to get it where it is today! It just that society doesn’t want to spend the money or acknowledge the problem. Hence eyes are averted, mouths are shut and literacy is not a problem here mindsets.

Each state controls how the GED is funded and operated within its borders. There is no national clearing house of GED programs and training. No measurement of performance or success. The federal government doesn’t care if the adult populace can read or write as long as they are silent.

If teachers could call on resources to handle the issues identified student minds could focus on the GED subject taught. Yes, teachers will also have to teach students how to learn. What works in one state should have a way reaching another state for their use. No need to have to reinvent the wheel over and over again.

Training for student and teacher should be sufficient to meet the GED goals. Why students who obtained their GED are not considered volunteers for teaching the GED is a mystery to me? In other words, If I teach a class of 20. The graduates of that class could each teach a class under supervision at first. With community colleges, distance learning, and the Internet technology has reduced tutor intensive teaching of years past. Online learning allow flexible opportunities for students to obtain teaching and maintain a job at the same time. Mothers and fathers may learn at home avoiding child care hassles and expenses.

The world can always use fully functioning adults in its society. The GED is scheduled for an upgrade in 2012. Resources and programs for adult literacy need to be tied in a national scope in which states implement their GED programs. Perhaps the GED could be taught first then the classes of diploma issuing high schools next. High school aren’t graduating enough people to seriously replenish or improve adult literacy of the working population of the United States.

Ronald E. Newton retired IBM Networking Consultant
25+ years developing online business networks, promoting and establishing
online classes for the GED and SAT preparation.
Resides: Greensboro, NC
Education: BS CNE CCNA MCP
Website: www.newtonclass.com
You may contact me at my website.

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