Resources for Adult Basic Education

Contextualization: Creating Career-Infused Classrooms Biden to Obama

"If you ask us, one of the most promising things happening in philanthropy right now when it comes to fostering more economic opportunity, is the intensifying focus on closing the big mismatch in America between jobs and skills. "

"The National Career Clusters® Framework provides a vital structure for organizing and delivering quality CTE programs through learning and comprehensive programs of study. In total, there are 16 Career Clusters in the National Career Clusters Framework, representing more than 79 Career Pathways to help students navigate their way to greater success in college and career. As an organizing tool for curriculum design and instruction, Career Clusters provide the essential knowledge and skills for the 16 Career Clusters and their Career Pathways. It also functions as a useful guide in developing programs of study bridging secondary and postsecondary curriculum and for creating individual student plans of study for a complete range of career options. As such, it helps students discover their interests and their passions, and empowers them to choose the educational pathway that can lead to success in high school, college and career."

First Look

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015

This Guide comprises three sections. The first - a summary of the key issues - is presented in the form of a set of 'Frequently Asked Questions'. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively. The second section is a more comprehensive analysis of these issues, presented in the form of a traditional research paper. For those who have a deeper interest in OER, this section will assist with making the case for OER more substantively. The third section is a set of appendices, containing more detailed information about specific areas of relevance to OER. These are aimed at people who are looking for substantive information regarding a specific area of interest.

~1.2m IL adults have less than a HS ed. IL Comm College Bd progs served ~82K last year. http://bit.ly/1qsXmo0 Need more $ for #AdultEdu

"Teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs), program administrators, professional development specialists, policy makers, researchers, and other members of the adult ELL educator community, will find new tools and resources here to advance instructional quality and to better serve ELLs. "

"This report addresses the five areas of the 2010 National Eduation Technology Plan produced by the US Office of Education Technology-Learning, Assessment, Teaching, Infrastructure, and Productivity-within the context of adult education."

""It's essential to keep rigorous content standards at the heart of instructional planning, delivery, and evaluation." Christopher Coro, Deputy Director of the Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE)"

""It's essential to keep rigorous content standards at the heart of instructional planning, delivery, and evaluation." Christopher Coro, Deputy Director of the Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE)"

"TAACCCT provides community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs."

"TAACCCT provides community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs."

"This report examines the nature, value, and potential impact of digital badges, an emerging electronic form of recognition of an individual's knowledge and skills."

"This report examines the nature, value, and potential impact of digital badges, an emerging electronic form of recognition of an individual's knowledge and skills."

"This education trends report focuses on two related but distinct challenges confronting state policy leaders and students as they seek to leverage online distance education to meet personal and statewide education goals, namely access to infrastructure and ensuring availability of financial resources."

Recommended by ABE educator to communicate with learners

This is very intriguing to me. Especially for my students who have trouble getting to school. Being able to video message a lesson to my students might keep some of them engaged when life throws them curveballs.

You can use this tool to see the vocabulary frequency of any text. So if you are trying to simplify a text for a remedial reader you can see which vocabulary words need to be simplified first, or scaffolded

Not user friendly, but if you dig its useful.