The Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL) has created this Compendium to capture a snapshot of the variety of projects currently taking place across the country. The information about each project has been supplied by the lead organization. The projects have been grouped under "themes" rather than by location, timelines or start dates. It…

While plans for adult education programs are forming on a state level, Miami University Middletown (MUM) is developing a new program, Write Now! This program has three goals: (1) to encourage students to complete GEDs (General Educational Development); (2) to encourage those who have earned GEDs to consider postsecondary education; and (3) to…

Senior theater programs can act as catalysts for involvement of senior citizens, promoting self-confidence and fostering creativity. Myths about older people (concerning senility, incompetence, decline in intelligence, learning, rigidity, and retirement) should be recognized as inaccurate stereotypes and as barriers to active and productive lives.…

Describes the adult metric education workshops, instructional materials, and teaching approaches for adults developed by the American College Testing Program in Project Metric to provide the adult consumer with metric skills. Includes an example of objectives from the adult metric kit. (MF)

Describes a workshop which focused on preparing adults for a family life education program in their community. (CM)

Describes the services of the Appalachian Mental Health Center in Elkins, West Virginia. Services include a school for emotionally disturbed teenagers, an Adult Training Center, a preschool for developmental disabilities, a public inebriate shelter, a crisis center for teens, a small prison counseling program, and long-term counseling for drug and…

Intended primarily for students of the Education for the Retirement Years training workshops (University of Oregon Center for Gerontology), this manual for pre-retirement education facilitators is a practical guide to the methodological concepts discussed and demonstrated during the on-campus training. Chapter 1 offers a brief statement on…

The purpose of the 1973 Pilot Literacy Project (Victoria, Australia) was to explore the nature of the problem of nonmigrant adults who had attended school but who considered themselves illiterate or functionally illiterate, to discover what sort of people were illiterate and to what extent, and to examine home influences and educational…

The Tools of the Trade project was undertaken to offer comprehensive job search assistance to adult basic education students in the form of career awareness workshops. The workshops covered the following topics: completing job applications, writing resumes, filling out skill cards, interviewing for a job, analyzing the job market, following up on…

A Creativity Night Festival encourages parents, teachers, and the public to explore a variety of techniques and activities that foster creative thinking and expression. Participants rotate among 20-minute sessions which actively involve them in the creative process. Twenty-one ideas are offered as creative opportunities for the sessions. (JDD)

The purpose of this project was to strengthen a volunteer literacy council's ability to offer an innovative curriculum and program monitoring system that meets the total literacy needs of O-4 level students, thus increasing student and tutor motivation and retention. The project designed volunteer staff training seminars to meet these objectives.…

This annual report of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education highlights the activities undertaken by the Council during Fiscal Year 1987. These activities included the following: (1) co-sponsorship with the University of Pennsylvania of a symposium, "Towards Defining Literacy" (an overview of the work of the symposium is…

This coordinator's report and training manual are materials from a teacher training project for teachers of English to adult speakers of other languages in state-funded adult education programs in central New Jersey. The 14-page report is a personal narrative with no supporting documentation. It covers objectives, the project's educational…

Four alumni programs are described including: an old timers' game which brings back former athletes, alumni association tours, workshops especially for women, and a phonathon for an institution's annual fund campaign. (MLW)

An experimental writing program lasting three years and four months was held in the Chicago Public Library System, for which writers-in-residence, scholars-in- residence, and other program associates presented several series focusing on the city of Chicago. Emphasis during the first year centered on the literary/historical aspect of writing in and…