ESL and Citizenship

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

The HyFlex (Hybrid-Flexible) model of instruction has gained significant traction in adult education, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This instructional approach allows students to choose between attending classes in person, participating online in real-time, (simultaneous instruction) or engaging with course materials asynchronously. (Only some agencies do the asynchronous option) As adult education continues to evolve, the HyFlex model offers a promising alternative to traditional and fully online instructional methods, but its effectiveness and implementation challenges must be carefully considered.

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

Whether you teach Economics or ESL, Citizenship or Math, including video content in lessons has numerous potential benefits, including alignment with adult education standards. Videos that support lesson content can build students’ background knowledge, a key shift of the College and Career Readiness Standards. One principle of the adult education standards for English language learners, the English Language Proficiency Standards, is integration of multimedia technology into curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The standards’ 21st Century definition of literacy includes visual and digital literacies. Video is a means to boost these literacies, building students’ college and career readiness.

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

As large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini are being utilized more and more in education, we, as adult educators, need to become prompt engineering aficionados, finessing prompts to get the results we want. But really, who has time for that? Here is where the rays of light come from the heavens and illuminates MagicSchool.AI. MagicSchool was created to alleviate teacher burn-out by creating easy to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools for lesson planning, differentiation, assessments, and more.

ESL and Citizenship

Civics and citizenship education is vital for fostering active participation and informed decision-making in democratic societies. However, engaging adult learners in this field can pose significant challenges. Enter generative artificial intelligence (AI), offering innovative solutions to revitalize civics education for adult students. Let's explore into how generative AI is reshaping the landscape of adult civics education with practical classroom activities.

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

In the last ten years, Distance Education has evolved into various modes of instructional delivery that have increased our students' Digital Literacy skills and provided thousands upon thousands of adult students the opportunity to attend classes in flexible modalities that have addressed their changing needs. Educators and students benefit from the flexibility of the various learning modalities that are now available for adult education programs to adopt. Preparation is key to the success of these innovative and engaging learning environments. In this article, you will learn about the characteristics that differentiate the Hybrid, HyFlex, and Online Live learning modalities and some tips to assist you in preparing for, planning, and implementing these innovative modes of instruction.

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

Introduction: In the January article, "Streamline Planning with AI: Craft Custom Lessons," Susan Coulter detailed how teachers can harness the power of AI through platforms like Chat GPT and Google Bard to streamline their lesson planning. However, the transformative potential of AI in education extends beyond the classroom. In this article, we will explore how adult education students can ethically and responsibly leverage AI to enhance their language and content development.

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

Every district has their own format for writing lesson plans, and I remember it being a manual and time-intensive process. Typically, this involves crafting lesson objectives, carefully choosing, arranging, and presenting different activities to address a particular learning goal.

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

Collaboration. Collaboration Tools. Collaboration Activities. All good terms for working in groups to move learning forward and enhance the learning experience.

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, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED

21Things4Students is an online resource to help students improve their technology proficiency as they prepare for success in the real world." You will love this resource, not only for your students and your class, but also for yourself. This website has everything you want or need to teach your students about digital literacy and citizenship. It not only teaches students, but it also has a section dedicated to teachers who may feel they lack some of the skills themselves (more on that later). An added plus: there are no student logins, so students won't need accounts or passwords to use the site.

Adult Basic Education, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED

An electronic portfolio is an online showcase of a student’s work, which can include writing, images, artwork, links, and multimedia.

Adult Basic Education, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED

There are many Web sites that allow you to create both interactive and printable word puzzles which can help with language development. Give some of these a try. You may find one you cannot live without.

Adult Basic Education, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED

Use these sites in your studies of Presidents.

Adult Basic Education, Older Adults, ESL and Citizenship

This short month is chock-full of holidays, occasions for both romantic and serious lesson themes and accompanying Web activities.

Adult Basic Education, ESL and Citizenship, Holidays

There are abundant myths about the history of Thanksgiving. You can help students learn about this original American holiday and untangle facts from fiction by planning lessons with or simply including online activities using the sites in this month's Web Based Activity.

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.

Adult Basic Education, ESL and Citizenship

Newspapers in Our Classrooms

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Teaching those new to America or those who have grown up here but are not sure how various holidays began, can be fun and informative. Take a look at some of these May holidays. There are also some dates that have been set aside by congressional or presidential proclamation as National Days of _______. Hopefully one will spark some interest and generate some topics for conversation. Some are appropriate for ABE, ASE, ESL or Older Adults.

ESL and Citizenship

Ah... summertime. Barbecues, long afternoons, vacation. What a great time to build one's repertoire of word knowledge. That's right. Encourage students to learn 100 new words this summer. Here are some ways to get started.