Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection
Explore a collection of 838 high-quality multimedia instructional resources, informed by research, for use by adult educators. These resources have been reviewed by subject matter experts and recommended and approved by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), Division of Adult Education and Literacy. Search the collection by category, keyword, date and more.
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Defining On-Ramps to Adult Career Pathways
2017
This report synthesizes survey and interview data with a limited literature review to identify key service model delivery components, system components and barriers to implementing service way program models.
Administrators
Policymakers and Implementers
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Facilitating Intentional Group Learning
2017
This guide is designed to help a wide array of professionals better understand how and when to use group learning activities to intentionally support and facilitate continuous learning through reflection and dialogue.
Administrators
Teacher Trainers
Policymakers and Implementers
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Pathways, Partnerships, and Progress: Transforming a Community College
2017
This report describe the methods that were used by Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC) and the University of Southern California's Center for Urban Education (CIE) to build the Pathways to Academic, Career, and Transfer Success (PACTS) initiative, which created career academic pathways for students.
Administrators
Teacher Trainers
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Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education
2017
Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education aligns the role of technology serving the needs of a diverse group of students seeking access to high-quality postsecondary learning experiences.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
Policymakers and Implementers
Teacher Trainers
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The Case for Investment in Adult Basic Education
2017
This paper provides stakeholders with the data needed to prove that support of Adult Basic Skills programs results in a strong return that impacts both the adult learner and society as a whole.
Administrators
Policymakers and Implementers
Researchers and Developers
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Adult Educators and Local WIOA Planning
2016
This fact sheet highlights opportunities for adult educators to engage with partners across the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) system to ensure that planning and implementation under the new law is responsive to the needs of adult learners, and makes effective use of adult education partners’ expertise.
Administrators
Policymakers and Implementers
Instructional Staff
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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
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Future Skills Update and Literature Review
2016
This paper explores the work skills that will be needed in the future and the ways in which educational institutions will need to more fully integrate them into workforce training.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
Teacher Trainers
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Reentry Education Tool Kit
2016
This collection of guidelines, tools and resources is designed to help education providers and their partners create a reentry education continuum for formerly incarcerated adults.
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The Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative: Phase One Research Results
2016
This report provides the findings of an evaluation of Arkansas’s Career Pathways Initiative, which provides education and training to low-income Arkansans helping them to acquire degrees and/or certificates to obtain and hold jobs in selected high-demand and high-wage industries.
Administrators
Policymakers and Implementers
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WIOA Wednesday: Performance Accountability, Parts 1 & 2
2016
This two-part webinar provides stakeholders with a better understanding of the performance accountability provisions in section 116 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the accompanying regulation.
Policymakers and Implementers
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Adult Education Teacher Competencies
2015
The Adult Education Teacher Competencies are designed to identify the knowledge and skills needed by adult education teachers to improve student learning and performance.
Administrators
Teacher Trainers
Policymakers and Implementers
Instructional Staff
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Annotated Bibliography
2015
The Annotated Bibliography is intended to be a resource for anyone who is interested in learning more about the research that is most relevant to the Promoting Teacher Effectiveness in Adult Education project.
Administrators
Teacher Trainers
Instructional Staff
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Conditions for Success in Teacher Induction
2015
This brief identifies the conditions within an adult education program that increase the likelihood of success of an induction process in having a positive impact on beginning teacher performance.
Administrators
Teacher Trainers
Instructional Staff
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Mentoring Guide for Teacher Induction
2015
The Mentoring Guide for Teacher Induction provides specific guidance and resources for mentoring beginning teachers in adult education and for using the Adult Education Teacher Induction Toolkit.
Administrators
Teacher Trainers
Policymakers and Implementers
Instructional Staff