Sources last verified, March 2002

GED Testing Service: www.gedtest.org or same site at American Council on Education: www.acenet.edu/clll/ged

User-friendly updates, fact sheets, history of GED, Test overview, scoring, accommodation for LD, other.

Relaxed and very informative programs with key professionals who developed the new test. Good for individual as well as group use.

"GED Sampler" by Steck Vaughn. To order, call 1-800-782-2512

Small booklet of question samples with explanatory answers, and a poster with clear comparisons of the 1988 and 2002 test versions.

Understanding by Design, by Wiggins & McTighe. Merrill Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1998.

Wonderful concept of "Backwards Design" presented, to help instructors think like assessors, rather than activity designers. Helps reader learn to assess to be able to check for understanding, and what understanding really means.

Bloom's Taxonomy - Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals. Bloom, BS (Ed.) (1956)

A standard in educational theory.

Manual - Provides overview of GED 2002 test, Bloom's Taxonomy and the Multiple Intelligences; Provides strategies for helping students think critically, teaching tips, and help in developing integrated and thematic unit lessons.

Video - class lesson simulations to demonstrate thematic unit planning and teaching, which ties all GED subjects under one study theme with interactive and participatory methods.

Includes a number of interesting statistics about the GED and GED completers.

Website - Provides information, teaching tips, and lesson plans on helping students think critically and prepare for the GED 2002.

Note: lessons tend to be complicated and broad, but they can be streamlined to fit needs.

How to teach students about how to think, to teach for understanding and plan appropriately. Helps an instructor understand memory connections and learning for transfer in an adult. Sample lesson plan ideas. Accessible, easy read. Good resource for professional staff
development.

Teaching for Successful Intelligence: To Increase Student Learning and Achievement by Sternberg & Grigorenko. Illinois: Skylight Professional Development. (2000).

Develops the theory of successful intelligence and the triarchic teaching model, providing for students' analytical, creative, and practical thinking tendencies. Sample lesson ideas after every chapter.

Excellent foundational research that describes the hard and soft skills employers have identified that employees need to succeed in the workplace. Developed for general, and then specific job titles. Useful for curriculum development and lesson planning guidance.

"Accommodating Accommodations" and "How to apply for accommodations: the L-15 form. " Developed by Kathleen Kidder and the US Department. of Education http://home.gwu.edu/%7Ekkid/gedhome.htm

To find an excellent website on Bridges to Practice, go to the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) site, at www.nifl.gov, and click on the Bridges to Practice icon at the bottom of the cover page.

This is a thorough research-based guide for literacy practitioners serving adults with learning disabilities.

Covers many aspects and issues related to LD in the adult student population. This site also
offers many other professional development options.

Central Illinois Adult Education Service Center's "Part 1: Phasing Into the New GED 2002: Preparing Students to Think Critically" (#539 or 539A)
Order - 1-800-322-3905 or see site www.cait.org

Manual - Provides overview of GED 2002 test, Bloom's Taxonomy and the Multiple Intelligences; Provides strategies for helping students think critically, teaching tips, and help in developing integrated and thematic unit lessons.

Video - class lesson simulations to demonstrate thematic unit planning and teaching, which ties all GED subjects under one study theme with interactive and participatory methods.

Includes interesting statistics about the GED and GED completers.

Website - Provides information, teaching tips, and lesson plans on helping students think critically and prepare for the GED 2002.

Note: lessons tend to be complicated and broad, but they can be streamlined to fit needs.

For Training information: Call Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
800-237-0178.

Both of these curriculum packages are interactive and professionally developed. Virginia holds a state license to both, so the videos and workbooks are also affordable. Online internet lessons are free. Both systems require training. Information on this can be obtained through the VALRC (above). Workplace Essential Skills is workplace - oriented, and aims at both the general adult education audience, as well as the Pre-GED student. GED Connections is for GED study, presented with an emphasis on workplace and "real world" application.

Check out their websites for good information, learner sites, and access to professional development online. PBS announces on-line lessons for ESL coming in 2003, and online professional development for ESL educators coming in 2002.

Includes lesson plans and in-service opportunities online. Lessons may download slowly from this site, but they are thorough and interesting.

Large 3-ring binder with all 5 GED topics addressed. Correlates lesson plans to the Steck-Vaughn GED 2002 workbooks. Provides group activities and extension activities to address need for critical thinking and real-life application.

"GED 2002: Everything You Need to Know " and "GED 2002: Making the Transition." Obtain on loan through the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center (1-800-237-0178) or email request to vdesk@vcu.edu.

Relaxed and very informative programs with key professionals who developed the new test. Good for individual as well as group use.

Free training on GED tests, Math, Writing and Critical Thinking. More training topics to come. Orientation available on friendly, easy to navigate website

Personalized service and resource center. Materials mostly shipped free to you. Professional Development and Training provided, both in person and online. On the website, click on "GED Information" for updates and links regarding GED 2002. Also links to NIFL and LINCS.

How to teach students about how to think, to teach for understanding and plan appropriately. Helps an instructor understand memory connections and learning for transfer in an adult. Sample lesson plan ideas. Accessible, easy read. Good resource for professional staff development.

For general information, call 1-800-62MYGED. Will also direct student to the nearest testing center.

This is the national service center.

This is the state-funded service center, based at the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. It offers help with GED information and resources, including how to interpret GED scores, study tips, test-taking strategies, information on practice testing.

Gives GED 2002 overview, an understanding of the test, how it is scored, its history, test sites, and sample GED questions.

www.gedpractice.com, offered by Steck-Vaughn
OR
www.pbs.org/literacy, offered by PBS Literacy Links/KET.

Links to a variety of useful sites with a brief summary of their content. Includes software reviews, workshop sites and internet resources for teachers and learners. Easy to navigate. Option to email Kit from the site with specific questions you may have. Kit is also the specialist for virtual learning for PBS Literacy Link's Workplace Essential Skills and GED Connections series.

Links to a variety of useful sites with a brief summary of their content. Includes software reviews, workshop sites and internet resources for teachers and learners. Easy to navigate. Option to email Kit from the site with specific questions you may have. Kit is also the specialist for virtual learning for PBS Literacy Link's Workplace Essential Skills and GED Connections series.

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States, by Liping Ma. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, 1999.

Why do Chinese students typically outperform American students in math? Even considering Chinese teachers receive far less formal mathematics education than in the US? Their success traces back to a deeper, integrated, understanding of math that is part of the Chinese culture. This book helps the reader improve his/her teaching approach to basic math by improving how she thinks about and understands the subject. Real-life stories and examples

Smart Solutions: Comprehensive Math Review from New Readers Press.
www.newreaderspress.com

Organized in 2-page spreads on most topics to facilitate student research.

See website to read articles at ncsall.gse.harvard.edu. Subscribe online or call the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center for more information at 1-800-237-0178.

An excellent quarterly newsletter - each publication themed to a specific instruction-oriented topic. Subscription is inexpensive, and articles can be read for free, online.