Reach 1 Program Helps Employees Earn GEDs
The Reach 1 program allows employees and their family members to attend basic classes to improve reading, writing, and math skills as well as work toward a GED (equivalency diploma). Instruction is individualized and self-paced. Classes are offered twice a week for 10-week periods. Participants may enroll at any time.
GED
Dan McDade (right), a maintenance technician in Student Life, attended Reach 1 to prepare for the GED and passed the exam in September 2008. He is now enrolled in English 193 through the Bridge Program in Continuing Education.
“Going through the Reach 1 program and getting my GED was important to me because I wanted to be a role model for my four kids. I wanted to show them that anything is possible if you don’t give up,” said McDade. “Now I’m taking an English class through the Bridge program and preparing myself for college. This is all possible because of the support of my family, department, and supervisor.”
To learn more, visit the Continuing Education web site.
Shop Math Class
Reach 1 also offers the Shop Math class during the summer quarter for Ohio State employees who want to enroll in the Apprenticeship Program and brush up on their math skills before taking the Apprenticeship Exam. This six-week course reviews fractions, decimals, percents, square root, scientific notation, algebraic order of operations, signed numbers, the Pythagorean Theorem, and geometric measurement. For more information, contact Jed Dertinger
at dertinger.1@osu.edu or (614) 688-3289.
Watch future issues of Resources for more Reach 1 program success stories. For details about the program, contact Barbara Wookey at (614) 292-1238 or bwookey@hr.osu.edu, or visit the Reach 1 web site.