Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

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. 

This planning guide is designed as an interactive tool for initiating or expanding the alignment between existing career and technical education (CTE) and apprenticeship programs.

This research article reports on the results of a survey of adult education teachers about writing instruction.

The documents in this toolkit provide guidance to assist healthcare employers and other workforce development stakeholders register and implement healthcare apprenticeship programs.

This guide addresses topics related to facilitating a seamless transition from school to post-school activities to ensure young adults with disabilities are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to be engaged in the 21st Century Workforce.

This webinar is an introduction to blended learning—a teaching and learning model that combines face-to-face instruction with online learning.

This checklist is designed as a work aid to help determine the extent to which a newly developed or existing program meets the requirements for career pathways in section (3)(7) of WIOA.

These short videos on various occupations provides information such as the knowledge, skills or credentials required.

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.

This study investigated whether five web-based instructional programs increased the capacity of adult basic education (ABE) programs to provide efficient and effective leaning opportunities to adult students.

This paper examines how to best provide teachers with the time, support, and space to learn how to use new technological tools and resources effectively.

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.

A free Open Educational Resource (OER) designed to assist teachers, content creators, Web developers, and others in creating adaptable and personalizable educational resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning styles and individual needs.

This paper describes the characteristics of American workers employed in key service-sector industries who lack foundational skills, highlights promising practices and interventions to help them upskill, and details key federal and state policy levers that foster economic mobility.

This paper presents eight policy recommendations aimed at addressing a projected shortfall in the number of American workers available to fill jobs that require a postsecondary degree or credential.

This review discusses four online articles that provide essential background and useful instructional approaches for teaching digital literacy and digital problem solving in adult basic education classrooms and beyond.

A targeted resource for adult learners interested in exploring the wide range of entry-level career opportunities in health care.

This companion to Health Careers: A Guide to Finding Entry-Level Jobs in Health Care includes teaching suggestions, lessons and activities that will help instructors increase student knowledge about health careers.

This resource offers guidelines to help teachers choose a financial literacy curriculum for their classroom.

This policy brief summarizes Integrated Education and Training (IET), which is a combination of education and job skills training that is used to transition adult learners beyond adult basic education and through a career pathway that can offer them job training and eventual gainful employment.

Results of a national survey of adult education providers to learn more about Integrated Education and Training (IET) models, funding mechanisms, and partnerships across the country.

This guide profiles an array of integrated education and training (IET) programs providing inspiration, models, and lessons for adult educators as they plan or strengthen their own IET programs.

This module introduces the English Language Proficiency Standards for Adult Education and provides an understanding of why and how the standards were selected and how they are organized.

This report details 14 "Building Blocks" of a comprehensive, community-based adult literacy program, identifies the resources needed to fully implement the Building Blocks, and includes an operating budget for a local program implementing this model.