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Coconut Creek offers many options for those wishing to continue their learning at a higher institution. The area is home to the Atlantic Technical College and Broward Community College. The community is dedicated to offering their residents the options and wants they are looking for in their academic life.

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Atlantic Technical College
Located on a beautifully landscaped, thirty-acre campus in Coconut Creek, Florida, Atlantic Technical Center is a public, secondary and post-secondary institution operating under the authority of the School Board of Broward County, Florida, and the Florida Department of Education.

Adult Basic Education (ABE)
The Adult Basic Education program is designed to develop literacy skills necessary for successful employment and citizenship. The content develops basic literacy in all areas of knowledge, including reading, language and mathematics. This course can prepare students to enroll in GED preparation courses or increase their skill levels for success in a technical program of study.

What are the prerequisites for the Adult Basic Education Program? All students must take the TABE placement test from which prescriptive lessons are written. In addition, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn, along with a good attendance record, are essential for ABE success.

What service will I receive from this Adult Basic Education Program? Students will receive quality instruction that will help them in gaining the skills necessary for successful employment and/or transition to GED Preparation.

When may I enroll in ABE? This program is open-entry/open-exit, which allows students to enter and exit the program when their individual needs have been met.

When is the Adult Basic Education Program offered? The classes are offered mornings, afternoons, and evenings, Monday through Friday, mornings and afternoons on Friday and mornings on Saturday.

General Education Development (GED)
This program helps to prepare students for academic and personal success through obtaining the skills necessary to pass the Official GED Tests by providing instruction in writing, reading, social studies, science, and mathematics. Successful completion of the examination enables students to earn a State of Florida High School Diploma. GED Curriculum is directed toward student mastery of the above areas. The program strives to motivate students to not only obtain a diploma, but also to utilize the acquired skills in the workforce and/or to achieve career and technical training.

What are the prerequisites for this GED program? All students must take the TABE placement test from which prescriptive lessons are written. In addition, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn, along with a good attendance record, are essential for GED Preparation success.

What service will I receive from this GED instruction? Students will receive quality instruction that will help them in gaining the skills necessary to pass the GED Test and be awarded a State of Florida high school diploma.

When may I enroll in GED? This program is open-entry/open-exit, which allows students to enter and exit the program when their individual needs have been met.

When is the program offered? The classes are offered mornings, afternoons, and evenings, Monday through Friday, mornings and afternoons on Friday and mornings on Saturday.

Vocational Preparatory Instruction (VPI)
Vocational Preparatory Instruction (VPI) is designed to provide instruction to students who need to upgrade basic skills in reading, language arts, mathematics, and other related instructional areas (for example, science and social studies), as appropriate. Also included are study and reference skills. Using results from the Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE), instructors prepare individual prescriptive lessons for the student whose scores do not meet the state-mandated basic skill exit level requirements for the training program which he/she has chosen. Meeting the TABE exit scores for each program is a requirement in order for the student to obtain a certificate from the training program, if the program length is 450 hours or more. The length of the class varies according to the student’s academic needs.

What are the prerequisites for this program? All students must take the TABE placement test from which prescriptive lessons are written. In addition, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn, along with a good attendance record, are essential for success in the VPI Lab.

What service will I receive from this instruction? Students will receive quality instruction that will help them to meet basic skill exit requirements for their technical program. Upon program completion, both academic and technical, they will be issued a certificate from their technical program.
When may I enroll in VPI? In most cases, academic skills instruction may occur prior to or concurrent with enrollment in the technical program. See a program counselor for details.

Broward Community College
As the oldest and largest provider of higher education in Broward County, for more than 45 years BC has offered nationally recognized degrees. We are your access point to a cutting-edge curriculum. Our students learn in small classes where they receive personal attention and are taught by distinguished faculty who are experts in their academic fields.

As an indication of our excellence, three out of four BC AA degree graduates continue their education, and when they do, they do as well or better than students who began at a four-year higher education institution. Our AS career-degree graduates are sought after by local employers because they are unusually well-prepared to enter the workplace. As a matter of fact, more than 90 percent of these graduates find work in a field related to their area of study or continue their education.