Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

Illinois Community College Board, Division of Adult Education & Literacy, has designed several comprehensive model contextualized curricula, which includes instructions for use, supplemental materials, lesson plans, and related resources. 

This brief explains what health literacy skills are and why they are important.

This toolkit provides communication techniques for facilitating a healthy living program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

The ESOL Tutor Resource Pack includes resources for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutors to use with learners who are in prison or who have had recent experience with the criminal justice system. 

Although developed for immigrant populations living in New York City, We Speak NYC videos can be adapted to serve all ELLs, as they help English language learners improve their language skills, learn about their rights, and access city services.

A repository of standards-based units and lessons created by Kentucky Adult Education instructors.

The Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education provides a forum for sharing research, information, theory, commentary, and practical experiences that will improve the quality of services for adult basic education, literacy, and numeracy learners.

This meta-analysis review from the field of discipline-based education research contains insights on how students learn science and engineering and how to design instructional strategies that build on these insights.

This report revises and reinvigorates previously developed goals from the 2011 National Research Council (NRC) report titled Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in STEM to expand the STEM workforce by targeting individuals who are least likely to pursue STEM careers.

This webpage from Stanford University is a collection of several resources for science educators interested in the intersection between the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 

This framework aims to help students learn basic science content knowledge while developing their reading, writing, and analytical skills.

Also available in Spanish: http://energy.gov/eere/energia

This study explores English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classrooms as a site for health literacy interventions.

This is an English learner's guide to health care and healthy living. 

Staying Healthy for Beginners is a curriculum that seeks to enhance students' understanding of health information, while at the same time improving their English language and literacy skills. The resource is a beginner’s addition to the original Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living. 

This article focuses on the use—and the lack of use—of health literacy within efforts to address public health in the United States.

The Clean Energy Ambassadors Curriculum Resource Guide is a collection of materials, lessons and activities that adult educators can use to integrate clean energy concepts into their curricula.

The purpose of this practitioner's guide is to inform practitioners about the current descriptions of health literacy and the relevance of this topic to adult education and family literacy practices.

This document presents the 2013 Life Science Strand of the Massachusetts ABE Science Framework.

One Ocean was developed to support teachers in teaching topics with real-world context, and provide them with the background to feel competent and comfortable when teaching about the ocean. 

Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension's major health finance initiative is Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ (SSHW). This program is designed to motivate consumers to implement behavior change strategies that simultaneously improve their health and personal finances. SSHW includes the following resources: book chapters, behavior change strategies, motivational messages, multimedia, posters, research, and journal articles. 

Website that provide quality teaching and learning in math and science using data.

The resource presents a lesson plan at four skill levels for teaching English learners how to describe physical pain to healthcare providers.

This framework identifies the key scientific ideas and practices adults should have to engage in public discussions on science-related issues, be careful consumers of scientific and technical information, and enter the careers of their choice.

Drawing on a literature and program review, analysis of publicly available data, and consultations with experts in the field, this report examines opportunities for women and student parents to pursue and succeed in STEM fields at community colleges.