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Fisher, Allison L.; Willard, Penny – 1994
A three-part series of evening workshops was designed to help adult basic education (ABE) parents identify learning styles and develop communication and advocacy skills, assertiveness, and self-esteem. At the workshops, instructors from the center presented an adaptation of curriculum on self-esteem for parenting developed by the Center for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Advocacy, Cognitive Style, Communication Skills
Chester County Opportunities Industrialization Center, West Chester, PA. – 1994
An evening adult literacy program was developed to provide pre-General Educational Development (GED) instruction to residents of a men's shelter who desired to become dry cleaners pressers. Because an intake assessment of the 32 enrollees revealed that only 34% of them were high school dropouts and more than 50% had some college background, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills