Adult Educational Development / GED
The Adult Education Development (AED)
Department serves students who do not have a high school diploma or
equivalency. Students can improve academic skills, English language
literacy skills, employment skills, and life-coping skills.
- General Information: 847.925.6223
- Appointments: 847.925.6015
- Nonnative Literacy: 847.925.6015 or 847.925.6017
- How to Register
- GED and Other Courses
- Services and Assistance
Services
Computer Assisted Instruction is
offered on campus, at the Northeast Center, at the Police Neighborhood
Resource Center (PNRC) and Northeast Palatine Community Center (NPCC).
Academic Assessment, Testing, Placement, and Registration
Academic assessment, diagnostic, achievement, and GED predictive testing services are provided to appropriate student groups.
Adult Basic and Secondary Student Advising
Basic
Skills, Pre-GED, and GED students are provided with opportunities for
goal setting, academic advising, career/vocational advising or
short-term personal advising.
Bilingual (Spanish) Student Needs
Nonnative
Literacy students are provided with opportunities for goal setting,
academic advising, career/vocational advising, short-term personal
advising, or advocacy (e.g., immigration, legal issues).
Student Transition
Students are assisted with transition to the Academic ESL program on campus, to degree credit programs, or other programs.
Assistance
GED Test Registration assistance
is given to GED students with the procedures necessary to register for
the GED Test battery and to acquire a high school equivalency
certificate.
Job and Career Development assistance is given
through America’s Job Bank to provide students with knowledge of
current job opportunities; students are referred Career Center as
appropriate. Materials are provided for (for in-class use)
Community Policing Collaboration - An outreach
program is maintained in collaboration with local police departments to
offer programs and services in the community in proximity to
concentrated populations of disadvantaged adults in Rolling Meadows and
Palatine; this is done in an effort to promote student acculturation
and reduce crime.
GED Graduate Scholarship Program assists GED
Graduate students with tuition costs for degree credit classes as funds
permit in cooperation with the Development Office and Financial Aid
Office.
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How to Register for Basic Skills, Pre-GED, and GED Classes
It
is necessary to make an appointment for an assessment test. Tests are
given on Monday and Tuesday at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the main campus.
Call 847.925.6223 for information.
If you wish to attend classes
at Harper College Northeast Center, 1375 South Wolf Road in Prospect
Heights, test times are available there on Wednesday at 11 a.m. and 6
p.m.
To make an appointment, please call 847.925.6015.
How to Register for Nonnative Literacy
Please call 847.925.6015 or 847.925.6017.
Courses
Basic Skills courses
are offered free of charge to students whose reading, English or
mathematics skills range from beginning literacy to a sixth grade
equivalent.
Pre-GED courses are offered free of charge to
students whose reading, English, or mathematics skills range from
intermediate literacy to a ninth grade equivalent.
General Education Development (GED)
courses are offered for a low fee to students who are preparing for the
GED Test battery (language arts writing, social studies, science,
language arts: reading, mathematics, and constitution). Specialized
sections of GED Preparation are also available as online courses.
Nonnative Literacy (ESL)
courses assist nonnative speakers of English who have less than nine
years of formal education in their country of origin to acquire English
language literacy skills.
Employment Skills courses assist students to acquire knowledge and skills related to the American workplace.
Citizenship Training courses
assist students to acquire knowledge of American history and culture;
basic structure, functions, and purposes of U.S. government; and
procedures to apply for and pass
