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From New American Horizons Foundation: 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.

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Lesson Planning for Life Skills shows Betsy Wong guiding beginners through highly-structured to open-ended activities, following the progression of a life skills lesson on talking on the telephone.

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Susan Watson of Prince William County, Virginia, offers techniques to deal with differing levels of language ability within one class, including use of grouping strategies, differentiated materials, and a small group project.

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Working with a Multi-level Class, with Susan Watson, offers techniques to deal with differing levels of language ability in one class, including the use of grouping strategies, differentiated materials, and a small group project.

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Assessing Learning in the Adult ESL Classroom

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Assessing Learning in the Adult ESL Classroom

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Effective formative assessment connects with instructional objectives & outcomes; uses multiple, varied strategies & tasks; is ongoing throughout the lesson; & provides feedback on progress to inform instruction.

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Assessing Learning in the Adult ESL Classroom

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Teachers demonstrate techniques for assessing learning in a variety of classes and levels.

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Integrating Technology in Adult ESOL Instruction

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Integrating Technology in Adult ESOL Instruction

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by Nell Eckersley of the Literacy Assistance Center

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Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking & Learning Skills

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Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking & Learning Skills

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Learn about Critical Thinking Skills (compare & contrast; identify assumptions; interpret, analyze, & evaluate; summarize & synthesize), Learning Skills (categorize & organize ideas, make & confirm predictions, listen & read selectively, practice note-taking), Activities (categorizing tasks, activities using grids, graphic organizers).

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Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking and Learning Skills

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In a variety of classes, teachers show strategies to foster higher-order thinking and learning.

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Ratio & Proportion: Accepting Student Responses

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Ratio & Proportion: Accepting Student Responses

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From Media Library of Teaching Strategies: Math learners and thinkers share their ideas in problem solving. One strategy that math teacher, Abby Magee, uses is to write proposed solutions on the board and then discuss how these solutions were developed.

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Ratio and Proportion: Accepting Student Responses

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Going Mobile: Developing & Using Mobile Friendly Content in Adult Education

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Going Mobile: Developing & Using Mobile Friendly Content in Adult Education

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by Nell Eckersley of the Literacy Assistance Center

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Growing Vocabulary with Beginning Learners

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Growing Vocabulary with Beginning Learners

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From New American Horizons Foundation: 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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Growing Vocabulary with Beginning Learners

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Growing Vocabulary with Beginning Learners, with Karli Boothe, demonstrates the use of 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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Tasks to Promote Oral Skills: from Accuracy to Fluency

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Tasks to Promote Oral Skills: from Accuracy to Fluency

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Discover tasks that focus on vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, & language functions & competencies, such as TPR, line-ups, matching & chain activities, flyswatter game, & grid interviews.

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Tasks to Promote Oral Skills: From Accuracy to Fluency

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In several classes, learners develop oral skills, using accuracy-oriented and fluency-oriented activities.

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Enhancing Student Learning Through Assessment

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Enhancing Student Learning Through Assessment

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by Ashley Wong

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Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Leaders

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Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Leaders

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From New American Horizons Foundation: 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.

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Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Readers

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Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Readers, with Andrea Echelberger, shows 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.

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Cultivating Writing Skills at the Intermediate Level

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Cultivating Writing Skills at the Intermediate Level

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Sheryl Sherwin of Washington, D.C., guides learners through a series of activities that prepare them to complete a writing assignment. She utilizes a pre-writing survey assignment, group discussion, graphic organizers, and target text models to help learners take command of the process of writing.

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Cultivating Writing Skills at the Intermediate Level

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Cultivating Writing Skills at the Intermediate Level shows Sheryl Sherwin guiding a series of activities that prepare learners to complete a writing assignment, using a pre-writing survey, group discussion, graphic organizers, and target text models.

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Developing Reading Skills for Intermediate/Advanced Learners

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Developing Reading Skills for Intermediate/Advanced Learners

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From New American Horizons Foundation: George Schooley of Saint Paul, Minnesota, takes learners from pre-reading through follow-up tasks using a text about birth-order theory. He demonstrates how to make reading lessons highly interactive by connecting content to learners’ lives, using graphic organizers, and having both group and individual tasks.

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Developing Reading Skills for Intermediate/Advanced Learners

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Developing Reading Skills for Intermediate/Advanced Learners shows George Schooley taking a highly interactive approach to reading a text, connecting content to learners' lives, using graphic organizers, and having both group and individual tasks.

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From Media Library of Teaching Skills: Doris Plumb uses a writing process that involves writing quickly in a journal, without thinking, so students' ideas come out fast.

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Doris Plumb uses a writing process that involves writing quickly in a journal, without thinking, so students' ideas come out fast. Doris gives a topic, Last Week's Experiences. She stresses as a purpose writing to learn something, to find their thoughts on issues, on themselves and others.

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Developing Listening Skills with High-Intermediate Learners 

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Developing Listening Skills with High-Intermediate Learners 

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Jessica Jones of Saint Paul, Minnesota, leads her class through a lesson on the theme of cross-cultural experiences, including pre-listening activities, tasks learners complete while listening, and follow-up activities.

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Developing Listening Skills with High-intermediate Learners

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Developing Listening Skills with High-intermediate Learners shows Jessica Jones leading a lesson on the theme of cross-cultural experiences, including pre-listening activities, tasks while listening to three interviews, and follow-up activities.

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Effective Grouping Strategies in the Adult ESL Classroom

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Effective Grouping Strategies in the Adult ESL Classroom

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Maximize STT (student talking time) through random grouping, like-ability groups, mixed-ability groups, whole group, modeling, & collaborative learning.

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Effective Grouping Strategies in the Adult ESL Classroom

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In several classes, teachers demonstrate a variety of ways to group students for differing purposes.

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Using Group Work Effectively to Increase Student Speaking Time in Class

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Using Group Work Effectively to Increase Student Speaking Time in Class

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From American English

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AE Webinar 3.5 - Using Group Work Effectively to Increase Student Speaking Time in Class

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From New American Horizons Foundation: Suzanne McCurdy of Saint Paul, Minnesota, uses a contextualized approach to presenting and practicing grammar with her intermediate level learners, allowing them to recognize and use the simple past and present perfect tenses in the contexts of life histories and personal experiences.

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Teaching Grammar in Real-life Contexts shows Suzanne McCurdy using a contextualized approach to grammar with intermediate learners, allowing them to use the simple past and present perfect tenses in the context of life histories and real experiences.

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by Jenna Martinez-Lynch

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2017 Spring_Bring the outside world in.pptx

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I Wish, I Can, I Will (Enhancing Students' Sense of Self-Efficacy)

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I Wish, I Can, I Will (Enhancing Students' Sense of Self-Efficacy)

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by Be Jensen of the Literacy Assistance Center

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2017 Spring_Wish I Can I Will Condensed.pdf

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Lesson Planning & Curriculum Building with the Future series

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Lesson Planning & Curriculum Building with the Future series

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by Annie Forman

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by Kaylee Fernandez

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From the NY Common Core HSE Teacher Leadership Institute.

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Using Smartphones in the ESOL Classroom 

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Using Smartphones in the ESOL Classroom 

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Teacher Workshop (10.12.18) Using Smartphones in the Classroom

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Model Lesson: Pre-Teaching | PBS LearningMedia

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In this pre-teaching scenario, adult education instructor Duane Lambert gets his learners involved in understanding elements of persuasion while introducing some basic concepts and essential questions. Effective pre-teaching sets the tone for your class and lets learners know what to expect. Pre-teaching can act as a "hook" to get your learners' attention.

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Model Lesson: Working In Groups | PBS LearningMedia

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In this video, adult education instructor Duane Lambert puts learners into groups to formulate arguments for and against a specific issue. Each group discusses their position and prepares to deliver a persuasive argument. These resources are part of KET's Teaching Strategies collection.

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Model Lesson: Teacher Interview: Parts of the Lesson | PBS LearningMedia

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Adult education instructor Duane Lambert discusses his approach to designing lessons for adult learners. He describes how his lessons transition through the stages of pre-teaching, teaching, and closure. These resources are part of KET's Teaching Strategies collection.

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Model Lesson: Closure | PBS LearningMedia

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In this video, viewers watch the conclusion of a lesson where instructor Duane Lambert asks learners to identify something they learned, the questions they have, and the concepts that connect with something they already know. At the conclusion of a lesson, it is helpful to have students reflect on the topic and consider how, or if, it relates to prior knowledge.

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Pre-Teaching

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Pre-Teaching

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Pre-Teaching | PBS LearningMedia

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In this video, adult education instructors Pat Marshall and Elizabeth Dinkins use pre-teaching techniques and everyday items to introduce a lesson on fractions and ratios. They review the work that learners completed in several pre-teaching activities. These resources are part of KET's Teaching Strategies collection.

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Teaching

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Teaching

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Teaching | PBS LearningMedia

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Adult education instructors Pat Marshall and Elizabeth Dinkins demonstrate a teaching style of explicit instruction while using real-life examples to demonstrate ratio and to illustrate the relationship between fractions and ratios. Team teaching can also be an effective approach in the adult education classroom.

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Differentiation of Activities

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Differentiation of Activities

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Differentiation of Activities | PBS LearningMedia

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In this video, adult education instructors Pat Marshall and Elizabeth Dinkins give learners several out-of-seat activities to illustrate and practice the concepts in the day's lesson. These resources are part of KET's Teaching Strategies collection.

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Closure

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Closure

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Differentiation in the ABE Classroom: Closure | PBS LearningMedia

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Adult education instructors Pat Marshall and Elizabeth Dinkins review the day's lesson using a series of closure activities including a series of "I can" statements, questions about the lesson, and exit slips. At the conclusion of a lesson, it is helpful to have learners reflect on the topic and consider how, or if, it relates to prior knowledge.

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Model Lesson: Using Music to Make a Connection | PBS LearningMedia

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In this video, adult education instructor Duane Lambert uses a song to demonstrate techniques of persuasion. Learners work in groups to discuss persuasive techniques used in the song's lyrics to deliver its message. These resources are part of KET's Teaching Strategies collection.

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Model Lesson: Using a Graphic Organizer | PBS LearningMedia

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Using the persuasive arguments developed in learner groups, adult education instructor Duane Lambert demonstrates how a graphic organizer can help learners organize their thoughts. These resources are part of KET's Teaching Strategies collection.

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Model Lesson: Graffiti Fence | PBS LearningMedia

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In this video, viewers learn about working with a "graffiti fence". Adult education instructor Duane Lambert asks learners to think about current issues important to them. Learners write the issues on a "graffiti fence" and consider how to persuade others to agree with their point of view.

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Strategy guides that define and provide examples of effective literacy teaching and learning strategies and offer a wealth of related resources to help sharpen your instruction.

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Looking for new teaching strategies or interested in brushing up on the strategies you are already using in your classroom? Strategy guides define and provide examples of effective literacy teaching and learning strategies and offer a wealth of related resources to help sharpen your instruction.

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by Joseph Tropeano

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Teaching ESOL 101 by Joseph Tropeano--February 22, 2019

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KQED Teach offers a collection of free, hands-on professional learning opportunities focused on Digital Media. Educators can build skills in digital storytelling, data visualization, and critical media use to support all curriculum areas. To create a free account, enter the zip code 10027 & choose Community Impact at Columbia University as your school.

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Free self-paced online courses and workshops on media making and teaching for all educators!

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Literacy Education & Second Language Learning for Adults

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Literacy Education & Second Language Learning for Adults

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LESLLA aims to support adults with little or no home language schooling or literacy, who are now learning to read and write for the first time in a new language. Research findings, effective pedagogical practices, and information on policy.

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Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults

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