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City Univ. of New York, Bronx. Herbert H. Lehman Coll. Inst. for Literacy Studies. – 1987
These curriculum materials were collected from teachers in the Lehman College Adult Learning Center (New York). They include various activities and resources, such as a series of questions about the aims of teaching adults, a list of sources for adult basic education (ABE) materials, poems, and autobiographical materials. Teaching suggestions and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Classroom Techniques
Graham, C. Ray; Walsh, Mark M. – 1983
This manual is intended to be a survival guide for newly assigned teachers who have had little or no preservice training in teaching English as a second language (ESL) and who do not have access to such training prior to being assigned. The manual contains a set of beginning and intermediate lessons that can be used for the first 20 to 30 hours of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Citations (References)
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Orlofsky, Diane DeNicola; Smith, Rhenella – Music Educators Journal, 1997
Maintains that adult students have distinctive learning characteristics. Briefly discusses these characteristics, their relationship to learning the musical keyboard, and pedagogical approaches that accommodate these characteristics. Interviews several teachers and recounts their specific techniques. A selected resources list includes methods and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Bright, Jeffrey P.; And Others – 1983
This guide was developed by the Chicago Urban Skills Institute to provide improved instruction in English as a second language (ESL) to adults in the adult learning skills program. The guide provides standardized guidelines for the content of ESL courses and ideas for lesson and course planning. Course content is described for 21 ESL courses which…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives
Shaw, Melvin; And Others – 1984
This guide was developed to meet the needs of the increasingly large number of nonliterate and semiliterate adult English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is suitable for learners who are illiterate or semiliterate in their native languages, or who are literate in a language using a non-Roman alphabet. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives
Davenport, Suzanne, Ed. – 1982
This preservice manual is intended to help new teachers in the field of adult literacy education understand the dimensions of their teaching situation and provide the education their students need. (Adult literacy education includes adult basic education, high school completion, and English as a second language.) Part I defines adult education and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Lamorella, Rose Marie; Cummings, Christina H. – 1988
This document was developed as a resource for implementing the teaching of writing in adult education programs. Based on curriculum, assessment, diagnosis, prescription, instruction, evaluation, and classroom management. The program is presented in a 12-step systematic sequence. The steps are the following: (1) develop/customize/adopt a writing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
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Merrimack Education Center, Chelmsford, MA. – 1985
This directory contains 111 reviews of computer software programs suitable for use in adult basic education, general educational development, and English as a second language (ESL) programs. Each one-page review contains the following information: program title, version, producer, cost, hardware requirements, typical run time, back-up disk,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Schaffer, Deborah L.; Van Duzer, Carol H. – 1984
This document contains five modules for presenting a series of workshops on competency-based education (CBE) to teachers of English as a second language (ESL). Each module consists of the following: competency sheet (including rationale, performance objective, and enabling objectives), background notes and resources, suggested format for a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education
Brevard Community Coll., Cocoa, FL. – 1985
A 310 Special Demonstration Project was conducted in Florida to create a model of competency-based adult education (CBAE) based on the programs currently in existence. This manual, which was produced through the project, presents an overview of CBAE and explains in detail how to operate a CBAE program. The manual is organized in 11 sections. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Rogers, Alan; Cohen-Mitchell, Joanie; Manandhar, Udaya – 2000
This training manual is intended for use as the basis of a training program by a trainer or as a tool for self-directed learning by an independent reader. An introduction (Chapter 1) looks at the user in relation to the training program: who will use the training manual, locating oneself, building on one's relationship with adult literacy learning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Continuing Education. – 1984
Intended for addition to the original catalog, this supplement contains 680 additional indexed and abstracted titles that represent the most current of the professional resources available in adult education. Together with the original catalog, this supplement is an access point to the Community and Continuing Education Information Service (CCEIS)…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Development
Ohio State Commission on Aging, Columbus. – 1981
This resource kit for working with older people consists of an instructor's guide, a package of simulation training materials, and performance-based teacher education modules. Topics covered in the instructor's guide are understanding the common problems of working with older people, selecting problem areas for trainees, developing plans for using…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults