Spring started out with guessing whether the groundhog would see his shadow or not. We encouraged the children to vote on whether or not we were going to have six more weeks of winter and created a graph to display our data! Those who said we were going to have an...
The Private Industry Council of Westmoreland / Fayette Inc. (PIC) is celebrating 40 years of offering youth programs in Westmoreland/Fayette counties. To celebrate this milestone, PIC is welcoming all youth to their Youth Open House events to learn more about all PIC...
For the past two years, Head Start / Early Head Start have been participating in a Local March for Babies fundraising walk. Each year our donations to the March of Dimes have grown. This year, as in the past two years, we will meet at Hutchinson Park on Saturday,...
Early Head Start Childcare Partnership (EHS-CCP) is a center-based program for infants and toddlers. EHS CCP partners with eligible daycares to create EHS CCP infant /toddlers’ rooms within the daycare. But how is this different from the current head start and Pre k...
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Head Start / Early Head Start FAQs The Private Industry Council discusses frequently asked questions for Head Start and Early Head Start students. Private Industry Council operates the Head Start / Early Head Start program for Beaver and Fayette Counties in the...
The one true maxim in education is that the profession is always changing. With change come challenges but also the opportunity for great accomplishment. As K-12 educators prepare for the implementation of the Common Core Standards, Adult Education is being introduced to a portion of the standards that the Federal Department of Education thinks are most beneficial to Adult Education learners. This set of standards is known as the College and Career Readiness Standards, or CCRS. The CCRS is going to have a great amount of influence on all Adult Education programs across the nation.
These standards will focus on the skills and content that employers and post-secondary institutions have identified as critical to a person’s future success. As Adult Education providers, PIC will be held accountable by the state to make sure that these new standards are being implemented throughout our classes. The skills that have been identified as the greatest need for adult education are: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language, and Mathematics (Numbers and Operations, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Geometry, and Measurement and Data). These sets of standards are going to bring a level of content consistency to all of our classrooms, plus provide rigor that will translate into better results for all of our adult learners. Our program is excited to begin the process of “unpacking” these standards and creating fun, informative, and challenging classroom activities to coincide with these standards.
The changes that are coming to Adult Education will allow us as instructors and administrators the chance to have ownership over what we teach and how we choose to teach content in our classrooms. Benefits will include:
We look forward to what this process will mean to our profession, but most importantly our students.
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