Karen Craven, the lead trainer and website supervisor for Grownup Training in Floyd County, was named Georgia Northwestern Technical School’s (GNTC) Grownup Training Instructor of the Yr for 2023.
Craven stated her method of schooling depends on empowering college students with the talents and confidence to unravel issues for themselves, relatively than giving them solutions. This instructing method has helped her to facilitate class discussions and challenges college students to develop the educational processes and psychological expertise that helps them to plan, monitor and obtain their targets.
“Discovering completely different strategies of presenting content material—mixed with the mindset that there isn’t any pupil who’s incapable of studying—permits each pupil to excel at their very own tempo,” Craven stated. “It makes a world of distinction for a person pupil.”
Craven might be acknowledged as GNTC’s Instructor of the Yr on the 2023 Dinah Culbreath Wayne Distinctive Grownup Georgian in Literacy Training (EAGLE) Management Institute on March 1-2, 2023, in Atlanta. One teacher from Georgia’s 22 technical faculties might be chosen because the Technical School System of Georgia’s (TCSG) Workplace of Grownup Training Excellent Instructor of the Yr throughout a particular recognition dinner; the date of the dinner might be introduced later.
“Karen is the kind of teacher that each Grownup Training program wants in their group,” Lisa Shaw, VP of Grownup Training at GNTC, stated. “She works exhausting to make sure she supplies high-quality instruction that meets the personal wants of every pupil. Instructing is her ardor and each pupil issues to Karen.”
Craven started instructing Grownup Training in its place trainer 16 years in the past after which moved right into a full-time place 11 years later. She stated she considers her best accomplishment in schooling to be homeschooling all six of her youngsters.
“It was apparent to me from the primary day that Grownup Training was very very like homeschooling,” Craven defined. “There have been college students of various ages learning completely different topics with completely different studying wants collectively at the similar time in the identical room.”
The Grownup Training program provides instruction in Grownup Studying Facilities all through its nine-county service space. Tutorial areas embody preparation for the Georgia Excessive College Equivalency (the GED® check or the HiSET® examination), Grownup Secondary Training, Grownup Primary Training, and English as a Second Language. Facilities have fashionable pc labs, research supplies, assets {and professional} employees for each day and night package. Distance Studying choices are additionally accessible.
Lessons function year-round and are provided gratis. GNTC is an official GED® Testing Heart and a website for computer-based GED® Testing in partnership with Pearson VUE, GED® Testing Companies, and the Technical School System of Georgia. For extra data, contact GNTC’s Workplace of Grownup Training at 706-295-6976.
Based in 1962, Georgia Northwestern Technical School is celebrating 60 years of offering high-quality workforce schooling to the residents of northwest Georgia. College students have the chance to earn an affiliate diploma, diploma, or certificate in aviation, enterprise, well-being, industrial, or public service profession paths. This previous yr, 11,134 folks benefited from GNTC’s credit score and noncredit packages. GNTC has an annual credit score enrollment of 8,528 college students and a further enrollment of two,606 folks by way of grownup schooling, persevering with schooling, enterprise, and business coaching, and Georgia Fast Begin. For extra details about GNTC, go to us at www.GNTC.edu. GNTC is a unit of the Technical School System of Georgia and an Equal Alternative Establishment.
