Hello program manager colleagues,
We all hope that the current pandemic is a short-term crisis for our nation and the world, but a short-term crisis often creates the opportunity to solve long-term problems. We make changes and try new things because we must. Some changes don’t work; some are okay; others are better than what we were doing before.
In adult basic skills education these could be changes in any number of things, for example:
- Staffing (location of teachers, administrators; hiring staff, etc.)
- Student recruitment
- Student intake or registration
- Initial student assessment
- Curriculum choices
- Student goal-setting, and monitoring of student goals
- Instructional mode(s) (in-person, online, hybrid, blended, flex, etc)
- Professional development
- Standardized online post assessment
- Graduation
- Others?
What changes have you, or has your adult basic skills program or school, made that are better than what you had before the pandemic?
David J. Rosen, Moderator
LINCS Community Program Management group