Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

The Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit guides users through a team-based approach to develop customized IET solutions that address the needs of adult learners and local businesses through four iterative phases: Research and Assess, Design and Plan, Develop and Implement, and Evaluate and Improve. Train-the-Trainer materials are also available to support the IET Design process. See the abstract for links.

The TBCAE Toolkit was developed to assist adult education program administrators, program  staff, and state staff in planning and implementing text messaging that supports adult education learners’ program participation and attainment of education outcomes.

Adult English learners (ELs) may need numeracy instruction to navigate daily life or understand health information, so this paper examines numeracy skill levels and home skill use of adult ELs in Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) 2012/2014 data and recommends implications for EL numeracy instruction.

The Self-study Guide for Evidence-Based Practices in Adult Literacy Education helps adult literacy education providers collect, organize, and analyze evidence they can use to plan for and improve program implementation and performance.

This guide is for teachers, tutors, and administrators of programs and schools who provide adult basic skills education and who are hoping to initiate or improve blended learning for their students.

This special edition of the COABE Journal highlights career pathways and workforce development.

This program development guide outlines a step-by-step process to create or sustain an adult citizenship education program and includes products and resources from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for use at each stage of program development.

This paper investigates the role of leadership training in developing voice in adult learners and presents implications for staff and programs to enhance practice by building relationships, fostering community and
collaboration, and encouraging voice through activities.

This module focuses on the task analysis process in relation to content demands, thinking skills, and language use.

This module digs deeper into the English Language Proficiency Standards using the last two steps in the four-step task analysis process that was introduced in Analyzing Student Tasks in Relation to Content Demands, Thinking Skills, and Language Use - Module Two.

This toolkit contains tutorials, templates and sample lessons that help adult educators create documents that use hypertext to help students learn key concepts independently.

This handbook is a practical guide that supports the delivery of quality distance education programming.

The Kentucky Skills U Instructional Technology Framework provides a common instructional technology foundation for comprehensive, assessment-aligned instructional support for adult educators. 

This mathematics content framework provides comprehensive, assessment-aligned support to adult educators and identifies instructional materials that have been aligned with the Data Recognition Corporation TABE 11/12 Blueprints and the GED Testing Service GED High Impact Indicators.

This flyer highlights LINCS resources of interest to adult educators. 

This flyer highlights LINCS resources of interest to adult educators working in career pathways or workforce development. 

This flyer highlights resources of interest to correctional and reentry education instructors and stakeholders. 

This flyer highlights LINCS resources of interest to adult educators who teach individuals with learning disabilities. 

This flyer highlights resources of interst to educators teaching English language acquisition.

This flyer highlights the LINCS components.

The LINCS Quick Reference Guides highlights applicable LINCS components and resources for five LINCS audiences.

Online lessons and practices designed to help instructors teach and foster adaptive beliefs about learning.

This presentation describes how math anxiety affects learners and specific techniques to help ease and overcome these effects.

Supplemental videos and materials for Advance Unit 3, designed to help adult educators implement the instructional advances required by CCR standards. 

Supplemental videos and materials for Advance Unit 3 - Math, designed to help adult educators implement the instructional advances required by CCR standards.