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Virginia – May 25, 2022

Developing and Implementing GED^® Math Boot Camps

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Before We Get Started

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During the webinar, please:

Keep your sound and video muted. This will limit background noise.
Ask questions using the chat function.
Keep in mind that the session is being recorded for future viewing.

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Breakout Rooms

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In this session, we will

Identify the key elements of a content-based boot camp
Discuss the benefits of providing a boot camp
Review and discuss the steps in designing a boot camp
View possible structures of boot camps that can be implemented
Brainstorm ways that boot camps can be implemented in Virginia

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When you hear the words “Boot Camp” what words immediately come to mind?

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Reality Check

From January 1, 2019 - August 25, 2021 (National)

77,407 individuals did not earn a high school credential because they had passed only 3 of the 4 content areas
These individuals fell into four groups

Group 1 – demonstrated readiness, but hadn’t acted

25% earned a GED Ready score of 145 or higher in that subject

Group 2 – demonstrated that they were close to passing, but needed a little additional work

54% scored in the 135-144 range on either the GED Ready, GED test, or both in that subject

Group 3 – had yet to act on their final subject
Group 4 – needed moderate amount of work

5% had GED Ready or GED test score below 135

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Passed 3 of 4 Subjects: Data Summary

Subject left to pass:

82% Math
11% RLA
5% Social Studies
2% Science

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Passed 3 of 4 Subjects: Data Summary

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For those who have taken the GED Math test:

70% scored in the 140-144 range
24% scored in the 135-139 range
6% scored in the 100-134 range

For those who have taken a GED Ready Math test:

36% scored 145+
57% scored in the 135-144 range
7% scored below 135

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Step 1 – Look at the Big Picture

Designing

Days/Times
Curriculum
Programs and Resources to Use

Planning Process

Who Will Teach
What will You Teach
Audience
Pre-Post testing

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Boot Camps Come in All Shapes and Sizes

One-Day

3-4 sessions (1.25-1.5 hrs each)
High Impact focused content
GED Ready test

Three-Day

3- or 4-hour sessions daily
Deeper dive into content
GED Ready or GED test

Weekend

Friday p.m., full-day Saturday
Deeper dive into content
GED Ready or GED test

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Boot Camps Come in All Shapes and Sizes

One Week

Half-day sessions each day
Online practice sessions
Skill gap focused content
GED Ready or GED test

Hybrid

Established schedule
In-person and virtual instruction provided at/through multiple locations
Skill gap focused content based on initial GED Ready score report review
GED Ready or GED test

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One-Day Boot Camp – Sample Schedule

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Concurrent Sessions

Jefferson County Public Schools Adult Education Program

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One-Week – Sample Schedule

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Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

(15-minute break)

GED Ready test at 1:00 p.m.

Hopkinsville Community College

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Weekend Model

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Tri-County Skills U

Instruction Schedule:

Friday, 5-9, Saturday, 9-5

GED Exam: Sunday 1:00

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Friday 5-9	Absolute Value/Distance on a Number Line Show them how to look for absolute value bars, subtraction, and the numbers in the problem Order of Operations Undefined - 3 ways it might be on the test Typical values (mean, median, mode) Point out where to find mean and median on the Formula Sheet. It helps! Unit pricing - ***If there’s time to do it.
Saturday	Geometry Formulas Model use of the Formula Sheet. Have them tell you which formula(s) are needed and where to locate them. Solving and graphing Inequalities (and equations) Identify and evaluate functions Model how to substitute values by hand AND enter correctly in the calculator. Compare functions in different forms Calculator prohibited items (if time permits)
Sunday 1:00 p.m.	GED Math test

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Three-Day Hybrid Model

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Bluegrass Community and Technical College Adult Education Program

Tuesday – Thursday

5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Course Home Page

Bit.ly/3daymath

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Hybrid Detailed Schedule

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Statewide GED Math “Accelerator”(hybrid)

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Master Math Instructor

Primary Course Facilitator

Blackboard Collaborate

“Screencasting” into all locations

“Guide on the Side”

Local Instructor

“Guide on the Side”

Local Instructor

“Guide on the Side”

Local Instructor

Accelerator Schedule

Friday – 2-hour session

Introduce use of Blackboard
Calculator training
Test taking skills

Saturday – 6-hour session (including lunch/breaks)

Each instructional consists of

20 minutes direct instruction by Master Math Instructor
20 minutes of local instructor-facilitated skill practice
20 minutes of formative assessment

Pilot Session – May

By the numbers

50 registered

21 attended full course

4 GED earned to date

8 GEDs scheduled

2 GED Ready tests scheduled

Special incentive provided for any student who completes the entire weekend boot camp and obtains a GED before the end of the fiscal year.

$260 state park gift card for
2 nights/1 room/2 queen beds

Next session scheduled for June

Not at all. Feel free to use these examples. Thanks for checking. Here’s another idea. We’re in the middle of another project that offers a state level boot camp approach. We have a master math instructor, Trevor Applegate, who created a Blackboard course shell aligned to the GED Math HIIs. We use a weekend model and offer a special incentive, $260 state park gift card for equivalent of 2 nights/1 room/2 queen beds for any student in the state who completes the entire weekend boot camp and obtains a GED before the end of the fiscal year. We’re calling this pilot the Statewide GED Math Accelerator. The idea is that Trevor is the primary course facilitator, but local instructors provide “guide on the side” instruction to supplement. We have a Friday evening 2-hour session to allow students to get comfortable in the Blackboard environment and do calculator training/testing taking skills. Then, we go 10-4 on Saturday. With a total of 5 instructional hours on Sat. Each instructional hour has 20 minutes of direct instruction from Trevor, 20 minutes of local instructor-facilitated skill practice, and 20 minutes of formative assessment for each GED HII. We also provided meals for entire boot camp as another incentive and as a strategy to avoid attrition. Our results from cohort 1 so far: 50 registered for the cohort. 21 actually attended full course. 4 GEDs earned so far, 8 GEDs scheduled, 2 GED Ready tests scheduled. We also purchased TI-Smartview MathPrint Software subscriptions so that scientific calculator training could be done virtually and with high quality. Students and local instructors really responded favorably to this course component.

We’re doing another cohort in June to determine whether we get better results from students being in centers with “guide on the side” instructors or from students being allowed to join from home with a M-TH, 2 hours per evening approach. I’ll let you know the results once our final cohort concludes. Here’s the master schedule for the first cohort involving 3 local providers in 4 different physical locations/learning centers with 1 master instructor screencasting into all locations:

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Talk Time – 20 Minutes

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Open the Breakout Rooms and Links document in the Chat. Find your region and the corresponding breakout room. Click on the link to access the Google Doc.

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Step 3 – Identify Key Staff

Curriculum Development

Identifying existing curricula that may work
Customize
Team?

Instructional or Support Staff

Teacher(s)
TA(s)
Counselor
Coordinator?

Virtual Staff

Teacher(s)
Facilitator(s)

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Step 4 – What Will You Teach?

Look for Common Problems Your Students Demonstrate

Review GED^® Ready Score Reports
Review GED^® Score Reports

Review Trends in Knowledge and Skills Gaps in Mathematical Reasoning, Part 1 and 2 –TfT Webinar Archive Webinars - GED

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Trends in Knowledge and Skills Gaps

Session 1:

non-calculator items
exponents/roots
three-dimensional shapes

Session 2:

algebraic computation
inequalities
slope/graphing
multiple correct answers

NOTE: there is overlap between some of these areas

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Tuesdays for Teachers

November 16, 2021

3:30 – 5:00 p.m. (ET)

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. (PT)

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Essential Resources on GED.com

Computer Tutorial
Calculator Tutorial
Calculator Reference Sheet
Formula Sheet
Math Study Guide

https://ged.com/educators_admins/teaching/classroom_materials/

Calculator-Prohibited Indicators

https://ged.com/educators_admins/teaching/teaching_resources/

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Step 5 – Student Criteria

Students who

Are currently enrolled
Receive teacher recommendation
Recently left program

Students who

Have passed 3 of 4 tests
Scored 145-150 on GED Ready^®
Scored 140-145 on GED Ready^®

Students who

Are in and out of programs*
Need GED^® for work, but score slightly out of range on GED Ready^®
Upper range of NRS Level 4 on TABE
Lower range of NRS Level 5 on TABE

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Talk Time – 20 Minutes

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Return to your designated Breakout Room and continue working with your Google Doc.

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Step 6 – Market/Recruit

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Marketing/Recruitment Ideas

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Use the annotation tools to include your ideas!

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Motivating Students to Enroll/Attend

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Motivating Students to Enroll/Attend

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Logistics

Staff

Lead Instructor(s)

Facilitators

IT Support

Support staff

Snacks
Miscellaneous

Materials

Handouts

Agenda
Workbooks or Study Guides
FAQs (instructional program log-ins, how-to’s, etc.

Pencils, sharpeners, notepads, graph paper, etc.

Technology

Smart Boards

Document Cameras

Projectors

Laptops

Tablets

Instructional Programs

Aztec
GED Flash
IXL

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Evaluate

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Consider how you will track your students and Boot Camp outcomes

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Evaluate

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Enrollment Information	F2F	Virtual	Participation
Total Enrollment			74
No Shows			-24
Total Participants	42	8	50

Enrollment Information	Did Not Take Any Test After Academy	Completed Test After Academy	GED Math Ready - Did Not Pass	GED Math Ready - Passed	% of students who tested and Passed GED Ready Math
Has Not Tested To Date	18
Total Tested		32	10	22	69%


Enrollment Information	Did Not Take Any Test After Academy	Completed Test After Academy	GED Math - Did Not Pass	GED Math - Passed	% of students who tested and Passed GED Math
Has Not Tested To Date	3
Total Tested		19	4	15	79%

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Student Feedback (BCTC)

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Debrief – Activity 1

What?

What did we learn?

So What?

What is the significance of what we learned?

Now What?

What are we going to do or change going forward?

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Debrief – Activity 2

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Reflect something felt by the heart during the Boot Camp

Share something was cultivated during the day

Identify something was precious or valuable

Consider something will grow in the future

https://blog.trainerswarehouse.com/debrief-tools-for-processing-and-memory

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Talk Time – 20 Minutes

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Return to your designated Breakout Room and continue working with your Google Doc. Focus on Step 6 and 8.

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Design Steps of GED^® Math Boot Camp

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Step 1

Determine Your End Goal

Step 2

Set up the Structure

Step 3

Select Key Staff and Roles

Step 4

Adopt Curriculum

Step 5

Set Student Criteria

Step 6

Market /Recruit

Step 7

Implement

Step 8

Evaluate/Debrief

Step 9

Celebrate

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Celebrate

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Resources for You

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Planning Template for Local Programs (Google)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pb3ryE0v_dmrIGFt0vc0ncRXFeqd8SitZE3um5EDkkc/edit?usp=sharing

Planning Template for Local Programs (SharePoint)

https://elearningconnectionsinc.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/VirginiaGEDBootCampTeam/EZRd7FNx7wJKppqaTwcmgUsBnkTfZc_XowBXgMmPp4vIGA?e=g8sWwA

Google Drive Folder Access

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z3QCF9Ai1LgSlgyg_T27_ctPWTY61U01?usp=sharing �

Virginia GED Math Boot Camp - SharePoint

https://elearningconnectionsinc.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/VirginiaGEDBootCampTeam/Ekz8et002MBHup2XBjjZRQQB07ZvyW_D44Q4QSOdg0cEiQ?e=Cmvu3V

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Thank you!

Susan Pittman – skptvs@gmail.com

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