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Our program provides English and Spanish General Educational Development (GED) instructional services to agricultural and seasonal farmworkers.

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being recorded also at the conclusion of this session you will be directed to complete a brief survey to evaluate this session please provide honest feedback so that we can design future sessions and finally please be sure to mute yourself and place any questions in the chat box I will now turn the time over to our session presenter who will introduced herself hi good morning my name is Teresa. I am the student development specialist for the utrgv high school equivalency program so I oversee all recruitment as well as money on boarding process for all of our students we can go to the about us page just a little overview of our program we have been serving the Rio Grande Valley for a little over 50 years you actually came up 50 years last year are our area for quite a bit and we do service now not just Hidalgo County but Cameron County as well so good brownsville-harlingen any Aryan or any any people that area that recording DJ DB do help them as well because we are still operating in person online classes we as well are so we are a small staff or staff when we were six we have downgraded to 5 actually we still have our two instructors that are really great so one of them teaches us a place in science the other one teaches reading and math and then we do have an academic counselor or academic counselor does not credible job of helping with directions to post secondary placement and someone comes on board I'll meet with that my final evaluator goals by the what it is that we can do to help them and a lot of them are interested in either certification program utrgv for a bachelor's or nursing so we make sure that they have all of those tools to be able to continue wanting it for other post-secondary education we also help with the faster process I know that can sometimes be our students to get very frustrated because it'll never done FAFSA or this just kind of complicated for them so our counselor does help and walk them through that process we also have we have them apply for any scholarships they might qualify for and we just really try to get them as many options as possible once they get there feeling like what's next you know they don't just stop there a lot of you know coming to our program thinking like a post-secondary you know education I can go to college with a G and so I think it's really important to an hour and let them know that they you are able to continue on getting her Masters if they want them doctor if they want to get that even with a TV we are located go to the next line we are located in Edinburgh but like I said we do service Bell County camera and so we help students from Los Fresnos brownsville-harlingen in McAllen and Mission you know until further on but our home base is here in Edinburg at the utrgv campus the next slide listen to the basic criteria for what our program requires a basically it's a little different because our criteria is is that they have sent our cultural workers and I know that with Camp it can be like they worked a couple years ago and all this is have to be like within the last 12 to 24 months and it does have to be in 75 days so roughly about 3 months now it doesn't necessarily mean just mygrant work it can be local work here in the valley or if they worked in a warehouse with produce the fruits vegetables anything like that that will qualify we also have us instead of them Ranch work and so if they worked you know I need to coddle and things like that. so it's not necessarily just mygrant work I know that's can sometimes be confusing person to come on board because you're not sure if you qualify or not I would love to know that just call us and visited website of a question regarding whether your work will qualify or what they're not they're not aware of it doesn't necessarily have to leave out of state to be able to qualify for our have programs however it does have to be recent recent work we do serve students on the ages 16 in automatic days we've had students that are 65 trying to get ready to be able to continue working so we do require a court order if you're 16 years old 17 does not however we also require them to bring on there Prince Crab Trap in the transcript there we know there was wrong and all that just so we'll be able to see if there was any combination that our students need when they take their test but we do serve 16 year olds at and I. the next slide so we do offer not mean we do offer Opportunity Services that are our program is free so this is comes on board and does not have to pay for a calculator in the laptop and try to provide the laptops to date you know depending on on based off of mead we pay for the PT test in a lot of students come on board that you know this is one big test. taking a separate test in four separate us you have to pay for the weed eater do we do pay for those as well we have additional tutoring so we have a student work-study is University that will work with us and work with able to provide an extra tutoring so on top of Arc their class schedule at they want to stay a little later to be able to work on algebra or any other you know section that they feel like they need more help in we have that extra help for them that way they'll be able to finish rather quickly our turnaround time because of the tutoring and then all of the different you know of benefits be a part of our students I would say is about three months we try to graduate has been selectively quickly so I would say that in the space program we do not for example of a literacy program so we do not teach how to read or basic math we do want them to come on board with a kind of just a basic concept of not being on things like that so that way when they hear it's really I'm trying themselves pregnant or the GED test and so we have to finish quickly I last week we just had a student that was really ready to test and she finished it in a week she tested every single day and she started Monday we had students in the three months we have husbands that stay a little longer and that's because of Personality no issues they have had to stop and go to work their kids you don't need them a little bit more if they have to stop and I already of course and so it took a little bit longer we try to see them through that and we'd let them sorry but yeah so our program is not like a split cassette time frame program for it to go 6 months and then we send them over to test it really will depend on our students for their academic level of that were their motivations that are they ready to test now that'll be based off of our practice test so when we become what does mean we do their their application we do their assessments and all of that and we kind of see what their goals are what they want we do have them take a series of practice tests to see where they're at they do have to have ordered you have to meet minimum score Dorothy 135 because in order to pass the official GED test the student needs to have a 1:45 so we kind of have you know try to get that leeway just a little bit so that we can prepare them for the test but also to let the how do we know they have an understanding of like basic reading skills and things like that and it's really just gotta brush them up and prepare them to the test I think the next slide is just some photos that we have we do off scholarship we do offer stem Retreat as well and we do have chores to like that we've done pours I just different campuses around the valley so that we are students are also aware of the different program the other schools offer I'm not just what you charge of the Opera so we do do we need charity to wear for a corporation but we want them to know that they don't want to do it for years that you know degree and there are other options that we try to connect them with and school so that way they can continue on and you know so that is what our current schedule looks like unfortunately right now we don't we are working on that we are working on renewing our Granite for this upcoming year and so it out we're looking at having it ring you tune on August and so then we'll look at the schedule at that point but for adley only offer in person during the day and then our online schedule is is more for like a B on a need basis basically if it's a student at 10 because it's a little more difficult sometimes blocker that option to them but we do urge them to come in person because we've noticed that they graduate a lot quicker than right and being able to be in class and not have any other outside distractions did they finish a lot quicker so that's kind of it looks like we are working on getting after 5 but it will also be based off of that need as well if we get enough students that are interested in after 5 classes we will add it right now we have a lot coming in during the day so that's kind of where we're at on that we do offer Spanish classes so a lot of people don't know that you can take the TV in Spanish take you can take all four tests in Spanish you can even take them in English and Spanish so I had students at sale for some reason math and English but I want to take everything else in Spanish can I still get my GED yes they can't beat Hutchins graduate that way so that's also an option and they can still go to you know University or any other program with a g d so you know what so that's also something you know to know the next time please so we do have an end of your graduation and it's definitely one of my favorite parts of our program because a lot of you know because I didn't get that High School experience of graduating and so we do that to that we invite their family there in the cap and gown the walking stage we getting their certification it's a really really beautiful experience or just once a year at towards the end of our Academic Year so everybody graduated from August to about mayesh we will invite him to the graduation we have any lunch for them or dinner out of them and it's just a really nice way to greater accomplishments in and give him praise for all the hard work that is our flyer I do need to send and I will send it to you an updated fires you can share just so that way you know what time you have any updates we've had because you've updated recently within the last I need a couple weeks and we just finalized with marketing so I will send it over but that says phone number is still the same our contact information is still the same our program you know we offer hasn't really changed in the last couple years were still offering Spanish dearest allow Train English CD Services post-secondary you know placement Services as well maybe just are like schedule has changed a little bit as well as add that virtual courses well to serve any students that cannot make it in person but want to try the online we really try to work with him as much as we can especially students that are coming from Brownsville area Harlingen yeah. It's really hard to come everyday vehicles and things like that we do try to accommodate them as best we can weather is we're trying to find bus transportation in with route is the best way for them to go or will online version but yeah so that would be the Mistress of liar again in in English and that's our contact information so that number is on my office now please look for you to email me if you all have any questions or if you know of anybody who is looking for their gdwp know where to start even if they always even if I can find another program for them here locally I work so if they don't lost them my permission I will still help them out as best I can just so that way they can communicate their CD or at least get started on that route and that's pretty much about such a short video but we don't have to play that does anybody have any questions for me you do have a question in the chat it's asking do you need our email address or what's the best way to where do I get the email how did I do how do you share information with anybody who participated in the in the in in the conference in all of this information and materials LOL the MIP conference page any questions please unmute or you can type it into the chat doing that I will also want to apologize again for our technical difficulties of not being able to show this on a presentation mode and just getting set up as well thank you for your patience there and I don't see anything I'm in the chat just I'm thinking for sharing all of the information you have any questions or if you want any cavity separate agent that you all need or do you have anybody that needs you know once more information wants me to meet with them please feel free to share my email in my office number I'm willing to meet them in Brownsville I find a hargill I've gone to you know any thoughts so I'm leaving they're so they don't have to come down and work looks like we have a question to ask a man can you see the chat or do you want to read it to you yes. if you do at the end of this month which is pretty much for looking at 22 weeks lab I do recommend maybe she take the time to be home a little bit with her baby and and recover can come on board just because it can be a lot I have had a lot of pregnant moms come on board with us and the end up kind of not a big squid but the end up having to stop because you know it's a lot managing a newborn plus coming to school full-time I do recommend you take a little bit of time will be here regardless we have classes every single month so it's not like they're going to miss out if it didn't start right away in March so I would have them contact me maybe like we we can still start the on the process and that way when they're feeling up to it in there play some thank you thank you for sharing your information and we're going to the free GG Services folks do not forget once you exit out there will be a brief survey for you to evaluate this session and it looks like after this session we are moving into lunch and back into the next round of sessions at 1 p.m. so once again thank you and have a great afternoon thank you

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