One in Five Adults Struggles with Low Literacy Skills.
3.4 Million of These Adults Reside in Texas.

From the Margins to the Mainstream: An Action Agenda for Literacy, National Literacy Summit 2000

Planning Literacy and Language Services for Texas' Limited English Proficient Workers:
The Devil is in the Details

A guide for program design: planning, implementing, and sustaining workforce-related education programs

by Barbara Tondre-El Zorkani (2001)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Handout # 1:  Glossary of Terms

Handout # 2:  Guide for Program Design

Handout # 3:  Profiles of Limited English Proficient Workers

Handout # 4:  Worker Role Maps (English and Spanish equivalents)

Handout # 5:  Concerns, Issues, and Observations From the Field

Handout # 6:  What to Look For in Workforce-Related Instructional Programs

Handout # 7:  Planning Constraints on Workforce-Related ESL Program Development

Handout # 8:  Essential Elements and WIA Criteria for Successfully Combining Workforce Education and Literacy

Handout # 9:  Five Options for Workforce-Related Approaches to Literacy and English Language Learning

Handout #10: Six Steps to Integrating Adult Education and Community-Level Workforce Development Programs

Handout #11: Needs Analysis - Instruments for Surveying Local Workforce Needs

Handout #12: Assessment - Measuring the Skills and Educational Needs of the Targeted Workforce

Handout #13: Instructional Delivery: Responding to the Needs of Spanish-Speaking Dislocated Workers

Handout #14: Promising Practices

Handout #15: Feedback Form