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

Handout # 4: Equipped for the Future Worker Role Maps (English and Spanish)

Handout # 4 consists of two pages: the English and Spanish versions of EFF's Worker Role Map. The maps describe broad areas of workers' responsibilities and should be useful in identifying the skills that need to be addressed in workforce-related education programs. (The links to these maps are located at the bottom of this page.)

Equipped for the Future (EFF) is the National Institute for Literacy's (NIFL) standards-based system reform initiative aimed at improving the quality and outcomes of the adult literacy and lifelong learning delivery system.  NIFL undertook EFF in an effort to better understand what we need to do as a nation to meet the challenge posed in the National Goal for adult education and lifelong learning, which states: "Every adult American will be literate and possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship."

EFF seeks to improve the quality of adult education services by offering the field a comprehensive content framework, better-defined results, and standards that enable programs to focus on achieving those results.  Based on extensive input from learners, instructors, administrators, and others, EFF crafted 16 content standards that expand the range of skills currently addressed in adult education to cover what adults must know and be able to do to fulfill their roles as workers, parents, family members, and citizens.

EFF has been instrumental in shifting approaches for adult basic education from an emphasis on replicating K-12 education to ones which use research-based standards to prepare adults to meet their goals.

Through a grass roots process, EFF partners have engaged thousands of customers and stakeholders in the adult literacy and lifelong learning system to build consensus on customer needs and goals.  From this consensus, EFF Partners are developing, refining and validating frameworks for content and performance standards.

The frameworks are a primary vehicle for enabling system reform that lines up instructional practice, program services, and program accountability so that the focus is on learner goals and the stated purposes of access, voice, independent action, and bridge to the future.

For more information, visit: http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/eff.html

In the Texas State Plan for Adult Education and Family Literacy, EFF has been included as a recommended standard for adult education programs.  For further information, please visit the following website: www.tea.state.tx.us/adult/newstplan/index.html

WORKER ROLE MAPS

http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/eff_worker.html

MAPA DEL ROL DEL TRABAJADOR

http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/spanish/trabajador_role_map.html

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