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Bowes, S. Gregory – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1982
Indicates that staff development is a fundamental part of adult basic education. Describes a staff development program used in New Mexico and makes recommendations for other programs. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions
Download full textColorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Dept. of Education. – 1975
Project ACT (Adult Competency Training) was a United States Office of Education staff development project in Region 8 from 1972 to 1975, implementing a self-generating and self-supporting staff system to help adult educators become better prepared to serve their clients. The project served Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Programs, Individualized Instruction
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1985
This digest describes types of statewide programs for the training of adult educators. Eight types of programs involving 19 states are outlined, and contacts for each are given. These programs are included: Michigan Staff Development Collaborative, the Iowa Community College Telenetwork (or Telenet), Virginia Consultant Training Institute to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, English (Second Language)
Hurley, Mary; Ray, Karen – 1983
This paper describes a successful facilitator training model, developed as part of an Adult Basic/Continuing Education (AB/CE) staff development program in Minnesota. The following topics are included: (1) the new basics and what is taught in the Minnesota AB/CE programs; (2) how these new basics are taught, emphasizing Malcolm Knowles' model of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Basic Skills, Continuing Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Basic Continuing Education. – 1973
A project was designed to demonstrate that the inservice education of adult basic education teachers could be individualized. To accomplish this objective, the project (1) developed a self-instructional training course for teachers of English as a Second Language to adults, (2) used these course materials as the basis for training (on an…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, English (Second Language), Individualized Instruction
Boyet, Robert W., Comp.; And Others – 1974
The report contains summaries and materials describing the second year of a Louisiana project to train teachers of reading for illiterate adults. Meeting a major objective, the project increased the number of State colleges and universities offering credit courses in adult education to 10, for a total of 27 courses enrolling 716 local adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Annual Reports, Budgets
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1975
The 3-year Region 10 Program was designed to develop a cooperative network of sharing and resources among states in the region. Although, during the program, specific objectives and activities considerably changed as a response to the new knowledge and conditions which the Program identified, some general characteristics and outcomes which were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Educational Objectives
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Dept. of Education. – 1974
The third-year report of the regional staff development system of the Adult Competency Training Project (Project ACT) examines and evaluates the events, activities, and accomplishments of Individualized Training Programs (ITP), regional policy board meetings, staff and participant travel, and planning during FY 1974. Present and anticipated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Annual Reports, Competency Based Teacher Education
Schechter, Daniel S. – 1974
The book describes the Hospital Continuing Education Project, a nine-year endeavor concluded in 1972 which set up a communications network among universities, hospital associations, hospitals, and individual educators and trainees. The project's goal was the expansion of continuing education opportunities for personnel in health care institutions.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Allied Health Occupations Education
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Dept. of Education. – 1973
The report describes the project's design, initial efforts, and revised objectives toward the development of a regional adult staff development system. Three elements were perceived to be essential to such a system: a regional consortium organization to effectively implement competency-based adult staff development programs, State-by-State and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Community Involvement, Competency Based Teacher Education
Sherman, Renee Z.; And Others – 1991
This report is designed as a guide for policymakers and practitioners interested in designing more effective staff development practices. It provides information about elements of effective staff development practices identified through a review of research and site visits to nine staff development programs identified as providing effective…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Course Content, Delivery Systems
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Dept. of Education. – 1974
The second-year report describes Project ACT (Adult Competency Training) efforts from July 1, 1973 to June 30, 1974 to develop a regional staff development system. Three elements were perceived to be essential: a regional consortium organization to effectively implement ACT programs, State-by-State and region-wide; a multi-dimensional trainer…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Annual Reports, Community Involvement
Montclair State Coll., Upper Montclair, NJ. Adult Continuing Education Center. – 1974
The document consists of 1973-74 interim reports reflecting staff development activities for adult educators in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The New Jersey report describes the Competency-Based Certification Project for Adult Educators; the Language-Culture Institute, Rutgers University; and the English as a Second…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
Kegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2001
How do ABE/ESOL (Adult Basic Education/English for Speakers of Other Languages) programs shape adult learners, and how do adult learners, in turn, shape their programs? Beyond the acquisition of important skills (such as greater fluency in the English language) what are the bigger internal meanings for adults of participating in ABE/ESOL…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
