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21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs: A Report of the US Departments of Commerce, Education, and Labor, the National Institute for Literacy, and the Small Business Administration. (January, 1999). This report was issued in conjunction with a satellite summit hosted by Vice President Al Gore. Its subject was the new challenges for employers and workers that are created by global competition, the Internet, and the widespread use of technology. FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. (374.013 USDC)

Abilities and Competencies in Adulthood: Life-Span Perspectives on Workplace Skills. Smith, Jacqui, and Marsiske, Michael. (1994). This report examines the relationship between intelligence and adult basic skills within the framework of developmental and cognitive psychology. (640 Smi)

Access, Participation and Progress: Excerpts of Interest to Adult Education and Family Literacy Providers, from The Condition of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. (1998). This document includes excerpts from a report covering all areas of education nationally. Some of the topics are: Early Literacy Experiences; Participation in Adult Education; Recent School Dropouts; Racial and Ethnic Differences in Participation in Higher Education; and Community College Outcomes. Extensive statistical data is presented in the form of tables and charts, which are potentially useful for developing funding proposals, needs assessments, or other reports. FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. Also available online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/ (370.72 NCES)

Adult ESL Learner Outcomes Curriculum: With NEW SCANS Supplement (revised). ESOL Project, Texas A & M University-Kingsville. Developed and field tested in 1991 and 1992, this curriculum has been expanded to incorporate the SCANS Competencies and a new section on Assessment. The SCANS Supplement offers: Introduction to SCANS; Implications for Instruction; Thematic Units (Career Exploration, Balancing Job and Personal Life, Problem Solving at Work, and Communication on the Job); Sample Lesson Plans; and Appendices (Learning Style Inventory, Cooperative Learning Strategies, and Detailed Definitions of SCANS Foundation Skills and Competencies). FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. (428.007 ESOL)

Assessing Adult Learning in Diverse Settings: Current Issues and Approaches. Rose, Amy D. and Leahy, Meredyth A. Number 75 in the New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education series. This issue addresses the concerns of assessing adult students. The contributors discuss issues such as the principles of assessment in adult basic education and workplace education. (374.02 NDACE Ros97)

Beginning a Literacy Program. Woods, Nancy. (1987). This document is an overview of the major aspects involved in beginning a new literacy program (Assessing the Need; Building a Program; Money Matters; Recruitment; Promotion; and Training). FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. (374.29 Woo BLP)

Beginning a Workplace Literacy Program. Woods, Nancy. (1999). This short document is an overview of the major aspects involved in beginning a new workplace literacy program. FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. (374.29 Woo BWLP)

Breaking the Cycle: Literacy Pays. Coors Brewing Company. (1995). This video tells the stories of three women who have moved from under-education, low-paying jobs or welfare to quality employment through women's educational and vocational programs. The stories of the women provide clear examples of the intergenerational impacts when mothers invest in their own future through education. (649.58 CBC)

Career Development with Latina Women. Hendon, Sarah. Ed. (1996). This material is meant to provide instructors with supplementary background information, handouts, and activities to better address the needs of Latina women participating in career development programs. (374.013 Hen)

Dilemma in the Workplace. Pomeroy, Jo. 1997. This interactive program develops reading comprehension and vocabulary, enhances awareness of dilemmas in the workplace, and promotes critical thinking skills and sound decision making. Reading levels range from 4.0 through 8.5 and topics are of interest to adults. Four units each have contain four stories. Each story represents a realistic workplace situation in which the main characters are faced with a problem. Dilemmas in the stories can spark discussion, sharing of opinions, and critical thinking skill development. [For loan/trial use only (not to be copied), the loan set includes one CD-ROM and a User's/Teacher's Guide.] (371.39445 TBS Pom)

Exceeding Expectations: Successful Adults with Learning Disabilities. Reiff, Henry B. et al. (1997). This book is divided into four parts: A Lifetime of Being Learning Disabled; Creating a Context; A Conceptual Framework of Employment Success; and Implications for Practice. The authors have developed ways to help adults with learning disabilities in the workplace. They also have incorporated success stories of adults with learning disabilities. (370.152 Rei)

Get That Job! Series. Roderman, Winifred Ho and McDavid, Susan. (1998). This series comes with instructor's guide and 8 workbooks, and is designed to help adults improve their communication skills to successfully find jobs. Through job-search strategies and role-playing, students learn to organize and use their job-hunting skills. Based on the SCANS Competencies. Some of the workbook themes are: Work Experience Inventory; Finding Job Openings; Filling Out Job Applications; Writing Letters and Resumes; Getting Ready for Interviews; and Job Hunting with the Telephone. (370.113 Rod)

Getting There: A Curriculum for People Moving Into Employment. Colette, Marian et al. (1996). Developed with funding from the Kentucky Cabinet for Workforce Development and published by the Center for Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, this curriculum is designed to meet the needs of adult students who are trying to make the transition from welfare to work or to further education. The curriculum is learner-centered and participatory, drawing content from daily experiences of the learners and is designed to encourage learners to develop more self-confidence, critical thinking, and skills for solving daily problems. Basic skills included in the curriculum are reading, writing, math, and communication with units built around content areas instead of only skills. FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. (375 Col)

Investing in People. Jobs for the Future. (1995). The IIP program emphasizes group process and group learning to help states create workforce development systems. There are three booklets titled: Is Your State Working; Adult Workers; and Workforce Development. These reports examine the best current studies on what needs to be done to reshape our work environment and outlines the principles they suggest for designing better systems. (374.013 JOB)

Job Savvy: How to be a Success at Work: Student Book and Teacher's Guide. Ludden, LaVerne L. (1998). The author covers thirteen basic areas of job success such as employment relationship, making a good impression, learning on the job, meeting the customer's expectations, and problem-solving skills. Each chapter has several reading selections and exercises for each reading selection. A teacher's guide is also included. (640 Lud)

Job Survival Skills. Brewner, Margaret M. et al. (1996). A basic workbook covering a variety of topics on job survival skills. Some of the topics are attendance, cooperation, the telephone, stress, and goal-setting. Each section has several different types of activities. (370.113 Bre)

Learn to Earn: An Interactive Teleconference. Knell, Suzanne. (1997). This is a videotape of a teleconference aired on September 17, 1997, funded by the Literacy Leader Fellowship Project through National Institute for Literacy. Handouts are also included. The teleconference discussed typical and alternative welfare-to-work program models. Aspects discussed included assessment, pre-employment services, retention, and the ultimate goal of stable employment. (344.08 Kne)

Learning Disabilities and Employment. Gerber, Paul J. and Brown, Dale S. (1997). The authors divide this book into four sections: Employment of People with Learning Disabilities: The Big Picture; Training Persons with Learning Disabilities for Employment; Workplace Issues; and Experiences in the Workplace. A variety of topics are covered in these sections. Some of the topics addressed are legal rights, preparing for employment, learning disabilities, job accommodations, and personal stories. (370.152 Ger)

Learning Faster, Learning Smarter: The Functional Context Education Approach to Economic Self-Sufficiency: A How-to-do-it Manual. Precure, Agnes.(1997). The first three chapters explain functional context education and its purpose. Chapter Four explains how to implement functional context in an existing program. The last part of the text has ten sample lessons. Some of the lessons are titled: The Digger: Assertive Behavior in the Workplace; Monthly Expenses and a Target Wage; and Parents as Teachers. (640 Pre)

Literacy and Welfare Reform: Are We Making the Connection? Cohen, Elena, et al.(1994). This report discusses the relationship between adult literacy and welfare reform. It concludes that the diversity of the welfare population is a crucial factor in the creation of welfare reform programs. Three broad groups of welfare recipients are identified based on skill levels, each group requiring solutions designed specifically for them. The report recommends intensive, individualized, family-based programs which combine job training with literacy instruction. (374.013 Coh)

Math in the Workplace: Using Graphs, Charts, and Tables. (1997). Geoffrey, Lynn. Math in the Workplace is a series of interactive skills-development and tutorial programs designed to motivate students by providing practical job-related mathematics activities. Each program uses applied math involving agriculture and agribusiness, building trades, business and marketing, health occupations, home economics, and industrial technology. [For loan/trial use only (not to be copied), the loan set includes one CD-ROM and a User's/Teacher's Guide.] (371.39445 TBS Geo)

Project Metamorphosis: A Corrections Curriculum Integrating Basic Skills, Job Skills, and Cognitive Skills: Volume 6: "Finding and Keeping a Job" Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. (1998). This curriculum integrates basic skills for inmates and is part of a project from the Life Skills for Prisoners grant. Resources and reading are included for each session, as well as software recommendations and correlation with work, academic, and personal goals. This is one volume of a 13 volume, 100-hour curriculum in development, which is also available online at Project Metamorphosis FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. (365.66 LDP)

A Quick and Easy Guide: Get That Job! Oppliger, Jurg. (1997). This book provides information that can give people more control over their job search. The information will help the reader plan and carry out his/her job search more successfully. (370.117 Opp)

Reading In the Workplace: Automotive. Davis, Beverly et al. (1998). This job-based reading program uses real-life situations to capture the students' attention and improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills. The program individualized instruction with immediate feedback and positive reinforcement at a rate controlled by the individual learner. Each unit contains 16 stories that address language arts development in four major skill areas: main idea, details, inference/conclusion, and vocabulary. [For loan/trial use only (not to be copied), the loan set includes one CD-ROM and User's/Teacher's Guide.] (371.39445 TBS Dav Auto)

Reading In the Workplace: Clerical. Davis, Beverly et al. (1998). This job-based reading program uses real-life situations to capture the students' attention and improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills. The program individualized instruction with immediate feedback and positive reinforcement at a rate controlled by the individual learner. Each unit contains 16 stories that address language arts development in four major skill areas: main idea, details, inference/conclusion, and vocabulary. [For loan/trial use only (not to be copied), the loan set includes one CD-ROM and a User's/Teacher's Guide.] (371.39445 TBS Dav Cler)

Reading In the Workplace: Construction. Davis, Beverly et al. (1998). This job-based reading program uses real-life situations to capture the students' attention and improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills. The program individualized instruction with immediate feedback and positive reinforcement at a rate controlled by the individual learner. Each unit contains 16 stories that address language arts development in four major skill areas: main idea, details, inference/conclusion, and vocabulary. [For loan/trial use only (not to be copied), the loan set includes one CD-ROM and a User's/Teacher's Guide.] (371.39445 TBS Dav Const)

Reading In the Workplace: Health. Davis, Beverly et al. (1998). This job-based reading program uses real-life situations to capture the students' attention and improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills. The program individualized instruction with immediate feedback and positive reinforcement at a rate controlled by the individual learner. Each unit contains 16 stories that address language arts development in four major skill areas: main idea, details, inference/conclusion, and vocabulary. [For loan/trial use only (not to be copied), the loan set includes one CD-ROM and a User's/Teacher's Guide.] (371.39445 TBS Dav Health)

Read to Work Series. Dutwin, Phyllis. (1997). Read to Work is a reading comprehension program based on guidelines from SCANS, TABE, and CASAS. This six-book series combines key reading comprehension skills with realistic job-related materials to provide adults with the kind of reading they will be doing on the job or in actual job training programs. Each book teaches the following skills: finding the main idea; identifying cause and effect; comparing and contrasting; classifying information; drawing conclusions; finding details that support the main idea; distinguishing fact from opinion; following directions; making inferences; and understanding visual information. (374.412 CAE)

Registered Apprenticeship: A Step by Step Guide to a Successful Program. Tech Prep Consortium. (1996). This video provides information on registered apprenticeship which is a training program implemented by a company providing academic instruction and on-the-job training for participating employees. (374.013 TPC RA)

Resource Guide: A Key to Organizations Working In: Employee Training, Labor-Management Relations, Work Restructuring, Workplace Literacy. National Alliance of Business. (1995). A listing of a variety of workplace-related national and state organizations. Each entry gives an address, contact person, summary of the organization, year the program started, and other information. (374.013 NAB)

Six Strategies for Self-Sufficiency: Great Ideas for Using State Policy to Get Families Out of Poverty. Van Fossen, Sandra. (1996). This book is the combined effort of four national organizations: Wider Opportunities for Women, the Corporation for Enterprise Development, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the National Economic Development and Law Center. Each chapter is written by a different author giving a variety of viewpoints. Some of the areas covered are: The Self-Sufficiency Standard; Targeting High-Wage Jobs; and Nontraditional Employment for Women. (301 Van)

Student Nonpaid Internship: A Step by Step Guide to a Successful Program. Tech Prep Consortium. (1996). This video provides information on student nonpaid internship. A Student Nonpaid Internship is an agreement between a business and an educational institution that gives high school and college students the opportunity to gain hand-on experience in the workplace. The business allows students to train for an extended period in a closely-supervised environment. (374.013 TPC SNI)

Student Shadow: A Step by Step Guide to a Successful Program. Tech Prep Consortium. (1996). This video provides information on student shadow. Student Shadow programs are informal arrangements between schools and businesses that give students the opportunity to explore the workplace. Businesses allow one or more students to follow employees around during the business day, observing, asking questions and taking part in planned hands-on activities. (374.013 TPC SSH)

Student & Teacher Preparedness: A Step by Step Guide to a Successful Program. Tech Prep Consortium. (1996). This video provides information on student and teacher preparedness. Student and Teacher Preparedness is an essential component of effective school-to-work programs. Preparing students to make the transition from school to the workplace is a challenge for educators and businesses, because teachers and students may not know what is expected of them. (374.013 TPC STP)

Teacher Shadow: A Step by Step Guide to a Successful Program. Tech Prep Consortium. (1996). This video provides information on teacher shadow. Teacher Shadow programs are informal arrangements between schools and businesses that give teachers the opportunity to spend the day with industry professionals, observing the latest techniques and technologies used in the workplace. Businesses can provide valuable continuing education for teachers, allowing them to update their skills and knowledge, as well as gain insight into the needs of employers. (374.013 TPC TSH)

What Works? Literacy Training in the Workplace. National Center on Adult Literacy. (1995). This is a participant packet from a video conference held to promote staff development in workplace literacy programs. Discussion includes case studies, identification of important issues, how much training is occurring and what such training involves. The packet also contains information on resources such as bibliographies, organizations and Internet sites. (374.013 NCA)

What Works: Integrating Basic Skills Training into Welfare-to-Work. National Institute for Literacy. (1998). This report addresses the issue of whether education is being used as part of effective welfare-to-work efforts in accordance with the 1996 welfare law and, if so, how. The report shows that the federal welfare law provides opportunities to include basic skills instruction as part of welfare recipients' transition to work, and profiles eight exemplary programs that are achieving success in this area. The report is intended as a tool for practitioners, providing ideas of what is working well in other programs. FREE COPIES AVAILABLE. (374.0078 NIFL)

Workplace Learning. Spikes, W. Franklin. (1995). Number 68 in the New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education series. This volume is designed to help readers examine current issues surrounding workplace learning programs and incorporate these ideas into their own professional practice. Increased technology, new management strategies, and re-engineered and downsized organizations have caused workplace educators to rethink their craft and formulate answers to the new and immediate business issues faced by their organizations. (374.02 NDACE Spi)

Workplace Literacy Product Checklist. National Alliance of Business. (1995). This product checklist can be used to determine whether a particular workplace literacy product follows best practice, will meet the needs of a firm, and build the productive capacity of its employees. This checklist can also be used to evaluate what parts of a workplace literacy product to select for use. (374.013 NAB WLPC)

Writing for the Workplace: Student Book and Instructor Manual. Phifer, Nan Merrick. (1999). This writing program is designed to build on basic writing skills with independent work assignments that support students' real-world employment goals. Writing prompts are provided to assist inexperienced writers, with lessons that incorporate new vocabulary, rules for punctuation and other skills. Instructor's Guide includes SCANS and CASAS correlations, tips on learning styles of adult students, and other resources. (372.623 Phi)