Page 6: How to meet standards...

By way of example, here's Standard C6: "[The candidate] uses a variety of instructional methods, techniques, and tools to facilitate adult learning."

And here's the evaluation rubric that the Review Panel will be using to determine if you've met this standard. Note that you may use either coursework OR experience OR a com-bination of both to meet the standards.

Coursework:
a. Evidence of course content:
Copy of a course syllabus or a description from a college catalogue or course
announcement showing that instructional methods, techniques, and tools for adult
learners were addressed

b. Evidence of successful completion of coursework:
Copy of a transcript, or a certificate of completion, or a certificate awarding
professional development points

c. Coursework statements about:
1) Knowledge of instructional methods, techniques, and tools to facilitate adult learning
2) How to use instructional methods, techniques, and tools to facilitate adult learning

Experience:
d. Evidentiary documentation:
Copy of either a curriculum, or a syllabus, or a series of lesson plans that describes
instructional methods, or techniques, or tools used.

e. Explanatory statements about:
1) What instructional methods, or techniques, or tools were used with adult learners
2) Why these instructional methods, or techniques, or tools were used with adult learners
3) How these instructional methods, or techniques, or tools were used in the
curriculum, or syllabus, or series of lesson plans for adult basic education learners.

The rubric is designed to help you choose effective, not voluminous, evidence. For each standard, you will be presenting only the amount of evidence necessary and no more than two pages of accompanying explanation. For example, if you have taken a graduate course entitled "Instructional Methods for Teaching Adults," according to the rubric you might need to provide only a transcript, a course description from the college catalogue, and a one-two page "coursework statement." Or, to give an example of experiential evidence, you might provide a set of lesson plans as evidence and, again, a one-two page "explanatory statement." You could also provide a combination of coursework and experiential evidence to cover the standard. Acceptable experiential evidence may take many forms: a combination of shorter staff development trainings (less than ten PDPs), some self-directed study, the result of mentoring, examples of your learners' work, and so forth. To see some samples from successful portfolios, Click here. Afterwards, use the back button to return to this page.]

On the next page, you'll find the requirements for the provisional license.