Author: Kirsten SchaetzelPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472039660
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
How to prepare adult English learners for reading success
Preparing Adult English Learners to Read for College and the Workplace
Author: Kirsten SchaetzelPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472039660
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
How to prepare adult English learners for reading success
Preparing Adult English Learners to Write for College and the Workplace
Author: Kirsten SchaetzelPublisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN: 9780472037360
Category : Adult learning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume has been written to address the new communicative demands that the 21st century has brought to the workplace. Today's adult education programs must prepare students to understand complex operations, be problem-solvers, be computer literate, and be fluent in professional English when speaking and writing. As a result, writing has become a bigger need in the field of adult education, and writing instruction must follow suit and extend beyond transactional writing (taking notes, correcting grammar, writing narratives) to rhetorically flexible writing for multiple audiences, purposes, and contexts, whether for a college course or in the workplace. Some of the specific types of writing students need now are the ability to: write argumentative, technical, and informative texts; create, argue for, and support a thesis statement; summarize; write concisely with appropriate vocabulary; produce a well-edited piece understandable to native speakers; and use and credit sources. The volume is organized into four parts. Chapters are written by current (or former) adult educators with experience across levels. Each chapter introduces an approach based on research that can guide writing instruction and provides specific guidance and tools for implementation. Questions open and close the chapters to guide reading and frame future exploration. JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall has written the Epilogue. Readers will discover ways to move adults into higher education and careers by helping them be college and career ready, to integrate writing into the existing curriculum in adult education programs at all levels, including content classes, and to teach writing according to national and state standards. Book jacket.
Preparing for Success
Author: Brigitte MarshallPublisher: Center for Applied Linguistics
ISBN: 9781887744614
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book describes the policy initiatives and economic realities that influence the design of programs for adult English language learners, demonstrating how the agendas of each stakeholder can be reconciled in a way that renders them mutually supportive. It focuses on the commonalities among stakeholder goals. It equips instructors to provide quality learner-centered instruction while responding to the full range of current programmatic demands. Section 1 describes the forces shaping program design and administration. Section 2 provides practical suggestions on how to assess the needs of various stakeholders. Section three gives strategies for reconciling the agendas of the stakeholders. Section 4 presents ways to convey workplace and civics competencies through the instructional process. Section 5 discusses how to convey behavioral expectations through classroom management techniques. Section 6 offers suggestions for helping learners develop lifelong learning skills. Worksheets are included. (Contains 31 references.) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (SM).
Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education
Author: Carol E. KaswormPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412960509
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Drawing on the contributions of 75 leading authors in the field, this 2010 Edition of the respected Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education provides adult education scholars, programme administrators, and teachers with a solid foundation for understanding the current guiding beliefs, practices, and tensions faced in the field, as well as a basis for developing and refining their own approaches to their work and scholarship. Offering expanded discussions in the areas of social justice, technology, and the global dimensions of adult and continuing education, the Handbook continues the tradition of previous volumes with discussions of contemporary theories, current forms and contexts of practice, and core processes and functions. Insightful chapters examine adult and continuing education as it relates to gender and sexuality, race, our aging society, class and place, and disability.
Resources in Education
Author: CASAS Test Prep Student Book for Reading Goals Forms 903R/904R Level B
Author: Coaching For Better Learning LLCPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
CASAS Reading GOALS Student Textbook Level B Forms 903R/904R This test prep student book is designed to successfully develop adult learners' academic reading skills, preparing them for CASAS Reading GOALS Level B Forms 903R/904R tests and for workforce and college reading. In other words, this student textbook presents academic reading activities that help adult education programs and workforce programs, and their learners meet the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) reading expectations. The reading exercises and answer keys of this test prep student book cover CASAS Reading GOALS Level B standards and College and Career Readiness (CCR) reading standards and content. For example, each lesson focuses on three main areas: vocabulary, reading comprehension skills, and higher-order reading skills. This reading textbook covers and teaches the following reading strategies: ✓ Using Background Knowledge ✓ Making Inferences and Predictions ✓ Using Visual Imagery ✓ Identifying Types of Text Structures ✓ Understanding Figurative Language ✓ Building Vocabulary Using Context Clues ✓ Understanding Question-Answer Relationships (QARs) ✓ Learning Nonfiction Text Features ✓ Reading for Main Ideas ✓ Understanding Main Ideas and Finding Evidence ✓ Understanding What You Read ✓ Using Text Structure to Build Reading Comprehension ✓ Understanding Point-of-View ✓ Reading Graphs and Data This consumable student book provides practice exercises for using the reading strategies to access different types of texts (science, social studies, and technical texts, literary texts). The lessons put emphasis on text complexity, evidence, and knowledge.
Framework for Developing Skill Standards for Workplace Literacy
Author: Eunice N. AskovPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788145428
Category : Workplace literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Adult educators working in workplace literacy & workforce preparation programs need to be aware of the many efforts to define standards for the knowledge, skills, & abilities needed for successful performance in the workplace. This report describes the various efforts related to skill standards & other policy initiatives for those who may not be directly involved in these ongoing efforts. Includes skill descriptions as the framework for workplace literacy skill standards. Contents: background to the occupational skill standards efforts; occupational skill standards; framework for skill standards; discussion & conclusions.
Congressional Record
Author: TABE 11 and 12 Consumable Student Reading Manual for Level M
Author: Coaching For Better LearningPublisher:
ISBN: 9781688451513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
This Consumable TABE 11 & 12 Student Reading Manual for Level M is designed to successfully prepare adult learners for the TABE 11 & 12 Level M reading test and vocational training admission reading tests. In other words, this manual presents exercises that help adult education programs and workforce programs, and their learners meet the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) reading expectations.The reading exercises and answer keys of this manual cover TABE 11 & 12 Level M and CCR reading standards and content. For example, the reading comprehension exercises address 1)Key ideas and details, 2)Craft and structure and 3)The integration of knowledge and ideas. This Consumable TABE 11 & 12 Reading Student Manual for Level M is divided into 20 sections. They are 1. Introduction2. Lesson 1 - Suggestions for Better Reading Comprehension3. Lesson 2 - Activating Background Knowledge4. Lesson 3 - Making Inferences 5. Lesson 4 - Visual Imagery 6. Lesson 5 - Vocabulary and Context Clues7. Lesson 6 - Question-Answer Relationships8. Lesson 7 - Reading for Main Ideas9. Lesson 8 - Comprehension Monitoring 10. Lesson 9 - Summarization 11. Lesson 10 - Understanding Figurative Language 12. Lesson 11 - Identifying Text Structure13. Lesson 12 - Point of View14. Reading Strategy Summary Cards15. Connections to the Standards 16. Reading Long Passages17. Additional Reading Exercises 18. Reading Skills Self-Evaluation19. Practice Tests 20. Answer Keys To be specific, this manual is designed for adult learners as an instructional guide for the development of reading comprehension strategies and skills. This book offers reading strategies to help adult learners become more active, strategic, and purposeful readers. The use of these strategies will also help learners understand and remember what they read.Reading is an active and thinking process. Therefore, this book encourages learners to actively engage with texts (technical, scientific, social studies, and literary) by predicting, making connections and inferences, asking and answering questions, and completing the comprehension activities.Reading StrategiesThere are eight research-based strategies presented in this manual: Activating background or prior knowledge, Making inferences and prediction,Using visual imagery, Using context clues to build vocabulary, Question & answer relationships (QARs), Reading for main ideas, Comprehension monitoring and Summarizing.In addition to the eight reading strategies, the reader is introduced to figurative language such as simile and metaphor. Understanding their use in reading is an aid to comprehending text. Understanding theme, or the author's message about human nature or life, is also discussed.Text structure, or organizational pattern--chronology, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem-solution--is also presented in this manual. Knowledge of text structure can help learners understand and remember what they read. Examples of the various structures are provided in the first section of the manual.Finally, this manual teaches about point of view. Identifying point of view in fiction and non-fiction texts improves reading comprehension. And all the reading strategies are presented with examples, pictures, and text.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description