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We have compiled plenty of resources, activities, and techniques for tutoring adults with low literacy. We hope you find something helpful here! If you have any questions or need any support while you’re here, please reach out to Keighty keighty@litworks.org

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This research digest gives a brief review on why morphological knowledge is important to adult education learners, describes the literature on adult morphological and etymological instruction, provides examples for how to integrate them, and looks at future directions and resources for research and practice.

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Courses & Professional Learning. Improve your skills. Inspire your students.

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Proliteracy: Basic Literacy Tutor Training

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Tutor Training for Basic Literacy - ProLiteracy

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This is ProLiteracy’s Basic Literacy Tutor Training Online Workshop, which includes 12 modules to get you started.

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LINCS | Adult Education and Literacy | U.S. Department of Education

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The Teaching the Skills That Matter in Adult Education project (TSTM) trains teachers to integrate the skills that matter to adult students using approaches that work across critical topics. Using the project's tools and training, adult education teachers can teach the transferable skills students need in these critical contexts.

The 9 skills that matter are:

Adaptability & willingness to learn

Communication

Critical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Navigating systems

Problem solving

Processing & analyzing information

Respecting differences & diversity

Self-awareness

The 5 topic areas are:

Civics education

Digital literacy

Financial literacy

Health literacy

Workforce preparation

The 3 approaches that work are:

Integrated & contextualized learning

Problem-based learning

Project-based learning

The following resources can help you to integrate these skills into your classroom.

Teaching the Skills That Matter Toolkit

The TSTM Toolkit was developed by adult education experts to support teachers in using approaches that work to help students gain the skills that matter. The toolkit has seven sections:

The Overview section introduces the key toolkit components;

Five topic-based sections each including an issue brief, a case study, lesson plans, and an annotated bibliography; and

The Other Tools and Resources section, which has additional tools and resources to support the integration of the skills into your instruction.

What Past Participants Have Said

TSTM Benefits

Implement research and evidence-based units/lessons that support standards-based instruction and the skills that matter for students

Collaborate and become part of a learning community with adult educators from other states focused on improving instruction

Developed units and lesson plans based on effective elements of instruction

Receive individualized coaching from national content experts

Collaborate with other state professional developers and project experts

Build on current instructional skills that matter for ABE and ELA students

TSTM States Map

Over 30 states have been TSTM trained. To find out what is happening in your state with TSTM implementation, please contact your state PD leader.

Background and Contact Information

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA, Pub. L. 113-128, July 2014), the first major reform in the publicly funded workforce system since 1998, increases access to employment, education, training, and support services for individuals, particularly those with barriers to employment. Title II of WIOA, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), presents an extraordinary opportunity to improve the quality of life for individuals with low skills. WIOA Section 203 encourages programs to provide instruction tied to "activities, programs or services designed to help an individual acquire a combination of basic academic skills, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skills and self-management skills, including competencies in utilizing resources, using information, working with others, understanding systems and obtaining skills necessary for successful transition into and completion of postsecondary education or training, or employment." (WIOA, Pub. L. 113-128, Section 203, July 2014).

Based upon public comments received during the WIOA rule-making process, technical assistance conversations with states, and ongoing community of practice conversations in LINCS, it is clear to OCTAE that adult education teachers need support and training in how to meaningfully integrate these skills (i.e., the skills that matter) into regular adult education classroom instruction.

Teaching Skills That Matter in Adult Education is being conducted by the American Institutes for Research, under contract to the U.S. Department of Education. For more information, please email tstm@air.org.

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The Reading League has compiled a list of options, not recommendations, of frequently requested decodable texts.

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New American Horizons: Adult ESL Teacher Training Videos - Low Literacy

This collection of 12 teacher training videos were filmed in adult ESL classes and feature a variety of teaching strategies and activities. For teachers interested in learning more about working with low-literacy learners, there are three videos that address this level.

Lesson Planning for Life Skills: Betsy Lindeman Wong of Alexandria, Virginia, guides beginning level learners through highly structured to open-ended activities showing the progression of a life-skills lesson in talking on the telephone.

Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Readers: Andrea Echelberger of Saint Paul, Minnesota, works with a Whole-Part-Whole approach to teaching literacy, using a learner-generated story of a shared experience and demonstrating activities to develop beginning literacy skills.

Growing Vocabulary with Beginning Learners: Karli Boothe of Arlington, Virginia, demonstrates a contextualized approach to introducing and reinforcing vocabulary within a lesson. She uses a variety of vocabulary development strategies and activities to promote learners' interaction and active engagement as they master words and concepts.

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New American Horizons: Adult ESL Teacher Training Videos – Low Literacy

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If you have questions or need assistance, please contact: Tina Hite, Propel Director, Call or Text: 505-916-1252, Email or Google Chat: tina@nmdelt.org

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About This Course

There are 13 modules in this course. Each module includes an online course and an exam. You can take the modules in any order, but we recommend taking them in the order they are presented. After completing each online course, you will be able to take an exam. If you pass the exam (80% or higher), you will be able to print a certificate. If you do not need a certificate, you do not have to take the exam. You can use this certificate to verify you completed the module. If you complete all 13 modules, you can complete a one-question final exam and print a certificate of completion for the entire workshop.

This course is free with a ProLiteracy Individual or Organizational Membership. If you are interested in learning more and becoming a member, click here.
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This is ProLiteracy's ESL Tutor Training Online Workshop. There are 13 modules to get you started.

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Start using our easy-to-use search feature to locate resources statewide and create lists of resources you need. Add and update your information to be included in the Resource Directory.

Here's how to use SHARE's Resource Directory

Every time you search the SHARE Directory, you will see the most up-to-date information. Here's how to search:

Step 1: Enter a location

Step 2: Enter service category/ies

Step 3: Add keywords to narrow your search or to find a specific organization.

Step 4: Press submit and review your SHARE search results

You can also:

Save your searches, which will appear in your MySHARE folder.

Export search results to an Excel file.

Save and print program profiles.

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When you view your search results, you can select your favorite organizations by clicking the heart icon. These organizations will appear first in all your searches, export lists and in your MySHARE folder under "Favorites." You can remove or add organizations to this list at any time.

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Share New Mexico hosts New Mexico's largest, most up-to-date and comprehensive Resource Directory for community resources and social services. From child care to senior services, education to housing and beyond, the ShareNM's Resource Directory helps you quickly find the resources you need.

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Your hub for all things ESL and Adult Basic Education.

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1995 New Mexico State Legislative Memorial

A group of immigrants and supporters in Santa Fe campaigns to pass a state legislative memorial condemning California's passage of Proposition 187. Out of this campaign, Somos Un Pueblo Unido is born.

1999 Santa Fe Anti-discrimination Resolution

Somos works to pass a City Council resolution barring city employees, including police officers, from asking residents about their immigration status. The resolution also leads to the creation of a permanent city committee on immigrant affairs, still active today.

2000 No Immigrant Prison!

Somos rallies the community to stop Santa Fe County from opening a for-profit segregated immigrant prison.

2002 Licencias para Inmigrantes; Seguridad para Todos

Somos spearheads a statewide campaign to pass a law-making undocumented immigrants eligible for drivers' licenses in New Mexico.

2005 Greenlight New Mexico's Future

Somos organizes statewide effort to pass one of the most progressive higher education law for undocumented immigrant students in the country, allowing students to access in-state tuition and state financial aid regardless of immigration status.

2007 Raising the Floor in Santa Fe

As part of the Santa Fe Living Wage Network, Somos is instrumental in establishing one of the nation's highest citywide minimum wages with a yearly cost of living increase.

2009 Protecting New Mexico's Workers

Somos leads a campaign to pass a slate of anti-wage theft law protecting all workers from unscrupulous employers who steal their hard-earned money.

2009 Bias-based Policing Ban

Somos works alongside the NAACP and the Drug Policy Alliance to make New Mexico the 23rd state to ban racial profiling and other forms of bias-based policing.

2012 United Workers Center of New Mexico

Somos opens the state's first and only worker center to organize and provide support to low-wage workers irrespective of national origin.

2013 Speeding up Wage Recovery

The United Worker Center organizes campaign to pass a state law that expedites wage cases in court, speeding up the time it takes for wage theft victims to recuperate their money.

2014 Fighting Family Detention in Rural New Mexico

Somos organizes a grassroots effort in southeastern New Mexico to protest the incarceration of children and mothers and shut down the family detention center in Artesia.

2010-2017 ICE Out of New Mexico's Jails

Somos prevents hundreds of deportations by passing leading-edge jail policies in five counties ending collaboration with ICE and prohibiting the use of ICE detainers to violate immigrants' civil rights.

2017 Strengthening Sanctuary for All

Somos heads a campaign to strengthen Santa Fe's sanctuary policies, making them the strongest and most progressive in the country.

2011-2018 In Defense of Drivers' Licenses

Somos leads a statewide coalition to thwart repeated efforts by Governor Martinez to take away licenses from New Mexico's immigrant families.

2019 A More Efficient Driver's License System

Somos leads a statewide campaign to ensure all New Mexicans have access to a more just and efficient driver's license system.

2019 Increasing Opportunities for Working Families

Somos co-leads statewide campaigns to increase the state minimum wage, increase the state budget for additional wage theft investigators, and expand renewable energy portfolio standards while making sure immigrant workers in rural communities are not left behind in the emerging green economy.

2020-2021 Securing Economic Relief for Immigrants

Somos co-leads local and statewide campaigns to secure 10 million dollars in cash assistance for over 22,500 families left out of federal COVID-19 cash relief programs and to make undocumented tax filers eligible for the NM Working Famlies Tax Credit.

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The Adult Education Division of the New Mexico Higher Education Department (NMHED) outlines its distance learning policy in Section IV of the Adult Education Assessment Policy .

The National Reporting System (NRS) Technical Assistance Guide defines Distance Education as formal learning activity where students and instructors are separated by geography, time, or both for the majority of the instructional period. Distance learning can be delivered through a variety of media and instructors support distance learners through a variety of communication strategies including telephone, mail, or online technologies. The Adult Education Division of NMHED requires programs to track students as distance learners if at least 50% of the instructional hours scheduled for a given class are derived from proxy hours and to assess distance learners in accordance with the Assessment Policy .

The Adult Education Division allows programs to track both Contact Hours and Proxy Hours for distance learners. Contact Hours are "synchronous" hours collected when student are in direct contact with an instructor or staff member via a video call, phone call, or teleconference. Proxy Hours are "asynchronous" hours during which a student spends time learning new material without an instructor present. There are three models than can be used to assign proxy hours :

1. Clock Time Model - assigns contact hours based on the elapsed time that a participant is connected to, or engaged in, an online or stand-alone software program that tracks time

2. Teacher Verification Model - assigns a fixed number of hours for each assignment based on teacher determination of the extent to which a participant engaged in, or completed, the assignment

3. Learner Mastery Model - assigns a fixed number of hours based on the participant passing a test on the content of each lesson. This method requires that a high percentage (70%-80%) of students who take the test after completing the number of hours awarded pass it. Only curricula with a validated correlation between test-taker hours and passage rate may be used under this model.

For more information on distance learning policies and requirements, review the state's Assessment Policy .

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READING SKILLS FOR TODAY'S ADULTS UPDATE

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Try this new CCRS aligned online software family literacy program where adults work with each other, with their children, and with other family members:

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A web-based software that allows groups to communicate via phone and/or video. A webinar version also allows users to share their screens, allowing programs to show documents needed during instruction. During the pandemic, for the free, basic version of Zoom, the 40-minute time limit has been lifted. Apply online at https://zoom.us/pricing.

Free Conference Call

Free Conference Call is a conference call solution which allows up to 1,000 participants to participate in a phone conference for free. There is a web-based version which allows for screen sharing, which gives instructors the ability to show learners documents needed for instruction.

Backchannel Chat

Backchannel Chat is a free, online, text-based class discussion tool that is designed to support instructors. Backchannels are great for facilitating participation in classroom discussions.

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts is an easy-to-join way to conduct video calls between instructors and learners. Google is now rolling out free access to the advanced Hangouts video-conference capabilities for education customers until July 1. Click here to learn more.

Skype

Similar to Zoom or other software, Skype is an easy way for instructors and leaners to communicate. You can download and access Skype for free.

While this is not an exhaustive list, these are some of the more popular, free tools to explore for helping programs continue communication between administrators, instructors, and learners.

Online Learning Consortium

OLC Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness: a collection of resources and initiatives to support efforts in moving courses to an online format... https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/about/olc-continuity-planning-moving-teaching-online/

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Strengthening the adult education landscape through robust training in instructional techniques, program management, and student support.

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Google Workspace for Education provides all Google tools and more storage space than a regular Google account. The NM Adult Education Google Workspace is provided with the domain nmdelt.org.

One of the greatest advantages is access to all of the tools available in Google Classroom. Google Classroom is a learning management system that integrates Google tools as well as other tools to create, distribute, and collect assignments. The Teaching and Learning Upgrade for instructors adds functionality to Google tools, especially Google Meet and Google Classroom. to learn more about this upgrade.

Another great advantage of Google Workspace is the ability to manage Chromebooks through the Admin app. This has been helpful for programs that want to check out equipment to students. The management system allows the Chome Management Administrator in the program to disable a device that has gone missing. It cannot be used by anyone until it is reactivated. This has ensured the return of many Chromebooks. Contact the professional development coordinator for more information about managing Chromebooks.

Request an account at Request an NMDELT Account . If you would like to embed this form on your own website, please contact the professional development coordinator.

Who Completes the Form: S tudents and instructors should complete the form for themselves with support if necessary . Filling out an online form is a digital skill that adult education students should acquire if they don't already have this skill. Students are also less likely to misspell their own names than having someone else enter the information.

Current Email Address: Most students, especially if they have cell phones, have an email address that they are currently using. Entering a current email address helps the student if they need to reset their password. It also helps to identify a student if two students have requested the same username. DO NOT use your NMDELT email as the student's current email. This really confuses the system and the student can get your notifications and you can get theirs. If the student does not have a current email address, that field should be left blank.

Creating a Username: Avoid using common username patterns. First initial, last name worked early on with the NMDELT domain but there are now close to 10,000 users and a lot of duplicate users with that pattern. A best practice is to use their current email username so they can remember it and it is likely to be unique. There have been very few instances when that username just wasn't appropriate for a school/professional account. Usernames can be looked up using the Directory in Google Contacts when logged in with an NMDELT account.

Account Creation: NMDELT accounts are created at least once every workday and usually twice, once in the ea rly morning and another time mid-afternoon . To check if an account has been created, use the Directory in Google Contacts when logged in with an NMDELT account. Others use Groups or attempt to send an email with their NMDELT account to see if an account has been created. Students are not contacted when their accounts are created. The password is provided to the instructor who must give it to the student and assist the student with logging into their account.

Account Deletions: If an account is created and the user does not sign in within six months, the account will be deleted. If this happens, the user can request another account. Accounts that have not been used for 4 years or more are also subject to automatic deletion. Accounts may also be deleted upon request of the user or the supervisor/director. Deleted accounts can be recovered within 90 days of deletion.

NOTE FOR INSTRUCTOR/STAFF ACCOUNTS: Access to NMDELT accounts is a benefit due to employment or volunteering in an adult education or adult literacy program. If affiliation with a program ends, the NMDELT account will be suspended or deleted. Supervisors should make sure the departing employee/volunteer is not the owner of any program documents before the account is deleted. Please contact us for assistance if necessary. No employee/volunteer accounts will be deleted without notifying the program director.

For urgent needs , the fastest way to reach Tina Hite, Professional Development Coordinator, is through Google Chat. Chat messages can be accessed through NMDELT Gmail on the computer or mobile app. Send a Chat message to tina@nmdelt.org and it will be answered as soon as possible including evenings and weekends. Text messages are also received at 505-916-1282 and will be responded to quickly. Email is typically not checked evenings or weekends.

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Beauty, joy, creativity - Are these things present in your math classes? Could they be?

Mathematics, music and art are all human endeavors that help us understand the world around us and to express ourselves. Learn how the arts can deepen students' understanding of essential math concepts and help them tune-in to the math in the world around them. No music or art skills are needed to enjoy this fun-filled day of learning and growing as math practitioners. To learn more, check out our flyer: EXPERIENCING HARMONY & BEAUTY in MATHEMATICAL PATTERNS.

The two videos below offer a sneak-preview into the event.

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Beauty, joy, creativity - Are these things present in your math classes? Could they be? Mathematics, music and art are all human endeavors that help us understand the world around us and to express ourselves. Learn how the arts can deepen students' understanding of essential math concepts and help them tune-in to the math in the world around them.

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Do you harbour ambitions to publish a language learning book of your own?

In this exclusive online workshop, Olly will take you behind the scenes of his best-selling books, showing you how the books were created, and how he formed a partnership with one of the biggest language publishers in the world.

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Read for pleasure at your level with Olly Richard's unmissable collection of short stories for beginner level language learners

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Tools for Tutors | Literacy Action of Central Arkansas

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This site contains all audio segments that accompany the Ventures series’ student books. You can use them with your student in several ways: via podcast, download, or in-browser playing. We like to save this link on the notes app of our phone and play it easily from there. This audio is also found on the CDs in the back of the student books. Ventures Online Link

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edWeb: A professional online community for educators

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Decoding – A Decoding Strategy Part 1 : Practicing

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Learning Disabilities Association of America

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The impact of learning disabilities is lifelong. The issues that made school work so challenging as a child crop up again in the workplace, in social situations, and in our homes. Paperwork and reports at work; keeping up with bills; and helping our children with their homework can be a struggle.

Maybe you grew up knowing you had a learning disability and received special education services. Or you struggled with learning difficulties and never knew exactly how to identify the problem. As an adult, you are probably now in command of a number of techniques that make life easier. Over the years, you have figured out ways to obtain and keep track of the information you need. You have developed systems to get organized. On this page, you can find even more avenues to success at work, in your relationships, and in the community.

If you are just learning that you have a learning disability you may be confused and not know where to begin. It can be a daunting and complicated task. But don't despair. LDA is here to help you understand this new diagnosis and lead you or your child to the right support systems.
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A list of Minnesota approved learning platforms covering various topics and skill levels.

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This CREATE Adult Skills Network research team is exploring the rollout of the Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM) framework developed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) and will develop and pilot test instructional resources for TSTM, delivered through an online platform called SkillBlox.

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Readying Arkansas for a Lifetime of Literacy

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Through the LINCS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, self-paced ONLINE COURSES, and searchable RESOURCES, adult education practitioners nationwide harness the power of collaboration and sharing to improve educational outcomes.

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CAST is a multifaceted organization with a singular ambition: Bust the barriers to learning that millions of people experience every day. We do this by helping educators and organizations apply insights from the learning sciences and leading-edge practices to educational design and implementation.

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The Distance Education Online Training Series includes three online courses with practical guidance and tools needed to implement distance education in your literacy program. Two of the courses complement lesson-planning activities and strategies of our Tutor Training online workshops to guide tutors, instructors, and any staff members or volunteers who work closely with instruction of basic literacy and English language learners.
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Talk with Me Toolkits provide caregivers chances to talk with their children to improve thinking, vocabulary, and language development. Talking with your child is great-and research shows that the ...

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Popular ESL Author's 'Long Stories Short' Builds Reading and Language Connections - ProLiteracy

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The new ESL series from New Readers Press uses entertaining stories as the basis to teach vocabulary, grammar, spelling, syntax, pronunciation, and more.

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Adult education changes lives. See this article to read what earning a high school equivalency certificate means to these men in corrections. Hats off to the wonderful instructors and administrators working in corrections!

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Are you a new volunteer tutor? Our Tutor Essentials course teaches you everything you need to know about becoming an ABE or ESL tutor in Illinois!

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The New England Learner Persistence (NELP) Project was a collaboration between the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC)/World Education and its member states. The goal of the project was to improve adult learner persistence and outcomes in order for adult learners to meet their educational and related life goals.

Over the spring 2008 semester, 18 New England programs implemented one or more new persistence strategies and documented the qualitative and quantitative impact on student persistence. This report synthesizes the results of those investigations.

The project found six underlying drivers of persistence that explain the positive effect of varied persistence strategies.

The 18 participating program teams were guided through a professional development process that prepared and supported them in their program-based research. They:

Participated in a 3-session NCSALL study circle on adult student persistence

Self-assessed their own program implementation of persistence strategies

Attended a kick-off conference on persistence and action research

Identified 1-3 strategies they felt held promise for their program contexts

Implemented their chosen strategies over the spring semester

Documented quantitative changes in attendance and completion rates

Documented qualitative changes in students, classes, and staff

Participating programs received a $3,000 mini-grant and technical assistance through the NELRC.

The interventions of the 18 New England programs impacted 755 unique students and resulted in measurable improvements in the rates of attendance and course completions.

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Are you using Zoom, Google Meet or WhatsApp to teach or tutor learners online? Are you a teacher trainer or program coordinator leading webinars for volunteers? The following resources will help tutors, teachers, and learners navigate the features and functions of these digital platforms on computers or mobile devices.

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Description Motivational research identifies utility value, or the importance of a learning task to future goals, as central to motivation to learn. This study analyzed survey data (N = 86) collected from adult literacy learners to examine their utility value of writing improvement in grammar and spelling skills, word processing skills, and planning, drafting, and revising skills. Findings revealed that participants had a high utility value of improving writing in all three skill areas and possessed a variety of underlying motivations, including obtaining further education, seeking future employment, and personal reasons. Participants’ age, educational attainment, and reading levels showed relationships with utility value of improving grammar and spelling skills, and age showed an additional relationship to utility value of improving word processing skills. This work extends research on motivation in this population and supports the application of expectancy-value theory to both adult motivation and writing motivation. A free video is available on the utility value of improving writing skills for adult basic education students on this page. A subscription or one-time payment is required access this full publication from the Writing in Adult Secondary Education Classes team. 

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Excellence In Adult Education | Useful Websites for Teachers & Students

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Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language. This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. It has many interactive quizzes, as well as the VOA special report, where students can learn about current events while both seeing the print and listening to the report.

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The 8th Edition of the IDEAL Distance Education and Blended Learning Handbook provides guidance on setting up distance education, blended learning, and hyflex courses in adult education programs. The organization of the Handbook chapters reflects important programmatic considerations, including: recruitment, screening, orientation, instruction, and assessment. The guidance provided and reflection required in each chapter support the development of practical plans for distance and blended education implementation. The end goal for readers of the Handbook is crafting a distance or blended education program planning document. This edition builds on lessons learned from innovations developed in response to COVID-19 school closures, adds information about hyflex course creation and implementation, and includes insights about attending to equity in distance education programming.
The 8th Edition of the IDEAL Distance Education and Blended Learning Handbook provides guidance on setting up distance education, blended learning, and hyflex courses in adult education programs. The organization of the Handbook chapters reflects important programmatic considerations, including: recruitment, screening, orientation, instruction, and assessment. The guidance provided and reflection required in each chapter support the development of practical plans for distance and blended education implementation. The end goal for readers of the Handbook is crafting a distance or blended education program planning document. This edition builds on lessons learned from innovations developed in response to COVID-19 school closures, adds information about hyflex course creation and implementation, and includes insights about attending to equity in distance education programming.
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IDEAL Distance Education and Blended Learning Handbook, 8th Edition

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The 8th Edition of the IDEAL Distance Education and Blended Learning Handbook provides guidance on setting up distance education, blended learning, and hyflex courses in adult education programs. The organization of the Handbook chapters reflects important programmatic considerations, including: recruitment, screening, orientation, instruction, and assessment.

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The resources on this page are free hi-lo readers organized to parallel the theme-based vocabulary units . Typically , instructors/tutors should lay vocabulary groundwork before introducing learners to these stories. The stories are a continuation of vocabulary acquisition plus a bridge toward meaning-making with text. The stories are a compilation of readers created by the Pathway to Literacy team or adapted from stories produced by Literacy Minnesota, Bow Valley School of Global Access, We Speak NYC, and CIWA.

Overview of Approach

The scaffolded reading approach, which is outlined below, is used with learners in the classroom.

Introduce the story with pictures/background

Read the story aloud to the learners (don't show the words)

Ask Yes/No comprehension questions

Read the story aloud to the learners (show the words)

Read the story again, with students repeating (echo reading)

Read numbered sentence(s) from the story - students identify which # sentence you're reading

Ask wh- comprehension questions

Read the story all together (choral reading)

Have students read a word or sentence, depending on their level

Ask personalized questions for learners based on the story

To this approach demonstrated, watch the Recording Classroom Assistant Training (1.5-hour video).

For instructions o n how to print the Printable Versions: Instructions for Printing Booklets

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In the interim, regular story slides can be modified and printed for in person classes.

CLOTHING / SHOPPING Stories

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Adult ELL Pathway To Literacy - Theme-Based Stories

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Theme-Based Stories The resources on this page are free hi-lo readers organized to parallel the theme-based vocabulary units. Typically, instructors/tutors should lay vocabulary groundwork before introducing learners to these stories. The stories are a continuation of vocabulary acquisition plus a

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New American Horizons ESL Training Videos

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We scoured the web searching for the best instructional resources for adult literacy tutors and teachers and then gathered them together in one easy to navigate location. The result is the Tutor Help Center. This is a dynamic resource, so we will be updating it frequently. If you know of a good website, resource, or idea that has worked for you, please share it with us. We also welcome feedback so we can serve you better. Please send recommendations and feedback to piettaj@floridaliteracy.org or fax them to 407-246-7104.

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Co-created by adult educators using stories from Reading Skills for Today's Adults (RSTA), CrowdED Learning is proud to offer 345 leveled readings and engaging activities to learners and instructors in a variety of formats.

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HippoCampus is broadly used in homeschools and conventional classrooms to punctuate blended instruction and show simulations. The open site was designed as part of a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. Educators can create content playlists, and NROC members can seamlessly integrate these videos into shared instructional applications.

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PANDA: Minnesota ABE Physical and Nonapparent Disability Assistance

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We've compiled our favorite tutorials, resources, and information to support your adult literacy tutoring practice! Brand new to tutoring and don't know where to start? Ready to Tutor You'll find guidance to help you prepare for your first lesson and quick resources for supporting your tutoring practice.

Tutor Essentials We call it Tutor Essentials because it covers the foundational knowledge you need to get started as an effective volunteer tutor. This 12-hour pre-service training for new adult literacy volunteers is offered in ABE or ESL focuses. In this training, we'll teach you everything you need to know to feel prepared for your first meeting with your learner.

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We've compiled our favorite tutorials, resources, and information to support your adult literacy tutoring practice! Brand new to tutoring and don't know where to start? Ready to Tutor You'll find guidance to help you prepare for your first lesson and quick resources for supporting your tutoring

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Instructional Video: Evidence-Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) in the ABE Classroom - Comprehension StrategiesIn this video, Stephanie Gaboury of the Blue Hills Adult Education Program teaches her intermediate-level ABE students (GLE 4-8.9) a new reading comprehension strategy to help them…