Learning Lab Classes

Learning Lab offers three different learning opportunities including:

Adult Basic Skills

While at Learning Lab, students will learn mathematics, reading, writing, spelling, GED preparation and workplace skills, all the basic skills an adult needs to thrive in his or her community.

Adult students use interactive computer curricula with supplemental one-on-one tutoring to improve their basic skills or English language usage. This instructional method allows us to develop an educational program tailored to each individual’s needs and abilities. Students develop a variety of immediately useful skills such as keyboarding and general computer operation, which are required in an ever-increasing number of workplace situations.

Students attend classes four or five hours per week for two or 2 1/2 hours each session. Classes are offered in the mornings, afternoons and evenings.

Students should expect to attend classes a minimum of six months in order to see measurable improvement.

Family Literacy

Learning Lab teaches parents and children together to break the intergenerational cycle of illiteracy and poverty.

The Learning Lab’s Preschoolers & Parents as Partners Family Literacy program incorporates the four components of family literacy recognized by the National Center for Family Literacy: adult basic skills, early childhood classes, Parent and Child Together (PACT) time and parenting skills. Parents and their children attend classes at the Lab twice a week for 2.5 hours each session. While parents are working on their basic skills, their children attend early childhood programs in a preschool or infant toddler classroom. A preschool program for three to five year olds emphasizing emergent literacy and school readiness, and a curriculum for birth to three year olds designed to enhance early brain development, form the core of our family literacy services. During each class, parents join their preschool children for intergenerational, education-based activities. Parents are taught how to incorporate educational experiences for their children at home, and the Family Literacy Coordinator provides individualized take-home projects for each family to complete.

Parenting skills instruction emphasizes topics such as child development, appropriate discipline, parenting stresses and how to provide a developmentally appropriate home environment while fostering reading, writing and math readiness skills.

English Language Learners

The issue of language is also addressed at Learning Lab. Learning Lab teachers are adept at helping non-English speaking adults and families as well.

English-language instruction is available to adults who are not native English speakers so that they may become self-sufficient, confident members of our community. Students learn conversation, vocabulary and pronunciation in addition to the basic skills instruction as offered in Adult Basic Skills.

Adult students use interactive computer curricula with supplemental one-on-one tutoring to improve their basic skills or English language usage. This instructional method allows us to develop an educational program tailored to each individual’s needs and abilities. Students develop a variety of immediately useful skills such as keyboarding and general computer operation, which are required in an ever-increasing number of workplace situations.

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