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Adult Education Administrator's Manual

Instructional Services
Students

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The Texas Adult Education Standardized Curriculum Framework is designed to provide basic literacy life skills for adults:

• To become literate and obtain the knowledge and skills necessary for employment and self-sufficiency;
• Who are parents to obtain educational skills necessary to become full partners in the educational development of their children;
• To assist them in the completion of a secondary school education; or,
• Who are unable to speak, read, or write the English language.

The content develops basic literacy in all areas of knowledge. The curriculum structure provides comprehensive instructional competencies designed to improve the employability of the state’s workforce through adult basic education, adult secondary education, English-As-A-Second Language, citizenship, and through services for adults with disabilities. The curriculum framework involves Literacy Completion levels (similar to non-credit courses) designed to develop literacy skills necessary for successful employment, citizenship, and/or training beyond secondary education. The curriculum framework is divided into Literacy Completion Points (LCP’s). Progress through levels (LCP’s) may be measured by approved standardized tests or by documentation of proficiency in each standard.

Adult Basic Education (ABE) provides completion levels in instruction for mathematics, reading, language, and workforce readiness skills at grade level equivalency 0-8.9. The Literacy Completion Point (LCP) has between 8 to 10 standards on the Adult Basic Education Skill level in each major component of academic skills: reading, mathematics and language arts.

English As A Second Language (ESL) provides completion levels in noncredit English language instruction designed for acquisition of communication skills and cultural competencies which enhance the ability to read, write, speak and listen to English. The English as a Second Language LCP’s are composed of 17 standards that are uniformed from level to level. The measurements to complete each standard changes as the level increases making each standard more applicable to the learner’s degree of skills and knowledge.

Adult Secondary Education (ASE) provides completion level of instruction for the five components of the GED test (math, social studies, science, language arts, and the essay).

Adults with disabilities for educational purposes, an individual who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment, and who requires modifications to the educational program, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, or specialized instructional methods and services.

Workforce Literacy involves the basic skills necessary to perform in entry-level occupations or the skills necessary to adapt to technological advances in the workplace.

Special Notes: It is not intended that students will progress through the performance standards sequentially. The instructor may present topic-centered lessons which integrate benchmarks from several performance standards. It is up to the instructor to inform the student of the criteria for demonstrating proficiency in a benchmark. In order to show a completion of a level, a learner must complete 100 percent of the standards listed within an LCP with 80 percent proficiency within each standard using the benchmarks below each standard.

All activities are developed to be done either individually or in groups. The computer skills are not required, as access to technology at this point in time is not available for every student. The computer sections are optional and will not be necessary to earn Literacy Completion Points (LCP). The performance standards and benchmarks have been developed to facilitate documentation of learning gains.

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