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High school teachers mostly impart knowledge. And high school tests are made to assess whether a student has in fact “learned knowledge” in various subjects.

Mostly, the GED does NOT test knowledge. The GED tests the ability to make meaning of various texts: Science, Social Studies, fictional & non-fictional literature, and math word problems. The GED tests Higher Order Thinking on Bloom’s Scale (SEARCH Bloom’s Taxonomy)

So GED teachers have to know the research-based methods for teaching adult literacy (decoding text), how to teach effective reading/learning strategies, how to devise practices for these strategies and how to diagnose whether students are improving in their use of these strategies (also figure out what to do if they aren’t!) (SEARCH “Strategies That Work” by Goodvis and Harvey.)

You’ll have to teach Math, too. Basic operations with Whole Numbers; Operations with Fractions, Decimals and Percents; Algebra and Geometry. <...See More


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