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State of Florida Official GED Website
This site provides resources for GED teachers, Administrators and Examiners.

GED 2002-Online Professional Development
GED 2002 Online provides you with information on the GED 2002 Series Tests, as well as strategies that you can implement in your classroom.

Pathways to Passing the GED
GED 2002 brings a new approach to this test, emphasizing higher order thinking skills, problem solving and application more strongly than in the past. To meet this challenge, we present our vision of GED as Project.

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General Education Development
This is the first continuing adult education website dedicated to help the students prepare online for the GED high school equivalency diploma test.

Gedpractice.com
This website was created to familiarize the students with the types of items they will see on the actual GED test.

GED Quick Guide for the Classroom
The National Institute for Literacy’s LINCS project presents this GED Quick Guide to the Classroom.

TechNet Living Library
This site is full of lesson plans for the GED and the Pre-GED.

Articles

GED Math Instruction: Meeting the Challenge
Myrna Manly
Suggestions for GED mathematics instruction are included in this article.

Economic Benefits of the GED: A Research Synthesis
John Tyler
Research and key findings to study whether the GED provides economic benefits to high school dropouts are presented in this article.

Taking the GED Tests: Accommodating Accommodations
Neil Sturomski
This article, written by Neil Sturomski, educational consultant to the General Educational Testing Service (GEDTS) explains the use of Form L-15 which is used to receive accommodations for people with documented learning disabilities.

Resources

GED 2002 Making New Connections
This resource explains the importance, history, overview, knowledge & skills, question formats, passing the GED, and overviews of all parts of the GED.

GED Calculator Lessons
The 2000 Development Fund award went to Jeri Braunagel who designed lessons and practice exercises for teaching use of the Casio fx-260 calculator. These lessons are provided on this site.

Beyond the GED: Making Conscious Choices About the GED and Your Future
Published by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, this resource offers lesson plans and materials for the GED classroom.

Web-Based Training for GED Administrators
This web-based training program has been designed to provide the GED administrator with some tools and techniques to address the challenges ahead.

Florida Works
Florida Works is a new kind of career building curriculum designed to help adult basic education students to gain the skills and confidence they need to get a job and succeed.

Obtaining your GED with English as Your Second Language
This site addresses the unique challenge educators face in the field when instructing students with English as their second language.

The Florida GED Teacher’s Handbook
This handbook was produced by the Florida GED 2002 Project.

4Tests.com
This site has a practice test for the GED that allows the student to choose which areas to test on.

GED Facts
GED Facts are provided by the Center for Adult Learning and Educational Credentials.

 

 

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