Geometry ideas surround us everywhere we look. Check out these packets for ideas on hands-on geometry ideas. Click on the links at the bottom of the page to view/download.
Topic: Angles
The Make a Kite and Measure Stuff packet was created for caretakers and kids.
The Angle Exploration packet is a…
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This guide is designed for practitioners, including teachers, lead instructors, and professional developers, who are ready to take up the challenge to change how numeracy is taught in adult education. If instructors shift their teaching to focus more on the use of numeracy skills, they might find…
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Looking for digital literacy PD that’s quick, practical, and ready when you are? Try the Innovating Distance Education for Adult Learner (IDEAL) Crash Courses!
The IDEAL Crash Courses are 30-minute, self-paced microlearning experiences, now open to all adult educators. The following Crash Courses…
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This collection includes teacher and student materials that can be downloaded as Word documents or PDFs. The math content is aimed at ABE level math students (approximately GLE 2–4). While adult students at this math level may have any level of reading, the text was kept to a minimum in…
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Teacher Reflections
Boston Public Schools Adult Education teachers Karen Greaves and Brooke Machado reflect on the financial literacy and civics lessons that they filmed in the summer of 2021 for this series, Instructional Practices in Remote ELA Teaching. They discuss how their teaching…
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Topic: Assessment Methods
Watch and listen to how the teachers use formative assessment methods in their remote classrooms to monitor student understanding and inform instruction.
Video length: 7:31 minutes | Video Transcript (PDF)
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Topic: Vocabulary Instruction
Karen Greaves teaches financial literacy vocabulary, with activities that incorporate technology and provide opportunities for students to make connections to their own lives.
Video length: 8:39 minutes | Video Transcript (PDF…
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Topic: Student Engagement using Digital Tools
Teacher Karen Greaves engages her students during a remote financial literacy lesson using digital polling and a digital whiteboard to foster student discussion.
Video length: 9:25 minutes | Video Transcript (PDF…
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Topic: Close Reading Strategies
Watch and listen to how the teacher builds background knowledge, then models and scaffolds close reading using a complex, primary-source text—the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Video length: 12:39 minutes | Video Transcript (PDF…
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Reading Instruction: Our Rights, Our Freedoms (full lesson)
Brooke Machado teaches a remote high school level Social Studies/ELA class on the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, using close reading strategies to understand the complex text of the First…
