Using Technology to Enhance Instruction
As part of the registration process, we ask that you go through a short tutorial on online learning in order to better prepare yourself for success.
Are you a GED teacher who wants to enhance lessons through technology but aren't sure where to start? If you are, then this course will help you in those first steps towards joining the digital community.
By using technology with your students, you'll enhance your lessons and bring the world to your student's fingertips. While preparing for the GED Exam, your students can learn basic computer skills, giving them access to information and unlocking employment opportunities. Through an online course format, you can learn at your own pace from the comfort and convenience of your own home or office. Facilitators, available to help you throughout the eight-week course, lead you through the content and technical aspects of the course.
Each week's lesson addresses a topic in Using Technology to Enhance Instruction. Course activities include readings, assignments, and discussions. The lessons are sequential.
Lessons and resources included in the course:
- Our Online Community and the Benefits of Using Technology in Instruction
- Technology Readiness: Are You and Your Students Ready?
- What Does "Technology-Enhanced" Really Mean?
- Captured Wisdom: How Seven Classroom Instructors Used Student Goals, Content, and Context to Guide Technology-Based Instruction
- Captured Wisdom: Instructional and Grouping Strategies
- Project-Based Learning and the GED: Preparing Students for the Exam and the Workplace
- Building Technology-Enhanced Instruction and Effectively Planning Lessons
- Professional Development and Online Course Evaluation
- The Best of the Web: Resources for ABE, GED, and ESOL Teachers
- Instructional Strategies
- The Lesson Planning Process
- Glossary of Terms
In order to receive the certificate for participating in the Using Technology to Enhance Instruction training, you must complete all assignments, respond to the discussion postings of the facilitator, and respond to one of your classmates at least once in each discussion. Although there are due dates for each assignment, the final due date for all completed assignments will be one week after the course closes.