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