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Capen, Mary Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative semi-structured open-ended protocol research study provided information on middle school general educators' perceptions of barriers impeding completion of training on the FBA/PBIP, and the methods they perceived that could remove the barriers from the perspective of general educators as self-directed adult learners. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Qualitative Research
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Tan, Fujuan – Adult Learning, 2009
Being an international English as a Second Language (ESL) graduate student from China studying in the U.S., the author has undergone various types of transformation. Taking her first online course is one poignant example in which multiple layers of transformation occurred. In hopes of easing the transformation of other international ESL students…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Online Courses, Adult Students
Tran, Thu Hoang – Online Submission, 2009
This literature review looks at the impacts of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 on English language learners (ELLs), educators and schools. A brief overview of the current state of English as a second language teaching for adult learners will first be described. Then the importance of the enactment of the NCLB of 2001 is mentioned. Both…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning
Smith, Cristine; Harris, Kathryn; Reder, Stephen – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2005
This brief is written for the practitioners: teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum writers, and program administrators who work with adult English language students in English as a second language (ESL) classes or in mixed adult basic education ABE classes (with native English speakers and English language learners). If educators are not…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Second Language Learning, Teachers, English (Second Language)
Louisiana Department of Education, 2006
The Louisiana Literacy Plan is designed to address the learning needs of all students in grades PK-Adult Education in order to improve the literacy rates of students in the state, thereby developing a more literate and capable citizenry for the future. Connecting this plan to the No Child Left Behind Act, Louisiana seeks to close the achievement…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Professional Development, Literacy Education, State Programs