Do your students want to build confidence, develop academic skills, and pursue pathways to meaningful careers? Recent research and adult education redesign initiatives highlight the need to rethink adult education curricula to support students’ short and long term education and career goals. Contextualized instruction is an effective classroom practice that helps students develop academic skills and career awareness of current industry and sector-focused issues. In this highly participatory course you will learn more about the principles and techniques of contextualized instruction that will help you to achieve your long-term instructional goals.

Contextualized Intruction is a 7-week course facilitated by Serge Shea. Participants do not need to be online at specific times and can do the course work at times that are convenient to them. Weekly deadlines and course discussion boards help participants stay together and exhange ideas. It is anticipated that participants spend 3-4 hours a week to successfully complete the course. View the course overview.

In this foundational course you’ll learn how to keep students at the center of numeracy instruction. You’ll explore the context, content, and cognitive and affective components of numeracy, how to address the needs of students with learning gaps, how students’ styles of learning math and levels of math knowledge affect their math skills, and ways to build student’s success in learning math. You’ll plan classroom activities, test them with your students, and share your experiences with fellow teachers.

Foundations of Teaching Adult Numeracy is a 6-week course facilitated by Amy Vickers. Participants do not need to be online at specific times and can do the course work at times that are convenient to them. Weekly deadlines and course discussion boards help participants stay together and exhange ideas. It is anticipated that participants spend 2-3 hours a week to successfully complete the course. View the course overview.