The Charboneau Learning Center
A
Program of The Literacy Project
15 Bank
Row, Suite D
Greenfield,
MA 01302
413-774-3935
www.literacyproject.org/charboneau.html
October
2005
Successes/Highlights
GED
Graduation
Over
35 graduates participated. They had earned their GED's over the past 3
years. At least a dozen of these were
former Charboneau Students. Even Start and North Quabbin graduates were
also well represented. The Career
Center GED class also had its share of
graduates.
This event was planned and run by
the Greenfield Family Literacy Collaborative, which is the entity that runs
Even
Start. GCC is one of the members of this collaborative, and President
Robert Pura was the evening's host and a
speaker. The GED Commissioner
from DOE, Tom Mecham, delivered
the Commencement Address and handed
out diplomas.
GCC
Orientation
Jean
Boucias from the testing office and Sarah Scarchilli-Janus from the admissions office made a
presentation to
the afternoon GED for Success Class. A few students from the Morning Class and the Evening Class also
attended.
and . . .
Achievements by
Learners
1 learner Advanced-in-job/Got better job
8 learners Completed Essay/Significant writing project
5 learners Enlisted Supportive/Safety Services
1 learner Got a drivers license
4 learners Got a job
1 learner Got a library card
1 learner Interviewed for job
1 learner Obtained Stable Housing
1 learner Opened a checking/savings account
5 learners Read a book
1 learner Resume Completed
Class
Activities
Louise's Morning ABE class did a unit contrasting and comparing
vertebrates and
invertebrates in Biology. They
also worked through a unit on the Civil War.
Reading, current
events, and Math (decimals and fractions) are ongoing. There were also some language
activities comparing and contrasting phrases and sentences.
In Joe's morning class, students continued to respond well to the
clarification, development,
and ultimate planned institution
of an expectation that students complete at least one
"finished" writing project per month. They also worked with a framework for
understanding
and remembering facts about the Civil War: "Events Before",
"Events During", "Events
Afterward" and "Important People". Lots of GED reading and "item
analysis" went into an
ongoing unit on Scientific classification
systems as we worked with the Linnaean Classification
System of Living Things, a
system that many scientists think should be obsolete because it
does not adequately reflect understandings built upon the theory of
evolution.
The new afternoon "G.E.D. for Success" class (non rates based)
still had only two students.
These two young men took every advantage the special freedoms and
opportunities of such a
small group. They both pushed
their "writing muscles" with serious and concentrated
attention to drafting, structure, and revisions. They also developed an
online lesson system
for learning measurements which includes both drill and multi (MULTI!)
step word problems
they developed. One of them went so far as to develop an interactive
glossary to explain the
"nutritional" terms used in a word problem involving an evil
witch's REVOLTING recipe to be
divided equally between 50 unfortunate children.
Like the morning classes, the Evening GED class is operating at near
full enrollment with
reasonably good attendance rates.
This class is the most diverse in terms of abilities and
interests with two regular attendees devoting the majority of their
class time to college course
work assigned by their
professors at GCC. Students without the
college pressures are
responding well to our own developing writing expectations. And, like the rest of the GED
level classes, they have given us positive feedback on the Mesopotamia
activities which are
primarily presented (on an individual basis) as either language
development activities or as
introductions to the Moodle online course system.
Additional
Information:
14
days of classes Class
Contact Hours: 664.50 47.4 hours per day (about 20 learners
in classes per day)
Inquiries and
Others Served: 20
Total Enrollment: 39
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ATTENDANCE |
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12+ hours |
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23 |
59% |
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2-11 hours |
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11 |
28% |
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<2 hours |
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5 |
13% |
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39 |
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ETHNICITY |
Intakes |
Enrolled |
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REFERRALS |
Intakes |
Enrolled |
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AmerInd/Alaskan |
1 |
0 |
0% |
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Career Center |
1 |
5 |
13% |
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Asian |
0 |
1 |
3% |
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Community College |
1 |
3 |
8% |
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Black |
0 |
2 |
5% |
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Employer |
0 |
1 |
3% |
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Cape Verdean |
0 |
0 |
0% |
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Flyers/Publicity |
0 |
2 |
5% |
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Haitian |
0 |
0 |
0% |
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Library |
0 |
2 |
5% |
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Hawaiian/PI |
0 |
0 |
0% |
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Court/Probation |
0 |
3 |
8% |
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Hispanic |
0 |
3 |
8% |
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Public School |
0 |
1 |
3% |
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IndianSub |
0 |
0 |
0% |
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Social Agency/Gov't Org |
2 |
10 |
26% |
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White |
5 |
33 |
85% |
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Word of Mouth |
2 |
10 |
26% |
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Other/Not Given |
0 |
0 |
0% |
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Other |
0 |
2 |
5% |
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6 |
39 |
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6 |
39 |
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