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Adult education programs play a vital role in helping students prepare for meaningful employment by encouraging them to identify, strengthen, and apply workforce skills. Also called transferable or employability skills, workforce skills encompass a wide range of practical skills that are relevant…
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Teaching Math to English Language Learners
All of our classroom-ready materials are created with the principles of Universal Design and are meant to be effective with all learners. This page contains resources that are specific to ESOL students.
Note: If you have difficulties accessing any of…
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Does it feel like you just got a grasp on teaching digital literacy, only for AI to rewrite the rules? If your head is spinning amid the rapid developments in technology and the skills that students need in today’s workforce, you aren’t alone. While the world is changing fast, the field of adult…
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Adult educators: you know you can help your learners prepare for work by building their reading, writing, and math skills. It’s just as important to develop their thinking skills. These include:
Critical thinking
Problem solving
Information analysis
Adapting to change
These skills matter more…
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Mathematics Professional Standards Self-Evaluations are available to MA teachers to reflect on their math practice. Each of these online self-evaluations is aligned with an ABE Professional Standard. The evaluations can then be used to help create a professional learning plan.
Teachers already…
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U.S. Immigration Issues Impacting Our Communities explores immigration issues in the U.S. at specific moments in history and in the present day. It provides opportunities for students to connect to their experiences, current events, and core content of the Language Arts and Social Studies HSE exams…
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The SABES English Language Arts team has created a video series called Creating Robust ELA Unit Plans Using the SABES Template. The video series features Lauren Twardy, an ABE teacher with Middlesex Community College, and her experiences using the SABES ELA Unit Plan template to…
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The Massachusetts Professional Standards for Teachers of Adult Basic Education (often referred to as the ABE Professional Standards) outlines what is important for effective adult basic education (ABE) teachers of mathematics and/or English language arts (ELA) to know and be able to do.
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Priority Lenses
The Priority Lenses below are drawn from ACLS priorities stated in the Massachusetts ABE Professional Standards, the ACLS webpages for Curriculum & Instruction, and the MA Indicators of Program Quality. Teachers and programs can use these lenses to…
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ELA Lens: Differentiation
Differentiated Instruction refers to what teachers do to adapt an existing lesson plan or unit for the learners they are actually teaching at any given moment, so that all their learners are engaged in challenging but accessible tasks.
In making decisions about how to…
