Adult Education

• Adult Education Course List

HCC is now the home of the Washington County Adult Education Program. The mission of the program is to provide adult learners (16 years of age or older) with basic life skills, including reading, writing, and mathematics to increase their literacy rates and/or prepare them for the labor market or further educational/vocational training.

Definitions of Adult Education Programs

Adult Basic Education (ABE): Key objectives include increasing basic academic skills; improving life skills, job readiness skills, job seeking skills, job retention skills, and parenting skills; and meeting personal goals such as being able to read the bus destination banner.

Adult Secondary Education (ASE): Key objectives include life skills, parenting, citizenship, preparation for the GED examination or the Maryland Adult External High School Diploma Program, employability skills, job readiness skills, job seeking skills, and job retention.

English as a Second Language (ESL): Key objectives include purposeful use of language, life skills, EL civics/citizenship, English language skills in speaking and writing, employability skills, job readiness skills, job seeking skills, and job retention skills.

Family Literacy (FL): Services are provided to families with at least one parent eligible for adult education services and at least one child aged birth through 16. Services include the following:
    1. Interactive literacy activities between parents and children.
    2. Training for parents regarding how to be the primary teachers for their children and full partnersin  
        the education of their children.
    3. Parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency.
    4. Age appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and life experiences.

Maryland Adult External High School Diploma Program (EDP)
is a competency-based, applied performance, high school diploma program for adults 18 years of age or older who have acquired academic and occupational skills through their life experience.

Official GED Practice Test
Key objectives include eight weeks reviewing high school level skills, which culminate in the Official GED Practice Test. Comparable to the actual GED exam, the Practice Test uses questions similar in content, difficulty, and format and is a good tool in deciding whether the student is adequately prepared to succeed on the actual GED Test or whether additional study/practice is recommended.

Must call 301-790-2800, ext. 313 to register and attend an orientation.