Timely
Topics: A Collection of Articles from Literacy Links
Table of
Contents
Introduction
Foreward
Advisory
Board Forward
Part
One: Good Practices in Adult Literacy Education
Learner,
Family Member, Parent: Making Adult Education Relevant for the Many
Roles of Adult Students
Elizabeth Breaux
Thompson
Students
in Action: Finding and Learning, Doing and Learning
Laura Molina
The
Challenge of Teens in the Adult Education Classroom
Harriet Vardiman
Smith
A
Review of Nine Effective Practices in Adult Education and Literacy
Classrooms
Barbara J.
Baird
Legal & Ethical
Issues in Assessment & Placement
Emily Payne
Part Two: Literacy and Work
Programs
Regear to Meet Workplace and Workforce Literacy Needs
Kay Taggart
Best
Practices in Workforce Education
Anna Macias
Connecting
Jobs to the Classroom
Ann Savino
The
Cutting Edge: A Workplace Communications Model
Luz E. Taboada
The
Continuum of Language, Literacy, Civics, and Workforce Development:
Nothing Supports Literacy and Community Like Gainful Employment!
Barbara Tondre-El
Zorkani
Transitioning
to the World of Work
Mary Helen
Martinez
Building
Partnerships for Collaboration in Workplace Literacy
Ann Savino
Part Three:
Learning and Assessment
Project-Based
Learning: Don't Dictate, Collaborate!
Louise Sanders
Family
Literacy & Project-Based Learning Go Hand in Hand
Audrey Abed
Assessing
Adult Learners Through Project-Based Learning Instruction
Kyle Family
Learning & Career Center
Important
Issues in Teaching Adult Learners: Assessment
Anne L. Ensle
The
Assessment Superhighway: Tests (standardized and non), Curriculum
Based, Competency Based, Portfolios, Norm Referenced, Criterion Referenced,
Formal, Informal, blah, blah, blah . . versus The Road Less Traveled:
Self-Assessment Or: The Importance of Self-Assessment by Students
Stacy Weaver
Learner
Assessment
Heide Spruck
Wrigley and Gloria J. A. Guth
ESL
Classroom Projects: Steps to Meaningful Learning
Lori Northrop
Part Four: Collaboration
Community
Partnerships – Tapping the Resources
Barbara Gosnell
Count
on Collaboration
Stacy Weaver
Too
Many Cooks a Problem? Not in Even Start!
Brenda Faz-Villarreal
Free
Stuff, Good P.R. and Cash
Bob Quillin
Engaging
Communities in Lifelong Learning and the Pursuit of Economic Self
Sufficiency
Jon Engel
A
Happy Kitchen
John A. Wooley
Something
to Think About: A Student Generated Project That Reaches Into the
Community
Anson Green
Dress
for Success Fashion Show
Eufemia N.
Rangel
Collaboration
... a Paradigm Shift in Adult Education
Jeanni Pruitt
 
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