Question B-4. Please describe your staff members’ training and experience with providing student advising. Lee Obermiller served as a mentor, teacher and administrator in the K-12 system for over 40 providing student advising students including as-risk students. He has provided GED classroom advising to students for the previous five years. His expertise lies in being able to relate to students and develop an excellent rapport with them. His back ground in Industrial Technology provides a solid understanding of the requirements/knowledge/skills needed to succeed in a wide variety of occupational clusters and will thus help in his ability to discern whether or not individual students possess or need to develop the knowledge to gain competency in the required domains. The other staff members, while not delivering the initial advising piece, all advise students (ABE, K-12 and college students) on a regular basis in the ABE and ALC classrooms and other school settings. Section C: Adult Diploma Pilot Proposed Programming Proposed Adult Diploma Pilot Cass Lake-Bena and Programming Site(s) Potential Number of Students Participating 12+ (conservatively) Pilot (January June 2015)? – Which completion options do you plan on (Please complete checklist of all approved having available to your students during completion options.) the pilot period? Potential Multi-Domain State Adult Diploma Completion Options Potential Completion Option Do you plan to make it available locally? National External Diploma Program (NEDP) + Yes This option will not be available during the beginning of the period. Approved and aligned transcripts from foreign Yes secondary schools + Potential Language Arts Completion Options Potential Completion Option Do you plan to make it available locally? K-12 Language Arts Credit Verification Yes Aligned Postsecondary Course Completion Yes Accuplacer Test Verification (78+) Yes and COMPASS GED (2002 Version) 450+ on Reading and Yes Writing tests + writing sample GED (2014 Version) score 158+ on RLA and Yes Social Studies/Science tests + writing sample; GED Ready if proctored Passing scores on BST or MCA tests Yes TOEFL N/A ACT Score 18+ on Writing and 21+ on Yes Reading tests ABE group instruction Yes ABE individual instruction Yes ABE distance learning Yes
Question B-4. Please describe your staff members’ training and experience with providing student advising. Lee Obermiller served as a mentor, teacher and administrator in the K-12 system for over 40 providing student advising students including as-risk students. He has provided GED classroom advising to students for the previous five years. His expertise lies in being able to relate to students and develop an excellent rapport with them. His back ground in Industrial Technology provides a solid understanding of the requirements/knowledge/skills needed to succeed in a wide variety of occupational clusters and will thus help in his ability to discern whether or not individual students possess or need to develop the knowledge to gain competency in the required domains. The other staff members, while not delivering the initial advising piece, all advise students (ABE, K-12 and college students) on a regular basis in the ABE and ALC classrooms and other school settings. Section C: Adult Diploma Pilot Proposed Programming Proposed Adult Diploma Pilot Programming Site(s) Cass Lake-Bena and Potential Number of Students Participating Pilot (January – June 2015)? 12+ (conservatively) Which completion options do you plan on having available to your students during the pilot period? (Please complete checklist of all approved completion options.) Potential Multi-Domain State Adult Diploma Completion Options Potential Completion Option Do you plan to make it available locally? National External Diploma Program (NEDP) + This option will not be available during the beginning of the period. Yes Approved and aligned transcripts from foreign secondary schools + Yes Potential Language Arts Completion Options Potential Completion Option Do you plan to make it available locally? K-12 Language Arts Credit Verification Yes Aligned Postsecondary Course Completion Yes Accuplacer Test Verification (78+) Yes and COMPASS GED (2002 Version) 450+ on Reading and Writing tests + writing sample Yes GED (2014 Version) score 158+ on RLA and Social Studies/Science tests + writing sample; GED Ready if proctored Yes Passing scores on BST or MCA tests Yes TOEFL N/A ACT Score 18+ on Writing and 21+ on Reading tests Yes ABE group instruction Yes ABE individual instruction Yes ABE distance learning Yes