How We Teach

The basis of our curricula is “Contextualized Learning.”

In all our programs, instructors and tutors emphasize the competencies learners need for working with their children or for their employers. Those include:

Basic Educational Skills in reading, math and English as a Second Language

Basic Workplace Knowledge

Basic Workplace Skills

Basic Employability Skills, and/or Lifelong Learning Skills.

To accomplish these goals, instructors show how each lesson relates to skills they need to find and keep a job or to help their children. For workplace education, we focus on five occupational priorities Mercer County needs:

Health Professions
Transportation
Skilled Trades
Manufacturing
Business

This instruction not only prepares the prospective employee. It helps employers:

Upgrade their workforce
Improve their productivity
Advance their capacity to compete in a global market.