Open Your Classroom with OER

This course is designed as a template, or guide, to help teachers with experience in the Moodle Learning Management System environment to develop a comprehensive online lesson using OERs to deliver instruction. It is not a facilitated course. The course template is designed with a basic structure aligned to a modified TEAL Lesson Plan Builder (using a WIPPEA lesson plan model: warm-up, introduction, presentation, practice, evaluation, and application) that allows teachers to create a usable online resource that learners can access anytime.

Teaching Adult English Learners: Principles and Practices

This course is designed to support teachers new to working with adult English learners, or ELs. After completing the course, participants will be able to identify and apply appropriate instructional strategies for teaching adult ELs. They will also have strengthened their skills as an instructor and be able to implement classroom management practices to optimize learning in both in-person and virtual learning environments.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): From Awareness to Action

This course will help you understand and define what is meant by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the classroom and program. The course will guide you in conducting an equity audit. Classroom equity audits can be conducted and followed through independently or in a group. After completing this course, you will be able to identify steps individuals can take to advance their commitment to DEI progressively from both an individual and a programmatic perspective and identify steps for conducting an equity audit and work toward the sustainability of DEI efforts.

ACP: Building a Bridge to Adult Career Pathways

This course is the second course in the series and is intended for local program administrators. However, state directors, department chairs, deans, academic senates, career development staff, curriculum developers, and other education, workforce, and community professionals will benefit from understanding how this course supports the design of bridge programs and the alignment of curriculum and employment outcomes. While this course may be taken alone, the user may benefit from taking all three ACP courses.

ACP: Building Strategic Partnerships: Engaging Employers

This course is the first in the series of three self-directed courses focusing on adult career pathways and is intended for multiple audiences: State adult education directors, state program managers, state professional development staff, local and regional program administrators, career and technical education state directors; and adult education and english language acquisition instructors with an active interest in developing stakeholder and employer relationships for instructional enhancements and workforce preparation skill building or project- or work-based learning will also benefit

Creating Adult Pre-Apprenticeships

This course has been designed to help adult education providers design new pre-apprenticeships or refine existing programs. It is also intended to support providers who are implementing other similar integrated education and training programs. The content includes examples and resources that are relevant to a range of adult education providers and a variety of industries.

Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit

The IET Toolkit guides you through a team-based approach to developing customized IET solutions that address the needs of adult learners and local businesses. The approach is broken out into four iterative phases: Research and Assess, Design and Plan, Develop and Implement, and Evaluate and Improve. You may choose to review the phases sequentially or navigate to the phase most pertinent to your work.

CCRC: What We Know About Nonacademic Student Supports

2013

This practitioner packet summarizes CCRC and other research on nonacademic student supports, defined as activities and programs that are designed to encourage academic success but that do not deal directly with academic content. 

Family and Community Supporters
Instructional Staff
Student Support Staff

CLASP Webinar: Integrated Education and Training Practice and Policy

2016

This webinar recording features a panel of leading experts from around the country who discuss how IET models are being implemented and provide real examples of the opportunities (and lessons learned) for administrato

Administrators
Business Partners
Policymakers and Implementers
Researchers and Developers
Student Support Staff