Goal 3: Improved Literacy Skills through Adult Education

Improve the literacy skills, English proficiency, and educational attainment of adults and their families. 

Desired Long-term Outcome

Reduce illiteracy and increase educational attainment in central Georgia by increasing the number of students who achieve higher literacy skills levels or achieve a GED to 800 per year by FY2007.

Objectives

3A. Meet or exceed federally negotiated performance measures regarding the percentage of students demonstrating improvement in literacy skill levels in reading, writing, and speaking the English language, numeracy, problem-solving, English language acquisition, and other literacy skills each year. 

1. Improve instructional delivery to maximize the effectiveness of the learning process in adult literacy classes throughout the service area.
   
   
2. Study adult literacy students’ attrition and use study findings to develop methods to improve adult literacy students’ retention rate.
   
   
3. Increase marketing of adult literacy services through mass media, including extensive use of billboards and student success stories, to encourage student enrollment and achievement. 

3B. Meet or exceed federally negotiated performance measures regarding percentage of students placed in,, retained in, or completing postsecondary education, training, unsubsidized employment, or career advancement each year. 

1. Initiate a process to conduct longitudinal research to track adult literacy student outcomes.
   
   
2. Provide career counseling and active recruitment of GED students and graduates throughout the service area to encourage them to enroll in technical programs.
   
   
3. Use the more advanced adult literacy classes to provide continued academic support and remediation for students who are enrolled in technical programs.
   
   
4. Provide improved job placement assistance for adult literacy and GED students through use of available DTAE and CGTC job information, career counseling and placement resources. 

3C. Meet or exceed federally negotiated performance measures regarding the number of students who receive a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent each year.

1. Continue to work with superintendents of schools and their staffs to enroll dropouts in adult literacy classes as quickly as possible after they have exhausted their options to remain in or have chosen to leave high school.
   
   
2. Increase the availability and dissemination of material on GED attainability and how to use the GED HOPE voucher.
   
   
3. Collaborate with area business and industry to enlist their help in encouraging employees and potential employees who do not have a high school diploma to earn a GED. 

3D. Expand access to CGTC adult literacy, GED, and ELP instruction via traditional classrooms, remote-site classrooms, television, satellite, and/or online instruction each year.

1. Continue to expand the delivery of adult literacy, GED and ELP classes in all eight seven counties throughout the service delivery area to increase the accessibility of services.
   
   
2. Expand access to adult literacy, GED, and ELP services through implementation of the comprehensive technology and technology-infrastructure improvement program.

3E. Implement an improved data collection, data storage, and data reporting system for adult literacy services students.

1. Develop and implant systems and software to include adult literacy, GED, and ELP in BANNER with interfaces to the new NRS and GED automated scoring systems. 

3E1. Implement automated GED scoring to meet federal guidelines and provide ongoing training and material support for the system.

1. Seek to serve as a pilot site for new GED scoring system upgrades as they become available. 

3F. Provide adult literacy instruction that will improve students’ awareness of health issues and practices by FY2003.

1. Become a leading site for the delivery of the Health Literacy program developed by the DTAE Office of Adult Literacy.