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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Expecting the Best
2009
This resource is a wellness curriculum for English as a Second Language (ESL) students.
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FDIC Money Smart-A Financial Education Program
2009
The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) has developed Money Smart to help adults outside the financial mainstream enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships.
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Getting Ahead – Staying Ahead
2009
A report from the Business Roundtable on helping Americans obtain the knowledge and skills they need to compete and succeed in the global economy.
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Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom
2009
Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom is a ready-to-use, flexible curriculum that adult educators can use to incorporate career awareness and planning into their instructional and counseling activities.
Adult Learners
Instructional Staff
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Language for Work: CLB and Essential Skills for Trainers
2009
This guidebook was developed to help immigrants meet employment goals in the Canadian workplace by enhancing the understanding of Essential Skills (ES) for facilitators who work with immigrants.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
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Learning for LIFE: An ESL Literacy Handbook
2009
Designed for instructors, program coordinators, and other stakeholders in ESL literacy, this handbook from Alberta, Canada, primarily intends to be a practical handbook, outlining promising practices in program considerations, strategies for the classroom, and four different levels of ESL literacy.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
Teacher Trainers
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Module 3: Communicating Success to Stakeholders
2009
This three-hour, self-paced course was designed for use by volunteers, teachers and program administrators in the field of ABE who are interested in learning how to effectively use data to identify and/or clarify their program’s mission and highlight its success.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
Policymakers and Implementers
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PEP Talk: Personal Employment Planning System
2009
This resource contains both evidence-based research and practice-based materials that can help guide the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of career pathways programs.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
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Pre-Nursing Curriculum (College Bridge)
2009
This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.
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Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Outcomes
2009
Achieving the Dream, a national initiative to improve student success in community colleges, has taken a multipronged approach to improving outcomes in developmental education. This issue brief describes how the fifteen participating states have concentrated their policy efforts on four key areas: preventative strategies, assessment and placement, implementation and evaluation of program innovation, and performance measurement and incentives.
Administrators
Instructional Staff
Policymakers and Implementers
Teacher Trainers