Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection
Explore a collection of 838 high-quality multimedia instructional resources, informed by research, for use by adult educators. These resources have been reviewed by subject matter experts and recommended and approved by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), Division of Adult Education and Literacy. Search the collection by category, keyword, date and more.
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Learning for LIFE: An ESL Literacy Handbook
2009
Designed for instructors, program coordinators, and other stakeholders in ESL literacy, this handbook from Alberta, Canada, primarily intends to be a practical handbook, outlining promising practices in program considerations, strategies for the classroom, and four different levels of ESL literacy.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
Teacher Trainers
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PEP Talk: Personal Employment Planning System
2009
This resource contains both evidence-based research and practice-based materials that can help guide the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of career pathways programs.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
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Pre-Nursing Curriculum (College Bridge)
2009
This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.
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Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Outcomes
2009
Achieving the Dream, a national initiative to improve student success in community colleges, has taken a multipronged approach to improving outcomes in developmental education. This issue brief describes how the fifteen participating states have concentrated their policy efforts on four key areas: preventative strategies, assessment and placement, implementation and evaluation of program innovation, and performance measurement and incentives.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
Policymakers and Implementers
Teacher Trainers
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Connecting Literacy, Learning & Work
2008
This book is an accessible and comprehensive resource that offers theoretical background, rationale, insight into, and considerations for developing an educational program that links literacy and work in a meaningful way for students.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
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Creating Project Cost Estimates
2008
This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.
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Going to Work with a Criminal Record
2008
This resource contains both evidence-based research and practice-based materials that can help guide the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of career pathways programs.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
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Innovative Strategies: Ideas that Work!
2008
This guide contains 22 stories written by adult basic educators in Pennsylvania who describe the many different ways they have used PA’s Foundation Skills Framework.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
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Operating a Warehouse at Maximum Efficiency
2008
This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.
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Selecting Modes of Transportation
2008
This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.
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U. S. A. Learns
2008
USA Learns is a free website that teaches English skills to immigrants.
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