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Use the ELA Resource Alignment Tool to see how well a published resource or curriculum (including your own created curriculum) is aligned with the College & Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE), and identify actions to fill in the alignment gaps.
This tool is adapted…
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Use this form to support observations of an EBRI class, whether by peers, coaches, directors, or others.
This PDF form can be downloaded and typed into directly, or printed and used a guide.
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Did you know? This one-page summary is based on the Massachusetts Adult Education Standards for High Quality Professional Development (HQPD), the foundation of SABES PD.
When printing, choose "Fit" or "Fit to page" if you get the choice.
Check the HQPD Standards themselves for more detail.
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From the national STAR trainers: a bibliography of resources that may be of interest to STAR practitioners, updated for 2019.
Sections include:
Research Overviews
Adult Literacy Assessments
Assessment of Components of Reading
ABE Reading Instruction
Other Factors Affecting ABE Instruction
K-12…
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The New York Times Learning Network hosted "Teaching With The Times Across the Curriculum" webinars in the Fall of 2017. The free one-hour webinar archives are still available to watch, and while specific news may have changed, the overall topics are highly relevant:
Picture This: Teaching…
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This text set on Vision is designed so that a video text introduces each topic, followed by an article. The articles can be read aloud as pairs or individually to accommodate learners’ reading abilities. (Find other Text Sets, and read about their pre-teaching considerations, structure, and use in…
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Text Sets are curated sequences of resources that build knowledge on a topic, with a few activities to help note and summarize the learning. They are great tools, and can be a key part of incorporating two of the CCRSAE instructional shifts: Text Complexity and Building Knowledge.
This collection…
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This web page offers 15 classroom activities, exercises, and discussion guides to help address cultural and racial issues.
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Teaching Tolerance's mission is to help teachers and schools educate students "to be active participants in a diverse democracy," with an emphasis on social justice, challenging prejudice, and learning how to be agents of change in our own lives. Teaching Tolerance's rich website is full of free…
