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Download full textCommunity Action Southwest, Waynesburg, PA. – 1994
This document consists of a brief final report and a handbook from a project conducted to develop family numeracy activities and incorporate them into adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) classes in two Pennsylvania counties. The 10 activities, which were designed to help adult learners foster the development of numeracy concepts/skills in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, County Programs, Family Literacy, Family Programs
Cooper, Richard – 1994
A project was conducted to provide staff development workshops about adults with learning problems to agencies throughout Pennsylvania. Workshops and accompanying guides on nine topics ranging from understanding learning differences, problems, and disabilities to alternative instructional techniques were developed. Workshops were conducted…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Inservice Teacher Education
Doctor Gertrude A. Barber Center, Erie, PA. – 1994
A family literacy program was developed for families containing young children and learning-challenged adults whose limited reading skills made it impossible for them to read aloud to their children. The program's primary objective was to upgrade the parents' reading skills and knowledge of children's literature. The program was staffed by a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Demonstration Programs, Family Literacy
McClintock, Shelby – 1994
This document contains the final report, trainer handbook for volunteer tutor trainers, and idea book for volunteer tutors from a project conducted to develop a supplemental tutor training program and life skills curriculum specifically for developmentally disabled (DD) adult learners. The final report describes how a group of DD adult learners…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities
PDF pending restorationCentral Intermediate Unit 10, Pleasant Gap, PA. – 1995
This document includes a report on Project Tune-Up, which was conducted to update Project Prepare, a program to help Pennsylvania adult learners prepare for business school entrance examinations, the PSB [Pennsylvania State Board]-Aptitude for Practical Nursing examination, and college placement examinations. The report describes how the Project…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Harrington, Lois G., Ed. – 1982
These proceedings contain the texts of 20 reports presented at a conference organized to review and assess the status of the following types of performance/competency-based approaches to the professional development of vocational teachers and administrators: performance-based teacher education (PBTE), competency-based teacher education (CBTE),…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Competency Based Teacher Education, Delivery Systems
Jackson, Shirley F. – 1999
Because an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teacher in Pennsylvania observed from the intake questionnaires completed by her students that many ESL students lack short- and long-term goal-setting skills, she undertook an action research project to help ESL students develop the short- and long-term goal-setting skills needed for educational,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
