Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from Early Implementation of the TSTM Framework
The TSTM implementation study was designed to inform the development of TSTM-SkillBlox by helping us understand the needs and experiences of the teachers already implementing TSTM-aligned instruction and explores teachers’ efforts, promising practices, and considerations or challenges in using and scaling up TSTM-aligned instruction.
The Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM)-SkillBlox Instructional Support Pilot (TSTM-SkillBlox pilot project) is a collaboration of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and World Education, a division of JSI (WE) to develop and pilot test instructional resources aligned with the TSTM framework. Developed as part of a national initiative of the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), the TSTM framework focuses on skills, topics, and teaching approaches intended to improve the persistence of adult learners by helping them connect what they are learning with their educational and employment goals. The findings from this study—including promising practices and lessons learned in supporting TSTM-aligned instruction—are presented in this resource and are intended to shape TSTM-SkillBlox development but may also inform efforts in the field to support TSTM implementation.
Adult educators will be able to use TSTM-SkillBlox to find, organize, adapt, and share free TSTM-aligned content with other teachers and with learners.
This brief highlights key findings from the first component of the project—an implementation study of the TSTM framework.
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