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Creative Workplace Learning. Adult Diploma Program. AGENDA. Introduction to CWL’s Adult Diploma Program The ADP Difference Significance of the ADP Sample Student Portfolios Support for the ADP. ADP: An Introduction. What is the Adult Diploma Program?
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Creative Workplace Learning Adult Diploma Program
AGENDA • Introduction to CWL’s Adult Diploma Program • The ADP Difference • Significance of the ADP • Sample Student Portfolios • Support for the ADP
ADP: An Introduction • What is the Adult Diploma Program? • An alternative program for adults who have never completed high school • Twelve courses of study bound together by the central theme of ongoing skill development applied to portfolio projects • Each class meets 4 hours per week for 5 weeks—a total of 20 hours of instruction
The CWL ADP Curriculum • Language Arts • reading comprehension and introduction to novels • writing improvement • Mathematics • Whole numbers, decimals, fractions and percents • Measurements and algebraic formulas • US History • Colonial Era to the American Revolution and Civil War • WWI & WWII, 20st Century Issues • Science • Physical Sciences • Biological Sciences • Life Employment Workshop • Skills and Interest Assessment and Analysis , "Where I've Been" • Career Planning "Where I Plan to Go" • Information Technology Literacy • Keyboarding, Windows, MS Word, Internet • Excel, PowerPoint, Access
Four Features of the ADP • Workplace Integration • Links the students’ academic studies with their work experience • Academic Fundamentals • A solid course of study resulting in a real high school diploma • Information Technology • integrates instruction in Microsoft Office applications software with the development of organizational, communications, mathematical and design skills • Support Services • Diploma consultant on site for case management and administrative assistance
What is the ADP Difference? • The ADP offers accredited high school diplomas • ADP participants are often employed and attend classes at their workplace • ADP participants often attend classes at housing developments near their homes • The LEW: Life Employment Skills Workshop (career planning)
Who are ideal ADP participants? • Adults who need a high school diploma • Adult immigrants who speak and read English but lack confidence in their abilities • Adults who desire to enroll in higher education • Adults who want to advance in their careers
Samples from a Portfolio Project:Life Employment Workshop, Assignment Evaluation
A Personal Note of Thanks… Good Morning Dr. David, I just wanted to thank you, for giving me a chance to be who I am and what I am right now. You gave me a tremendous help to finished High school and to fulfill my dream. Right Now I set aside my dream of being a nurse and go for the surest thing and that is to be in the program of surgical Technology. I applied to the Program 3 weeks ago within two weeks I got accepted and it will start in the fall of 2006. Dr. David, I am very great full for what you had done for me to change my life for the better, when I graduate in the fall of 2007, you will be the first one to know. I would like you, Matt, and Mrs Lovett to be there. I won't take up all your time but because you have a great deal of changing my life for the better I owed it all to you.(I graduated in 2001) Again Dr. David, Thank you. Sincerely Benita R. Legaspi Nov '03 Nov '05
Significant Outcomes • Increased self-efficacy, confidence and self-sufficiency at work • Improved development in maturity and flexibility of learning styles • Increased participation in meetings, communications and relationships at work *as documented by Harvard University Adult Development Research Group in a study for the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy.
Creative Workplace Learning • Contact Information: Lloyd David, Ed.D CWL President Creative Workplace Learning 311 Washington Street Brighton, MA 02135 phone: (617) 746-1260 Lloyd_david@creativeworkplacelearning.org