Fitness For Dummies
Don’t Be A Crash Dummy for the GED
The government uses crash dummies to simulate humans involved in car or plane crashes. With cameras rolling and sensors spitting out data the crash tests are conducted and observed. The only requirement of a test dummy is to show up and take it!
This is the main reason for GED test failures. Students really are showing up to take the GED test. It appears for most to be the only way they can find out if they are ready or what’s on the test? Each state supposedly has GED preparation programs designed to get a GED student from where they are at to passing the test. They don’t market them well compared to their commercial competition. Simply Google GED and see the fraudulent companies’ ads. “Don’t waste your time with the GED. Get our high school diploma in 30 days!”
You can pay $30 to $600 dollars for a worthless diploma if your employer checks or great if he doesn’t. Today’s student has many options and paths to choose from regarding the GED. What we need is a heavily and widely advertised path titled the Official way of the GED.
What should be possible are training paths for passing the tests for the GED. Even crash dummies have standards! So GED students should be taught how to store and remember information. How to incorporate test strategies to answer more questions correctly. Study time is at a premium for working parents who are also GED students. GED subject content should be known and the class relevant to that information.
Students should have a test track just like crash dummies. This test track gets GED students:
- Enrolled
- Educated
- Prepared
- Tested
Organizations offering GED preparation should meet a standard of instruction and educational review. There are too many fly by night schools fleecing potential GED students of their money and dreams.
With the explosion of the Internet students, like crash dummies, can find out what faces them and get prepared. The days of one size fits all education are well past being used today. Today is the age of information. Knowledge is key and prized by employers as an asset in their employees. Employees are now called knowledge workers. Employees are expected to think for the benefit of the company and fellow workers. There are risks and rewards associated with being a thinking employee. Labor costs more than the equipment.
Education may be:
- Online Mentoring
- Self-directed study
- Classroom tutoring
- Distance Learning
- Test Strategies
- Mnemonic Memory Aids
All of which can get a student to his GED goal! This is the 21st century and the industrial revolution succeeded. A new worker, with a new future, using new tools must be crafted to work in the global economy being formed today!.
Let’s focus on how easily a worker can be trained instead of how hard we can make basic education available. We desperately need GED graduates in our economy. The numbers of high school graduates are not sufficient to power our country’s entrance into the global arena.
About the Author
Ronald E. Newton retired IBM Networking Consultant
25+ years developing online business networks, promoting and establishing online classes for the GED and SAT preparation.
Resides: Greensboro, NC
Education: BS CNE CCNA MCP
Website: www.newtonclass.com
You may contact me at my website.
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