The Adult Education assists adults to prepare for postsecondary education, successful careers, and productive lives. Instruction is conducted in an informal learning environment, with an emphasis on individual or small group instruction. Adult Education activities include, but are not limited to the following:
Adult Basic Education (ABE)
This program is designed for students to develop basic literacy skills in reading, writing, or math. Emphasis is on vocabulary development, comprehension improvement, dictionary skills, critical thinking, writing, basic math computation, and math problem solving. The curriculum is designed to prepare students for further education, enhance basic skills required for job placement or advancement, improve self-esteem of adults, and empower students to achieve their goals.
General Adult Education (GAE)
General adult education is designed to satisfy the basic educational needs of adults. The curriculum develops skills to enable a student to earn a high school diploma, to prepare students for further education, to improve information processing skills and computational skills, to satisfy the continuing education demands of adults in the current labor market, and to empower adults to achieve their goals.
GED Program
This program is designed for those persons who would like to earn their Arkansas High School diploma through the General Educational Development program (GED). Students must earn a passing score on the Official GED Practice Test before they may take the Official GED Test. Instructional focus will be on the topics that are included in the GED battery of five tests: language arts/writing, language arts/reading, science, social studies, and mathematics.
There is no charge for adult education classes or GED testing.
Enrollment for 16 and 17 year old students Students who are sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years old must make formal application to their school district for a waiver to enroll in the adult education program.
Once accepted by the adult education program, the sixteen or seventeen year old student must stay in the program until successful completion of the GED (Arkansas High School Diploma), the student’s eighteenth birthday, or the student’s return to the sending school district.
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Adult Education assists students in preparing for postsecondary education, successful careers, and productive lives.
Adult Education can help students upgrade the skills needed to earn a high school diploma.
Instruction is conducted in an informal learning environment, with emphasis on individual or small group instruction.
The services are available at no cost to adult learners and are designed to meet the educational needs of each individual. Certified adult education instructors provide instruction. |
