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At the foundation of ESOL instruction are principles of Second Language Acquisition. This collection, newly updated in fall 2022, includes an overview of key SLA theories and a selection of instructional resources describing the effective application of these principles in the ESOL classroom.
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To meaningfully evaluate student learning, the ESOL instructor needs to understand and apply the principles of backward design. This includes planning meaningful summative assessment aligned to learning objectives, while engaging learners in self-assessment and formative assessment along the…
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Please review the attached document for details about the new ACLS and SABES FY23 Digital Literacy Advisory Group. We are in the process of recruiting a diverse group of members who can represent a range of roles, experience, and types of programs from across the state. Interested applicants should…
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The Basic Disability Screenings for Adult Education Program Use (BDSAE) provides several basic screening tools that can help start the conversation between providers and students about disability-related assessments and accommodations.
The goal of this resource is to help adult educators…
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“Data Science K-10 Big Ideas are descriptions of the most important content in data science through the grades to help focus attention on ways to increase data literacy. Big ideas are those that are central to the discipline of data science, and that link understandings into a coherent whole…
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Take Action! is a civic engagement unit developed for a social studies class at the HSE level. Students learn about the fundamentals and limitations of the municipal, state, and federal levels of government, and apply this knowledge by writing about an issue of importance to them in a formal letter…
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Curricula created by Massachusetts ABE practitioners
ELA Unit Plans, most with sample Lesson Plans (many of these follow the older templates)
NEW: Innovations & Society (FOCUS: Second Industrial Revolution) (GLE 4-8)
NEW: Various Variables: Using Scientific Thinking to Solve…
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Research has identified four essential components to the process of reading and, thus, to reading instruction: alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. WIOA requires ABE programs to provide explicit and systematic instruction in the essential components of reading to…
