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E6. Collaborates effectively with learners, colleagues, and relevant
members of various educational settings (e.g., family literacy, corrections,
or workplace education) and the community at large. |
| Author |
Title |
Publishing
Information |
Abstract |
| Ackland,
R. |
A
Review of the Peer Coaching Literature |
Journal
of Staff Development
Winter 1991
v12, n1 |
This
article focuses on peer coaching with teachers. The origins, characteristics,
and objectives of peer coaching are explored. Programs are divided into
two basic forms: coaching by experts and reciprocal coaching. Recommendations
for design and implementation are presented. The article includes a list
of specific topics related to peer coaching and resources for getting
more in depth information on them. It also includes a list of questions
a program or teacher should consider when setting up a peer coaching experience. |
Comings,
J.
Sum, A.
Uvin, J. |
New
Skills for a New Economy: Adult Education's Key Role in Sustaining Economic
Growth and Expanding Opportunity |
Boston,
MassInstitute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), 2000 |
This
study reveals that as many as a million adults in Massachusetts who have
already earned HS diplomas still lack the skills needed to contend with
the complexities of modern living. The researchers offer rationales for
increased funding for adult basic education, including its long-term cost
effectiveness, and present several recommendations for program design
and the system as a whole. |
| Nunan,
David |
The
Learner-Centred Curriculum |
Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, England, 1988 |
Traditionally,
curriculum has been thought of as a statment of what SHOULD BE done in
a course of study. This books takes as it's starting point, what IS being
done by language teachers in their classrooms. Mr Nunan puts forth in
the course of this book, a model for a negotiated curriculum which involves
collaboration between teachers and learners. |
Sticht,
T.
McDonald, B.
Erickson, P. |
Passports
to Paradise: The Struggle to Teaching and to Learn on the Margins of Adult
Education |
El
Cajon, CA: Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Inc., 1998 |
Tthe
factors that help make adult literacy programs work, and in some cases
not work. It looks closely at the adult literacy system in an inner city
community in San Diego. Report divided into three parts: Part 1, The Struggle
to Learn, focuses on barriers to participation in adult literacy education,
how situational factors play a role in persistence and program retention,
and how various instructional actors such as class size, erratic attendance,
and turbulence (people being added and subtracted from the class) affect
learning. Part 2, The Struggle to Teach, focuses on the voices of teachers
and their reflections on the struggle to teach in a marginalized education
system, how the dynamics of students' lives and classroom turbulence affects
their work, and the challenges to teaching posed by great diversity due
to cultural factors and different levels of language and literacy skills.
Part 3, The Struggle to Be Better, focuses on activities to try to make
the adult literacy education system more effective. |
| Sull,
E.C. |
The
Ex-Inmate's Complete Guide to Successful Employment |
Buffalo:
Aardvark Publishing, 1990 |
This
book covers, step-by-step, the process of landing and keeping a job for
the ex-felon. With a large print format and much room left for making
notes, this book is individualized for the inmate to learn from, write
in, and reuse as a resource text while looking for employment and after
achieving employment. Topics in the book include what the inmate can do
to improve while in prison, how the inmate can begin preparation for the
job search and interview before release, and what needs to be done when
released. |
| Video |
Captured
Wisdom, CD and Video |
National
Center for Adult Literacy (NCAL)
To Order:
www.ncrel.org/cw/al/
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This
is an interactive multimedia resource designed to help inform educators
of successful technology integration practices in adult education environments.
Captured Wisdom shows innovative, replicable activities, discussed by
front-line classroom educators and learners so that other teachers can
feel they have had an opportunity to actually visit the classes and chat
directly with the learners and teachers about their work. |
| Website |
The
Whole World Was Watching |
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/
1968/ |
This
website is a wonderful example of a project based learning activity which
integrates technology. It's a joint project between South Kingstown High
School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group. The resource
contains transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of a series
of interviews conducted in the spring of 1998. Members of the Sophomore
Class at SKHS interviewed Rhode Islanders about their recollections of
the year 1968. Their stories, which include references to the Vietnam
War, the struggle for Civil Rights, the Assassinations of Martin Luther
King and Robert Kennedy as well as many more personal memories are a living
history of one of the most tumultuous years in United States history.
The project includes a glossary, timeline, and bibliography of references
for 1968 and the period in which it is embedded. |
| Website |
VALUE
(Voice for Adult Literacy United for Education) |
http://literacynet.org/value/
index.html |
This
is the website for the national group called VALUE, a non-profit organization
whose members consist of adult learners, adult learner organizations,
other individuals who support learner leadership, non-profit adult education
organizations, other kinds of non-profits, and corporations. VALUE’s
mission is to help adult learners become effective leaders in their education
programs. From that experience, learners can then apply their leadership
skills in their communities, workplaces, and families. They encourage
adult learners to have a voice and participate in their programs and communities
through: recruitment of new learners into adult education programs, retention
of learners in programs by providing support so learners don’t drop
out. The website provides information not only about the organization
but also a newsletter, sections on learners as writers and as advocates,
as well as resources for learners and practitioners interested in developing
learner leadership skills. |
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