Adult Basic Education

English language learners are students who are learning English as a second language (ESL). They come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, and they may have different levels of English proficiency. Despite these differences, ESL students have the same potential as any other student to succeed in career and technical education (CTE) pathways.

Adult Basic Education

Over the past years I have focused on what we as educators must do to make our documents/presentations etc. accessible to our learners with disabilities. Along the way I discovered that as I made needed changes to my materials, I also increased the usability for my able-bodied learners. On this journey, I discovered that some of those accessibility features helped me as well. This article is to inform and motivate us all to know about accessibility features that will help our learners.

Adult Basic Education

How many different technology tools do you use? Are you looking for a way to consolidate your online teaching and learning activities? Genially is a free web tool that combines the functions of tools like PowerPoint and Google Slides or Prezi, Quizizz, Quizlet, Thinglink, Adobe Express, and more. Think Canva but with 1000 templates for more interactive learning activities specifically for education.

ESL and Citizenship, Adult Basic Education

Many people think that AI (Artificial Intelligence) is new, but translation services, speech recognition, personalized learning with language learning apps, and grammar/spelling checkers are all forms of AI that we have become accustomed to.

ESL and Citizenship

Seven new online civics education and citizenship resources from USCIS, LINCS, and more.

Adult Basic Education

Learn360 is a great resource for blended learning. With Learn360, you can have your learners watch a video or complete a game or activity to support what you are teaching in the classroom.

Adult Basic Education

It has been almost three years since our world changed along with most aspects of education. COVID 19 became a worldwide pandemic and our way of teaching and delivering instruction changed 180 degrees in a matter of days.

Adult Basic Education

Open Educational Resources, or OERs, are openly licensed teaching and learning materials.

Adult Basic Education

Try these five tech tools and notice adult learner engagement increase.

Adult Basic Education

Many educators are exploring new ways to engage learners online. Engagement for Adults with Disabilities can be especially challenging due to a lack of professional support for educators.

Adult Basic Education

It’s time to review what you know already about Google Forms and move forward learning and practicing some newer features to make your work life more efficient and productive.

Adult Basic Education

What will our "new normal" look like post pandemic? What lessons have we learned that we can utilize?

Adult Basic Education

Although many districts have reopened schools for face-to-face instruction, there is still a need to continue to use Zoom in a blended class.

Adult Basic Education, Career Technical Education, High School and GED

EdReady is a personalized math and English readiness learning system that evaluates the skills of each student in the context of their goal and then provides a learning pathway to mastery.

Adult Basic Education

March's Web Based Activity

Adult Basic Education

Imagine a free website where you can create beautiful augmented worksheets for your students in minutes using an intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard. Now imagine you get access to thousands of worksheets created by instructors across all levels and subject matter. Too good to be true? Nope. WizerMe is an online worksheet creator.

Adult Basic Education

As educators, we often enjoy collaborating with other educators and sharing ideas, lessons, curriculum, and materials that we create.  This spirit of sharing prompted the educational community to begin curating materials to be shared in what is known as Open Educational Resources (OER). 

Holidays

Women's history month

Adult Basic Education, Older Adults, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED, Holidays

Here are some Web sites to check into for more on Veterans Day events and information. Appropriate for High School/GED, ESL and Older adults.

Holidays

Here are some great sites to teach students about the Thanksgiving holiday.