The Adaptive Blended Learning Education (ABLE) Institute is proud to offer its Employability Proficiency Certificate Program to the YES community. Studies have shown that the entry level workforce population is increasingly entering entry-level positions without the skills it needs to succeed on the job.

As the nation’s positions turn more white-collar, employers are expecting entry level employees to show knowledge of how to:

• Operate basic office computer programs
• Read into and understand economic trends, sales figures, and business charts
• And to communicate easily with their co-workers

Without employees with reliable basic skills, companies are losing money due to lost productivity and training from internal and external sources. The ABLE Institute’s Employability program addresses these problems by teaching individuals core job skills in an online format that adapts to their learning style for better results and improved proficiency. The end result is an employee base with expertise in all core business skills and a desire to improve. Students who complete the program receive a certificate of readiness from ABLE.

The 9 course program includes the following:

English Proficiency: Back to top

English as a Second Language (ESL) Builder courses are designed to improve reading, writing, speaking, and business vocabulary using an advanced online model. The English Proficiency Program includes three courses:

1. Introductory English- Level I
   In this course, students learn the basic language skills required to perform daily tasks as well as how to generate proper sounds and use correct punctuation. Topics include nouns, adjectives and pronouns; simple past, future, and present tenses; prepositions, and imperatives.
2. Intermediate Level Builder- Level II
   In this course, students expand upon their knowledge of sentence structure and learn to formulate phrases in varying tenses. Topics include the uses of time, expressions, and gerunds and infinitives.
3. Proficiency Developer- Level III
   In this course, students increase their familiarity with complex sentence forms such as conditional sentences and models, as well as language skills that allow for proficiency at a beginner-intermediate level.

Math Proficiency: Back to top

Using adaptive learning technology and powerful intelligent software from IDL Systems Math Builder courses from ABLE are designed to challenge and engage while incorporating a cyclical learning model that ensures that students have learned what they needed to learn before moving any further. The Math Proficiency Program includes the following courses:

1. Basic Mathematics
   This course is designed to provide students with the fundamentals of college mathematics and problem solving. Topics include fractions, decimals, statistics, geometry, and basic algebra. 
2. Introductory Algebra
   This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of Algebra. Topics include linear equations, polynomials, factoring, and rational expressions.
3. Intermediate Algebra
   The main focus of this course is to teach students how to solve complex Algebraic equations and problems. Topics include graphing, exponents and radicals, and quadratic equations.

Computer Proficiency: Back to top

ABLE’s IC3 Computer Proficiency Builder program provides the core skills and knowledge necessary to use computer applications and the Internet. The learners are given three different learning strategies to choose from, step-by-step, case study, and active learning strategy. Each core concept is provided with a diagnostic test to help student their own knowledge and to provide immediate intelligent feedback on how they can improve their learning performance. Feedback is given in the form of short revision courses customized to match the students’ best individual learning strategy.

IC3 Computer Proficiency Builder Program includes the following courses:

1. Computing Fundamentals
   This module covers all topics related to computer hardware, software and operating systems basics.  The training program gives highly interactive and adaptive information on each topic with practice exams.
2. Key Applications
   The online training module includes common program functions, word processing functions and spreadsheet functions.  The interactive online program prepares students for MS Word and MS Excel application programs.
3. Living Online
   This learning module covers network and Internet basics, electronic mail, using Internet and WWW, and impact of computing and the Internet on society.  The adaptive learning module prepares learners for the IC3 exams with learning style of their own preference.

ABLE offers a special pricing package for all non-profit programs. The suggested retail price for the employability course is $1000; however, ABLE offers the complete 9-course certificate program to non-profit organizations at half-price.

Certificate Program- Retail: $1000
Special Non-Profit offer: full program (9 courses) : $500

Per course (non-certificate): $65

To register for the Employability Certificate Program please contact Brian Finkenstadt by email at brian@ABLEinstitute.org or by phone at (617) 236-5700 x417.

For more information, please fill out the inquiry form located here.