Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This brief describes innovative, remote adult ESOL program practices and designs based on interviews with staff from 34 adult ESOL programs across the US about their use of digital technologies for onboarding, instruction, and supports to diverse ESOL learners.

Each case study highlights notable practices in remote ESOL instruction and administration from eight programs that represent the diverse range of organizations that offer adult ESOL across the US.

This site includes information on promising remote adult ESOL practices and program models.

This guide is for teachers, tutors, and administrators of programs and schools who provide adult basic skills education and who are hoping to initiate or improve blended learning for their students.

This course was designed for education providers and practitioners teaching adult basic academic skills, ESOL, and literacy at a distance and/or through blended learning; it provides strategies and resources that are essential for both setting up and implementing distance education or teaching with a blended approach.

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. 

This open-access version of the Northstar Digital Literacy Project assessments can be used for assessing digital literacy skills to inform instruction.

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 brief describes how adult learning theory can be applied in the design of age appropriate digital learning experiences.

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.

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 guide provides suggested classroom tasks that combine the academic knowledge and skills described by the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education with behaviors and composite skills needed to succeed in college, workplace, and civic life (essential competencies).

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 paper briefly describes constructive developmental theories of adulthood, implications for academic language and critical thinking, and outlines developmentally scaffolded learning activities.

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition, examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry within the environment of higher education.

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 toolkit addresses the challenge of properly serving the skilled immigrant population and introduces solutions to some of the most pressing problems this group experiences; it introduces best practices from the field and a directory of successful programs dedicated to serving the needs of skilled immigrants.

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.

Coping with Stress: A Special Addition to Staying Healthy – An English Learner's Guide to Health Care and Healthy is a special addition to the Staying Healthy: An English Learner's Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living curriculum. This resource is an introduction to stress and stress management. 

 This Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA) Network Brief addresses the importance of and the research supporting the use of student-centered instructional practices in the adult English language learner classroom.

This health literacy curriculum was developed through Queens Library for use with ESOL Learners.