Do you wish you could clone yourself? We can’t help you there, but if you have DVDs and access to the internet, you already have help at your fingertips. Tonya Crum, director of workforce development at KET, trains a lot of adult ed teachers and offers several suggestions.

While you have one student starting her intake papers and another taking the TABE in the next classroom, you could:

• put a learner on a computer with a headset to watch the GED Connection segment on ratio, proportion and percent, and give him the workbook to do the follow-up exercise
• have a returning student take the free GED® practice test on the LiteracyLink website at pbs.org/literacy to see which skills and content areas she needs to strengthen (since NRS guidelines say not to reassess until students have had sufficient hours of instruction)
• give two or three students The GED Essay DVD and have them practice brainstorming ideas
• stop periodically and check on the learners using the computers and DVD players to be sure they understand what they’re watching. If not, remind them they can go back and watch the segment as often as necessary to be sure they get it.

Crum reminds us that video reaches the broadest spectrum of learning styles and learning differences, which makes it a big help in a multi-level classroom.

You still can’t be in two places at once—but it might start feeling that way.