Instruction

Adult Education

Five-Year Strategic Plan
2012-2017

To strengthen and expand adult education programs, VDOE’s Office of Adult Education and Literacy (OAEL) has developed new program and funding goals.

By 2017, OAEL intends to raise the status of Virginia’s adult education programs nationally, while focusing on multiple adult literacy challenges and better serving adult learners.

Strategic Plan Summary Document:

Landscape Format Brochure (PDF)
Portrait Format Brochure (PDF)

Advancing Work Force Readiness: Adult Education and Literacy for 21st Century Virginia – A Strategic Plan for 2012-2017 (PDF)

Education and literacy are keys to a better quality of life – but over 1 million Virginia adults age 18 and older do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent, and many more lack literacy in key areas such as math or business skills.

To serve these populations, programs throughout the commonwealth offer everything from GED test preparation to tutoring in English language-based life skills.

The Office of Adult Education and Literacy revised its Assessment Policy, and has developed a new Goal-Setting Policy and Universal Student Intake Form, pursuant to federal audit findings. Both policies became effective September 1, 2007, and supersede any prior policies related to these activities. The policies and the intake forms were mailed to all funded programs. In addition to the intake forms, a help document that outlines how to use the form andincludes a data dictionary is also available.

Assessment Policy (PDF) Effective July 1, 2012
Goal-Setting Policy (PDF)
Distance Education Policy (PDF)
Universal Student Intake Forms

How VDOE helps

Adult Education

VDOE supports adult education in Virginia primarily by funding and supporting the programs at the local level. Each locality or region has an adult education program manager and instructional specialists. Additional program support is directed to rural areas of the state where additional resources and leadership are needed.

Community colleges and county and city school systems most often are the providers of these services.

Literacy

VDOE supports literacy in Virginia primarily by funding and supporting the programs at the local level.

Regional Literacy Coordinating Committees, or regional interagency groups, meet on a regular basis to discuss how to improve adult education and literacy services in the region through collaboration among businesses, local programs, and other agencies.

Services are delivered by local school boards, community colleges, community-based organizations, employers, state, local and regional correctional facilities, and state institutions.

Community-based literacy programs offer tutoring and other one-on-one or small group instructional approaches delivered primarily by volunteers.

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