We see the learner as a resource. Our curriculum draws on the knowledge, skills and experiences that the learner already has. Instructors encourage learners to think about how they are learning as well as what they are learning. Each unit accommodates different achievement levels. Each learner adapts the unit to his or her individual learning plan.
Learners also develop their own study topics.
In HALE, learners have lots of opportunity to learn through experience. They interact with the community on an ongoing basis in the classroom and in the workplace through the Community As Teacher Program, which trains local business - and tradespeople as peer educators. The teacher-learner connection is important, but we also recognize how important computers are for independent learning. We are now teaching adult learners how to use the internet. The Net pilot project was successful and learners tell us we are on the right track.