Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

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.

This issue brief, one of the resources in the suite of materials “Preparing English Learners for Work and Career,” provides teachers and administrators with an overview of current research and practice related to connecting English language acquisition to career pathways.

This research is aimed towards the development of a European key competency profile for the adult learning professionals working in correctional criminal justice system, based on key competences for adult learning professionals, national researches in partner countries conducted on relevant stakeholders and European analysis of available materials on topic developed in other LLP initiatives.

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 examines the implementation of the Reentry Education Model at three demonstration sites and identifies key lessons for linking correctional and reentry education programs.

This interactive tool helps instructors diagnose classroom problems, think about possible causes, and explore solutions.

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). 

The main goal of the project, “is to inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on math learning into accessible and practical forms.” The site provides research-based methods, tasks, videos, and ideas which aim to inspire teachers and empower students.

The Teacher Effectiveness Glossary provides definitions of the acronyms and terms found throughout the Adult Education Teacher Induction Toolkit, including the online courses, guides, and information briefs. It is helpful for every step of the Teacher Induction Pathway. 

This brief provides an introduction to and overview of what teacher induction is and what the process involves.

This brief describes important components of mentoring programs within teacher induction.

The Teacher Induction Pathway provides a quick visual framework for teacher induction process of inducting a beginning teacher, including those who are teaching a new content area or implementing a program’s new priority initiativee. 

This resource can be used for teaching English letter-sound patterns or phonics.

This resource looks particularly at different activities and strategies to enhance classroom cohesion. 

The resource explores students' mindsets and how it affects how they learn math. It also identifies core teaching principles and provides teaching materials to support those principles. 

This resource looks at suggested professional development activities for social studies, science, mathematics, and other content areas. 

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

The Social Studies: Integrating Reading & Writing Curriculum Framework incorporates U.S. history, basic economics and civics concepts, and geography, using the U.S. timeline as an organizing principle, or “backbone.”

This website introduces employers and educators to the value of partnering, presents best practices and success stories, and provides links to evidence-based tools for building and sustaining partnerships and creating career pathways.

This report breaks down the results of the 2011 PIAAC Survey, which assessed the cognitive and workplace skills needed for success in the 21st-century global economy.

The Council of the Great City Schools is a membership organization of 67 of the nations’ largest urban public school districts