Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This revised Career Pathways Toolkit: A Guide for System Development features Six Key Elements of Career Pathways that help to guide local and state teams through the essential components necessary for developing a comprehensive career pathways system. 

This report summarizes responses to a request for information about career pathways systems, including respondent-identified facilitators and barriers to career pathways development and implementation as well as promising practices.

This site shows how to incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into curriculum, as well as learn about UDL and explore resources related to it. 

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.

Examination of digital literacy acquisition learning experiences designed to prepare prisoners for re-entry (a case study)

This field experiment looks at the effectiveness of sending text messages to reduce adult student attrition. 

This report describes the current status of educational technology in corrections, existing and emerging approaches to providing such services in facilities, and the successes and challenges of early implementers.

EQuIP (Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products) is an initiative of Achieve designed to identify high-quality materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

The study sought to determine the percentage of workforce students who may need to strengthen their understanding of the part-whole concept by using the same number line assessment.

This brief describes evidence-based instruction and how it can be used within teacher induction.

These learning plans, designed for teachers and tutors, facilitate the teaching of financial literacy to adult ESL learners.

This webinar and supplemental activities provide information and teaching strategies for instruction on paraphrasing evidence for the GED Writing test.

This report explores the latest research around how decision-making and actions are influenced by poverty and outlines research-driven strategies that workforce providers can use to help workers become more self-sufficient.

This webinar showcases some of the innovations in implementing CCR standards.

These project-based lesson ideas for adult students improve their skills in using technology to solve problems and communicate with others, while increasing their digital literacy skills and access to technology.

This issue brief, one of the resources in the suite of materials “Integrating Digital Literacy into English Language Instruction,” presents a broad overview of digital literacy as it relates to adult learners in English language acquisition programs.

Interactivate is a set of free, interactive online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics

These videos from a professional career counselor help with interview skills.

These video segments from a KET professional development session are focused on broad math teaching practices that are appropriate for math teachers at all levels. 

This guide provides specific guidance and resources for the instructional leader to guide and support the efforts of the mentor and beginning teacher for success in teacher induction and using the Adult Education Teacher Induction Toolkit (http://lincs.ed.gov/programs/teachereffectiveness/toolkit).

This publication series, Learning for Life: The Opportunity for Technology to Transform Adult Education, explores technology readiness, access, and use within various adult education delivery channels.

The Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) provides tools for formative and summative assessment to assess students’ mathematical knowledge and reasoning, helping teachers guide them towards improvement and monitor student progress. 

This issue brief, one of the resources in the suite of materials “Meeting the Language Needs of Today’s Adult English Language Learner,” presents an overview of the need for increased rigor in all English language acquisition programs.

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.

This guide describes the classes of a number of distance education teachers who have adjusted their courses to incorporate college and career ready skills, enriching the online experience for students.