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Developing Meaningful Workplace Curriculum
By Kathleen O'Connell |
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Our workplace education students at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center (Seaport) are some of the lucky ones who have an employer who recognizes their potential for growth. Twice a week for a total of four hours a week, employees come to one of two workplace ESOL classes on 100% paid release time. The Seaport’s conference room becomes a learning community where students generate ideas, support each other, and try out new skills. The students come from all walks of life with a range of educational backgrounds, job titles, English literacy, and communication abilities, but they all share one workplace. The shared workplace context is the primary source for the classroom content. |
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New Project: Single Mothers' Career Readiness and Success
NCTN is investigating program strategies and models that address the needs of single mothers who are college students, especially those enrolled in Career and Technical Education programs, to improve their ability to attain a credential.
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Winter/Spring E-Learning Professional Development Course Schedule
E-Learning PD facilitated courses are 4-8 week explorations of topics that teachers are grappling with in their classrooms today. Our online format makes it possible for everyone with a reliable internet connection to participate, no matter where they are or how complicated their schedule. Our facilitators are subject-matter experts in their topic as well as guides to help you make your way through the course. Asynchronous discussion forums give participants the chance to share their experiences and learn from each other.
Find the course that best fits your needs and register today! If the course you're looking for isn't being offered this season,
sign up to be notified once it's available, or gather a grop together and
contact us to set up a session just for you!
- Contextualized Instruction
- Navigating Pathways to Opportunity: Comprehensive Student Supports
- Helping Students Stay: Exploring Program and Classroom Persistence Strategies
- Blended Learning for English Language Learners
- Foundations of Teaching Adult Numeracy
- Algebra: Introducing Algebraic Reasoning
- Mathematizing ESOL I: Integrating Whole Number Operations
- Mathematizing ESOL II: Integrating Benchmark Percentages and Decimals
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FREE WEBINAR
Innovative Digital Learning Models for ELL Immigrant Adults
Friday, February 23, 2018, 12:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time
Mobile and other technologies make possible anytime, anywhere learning to extend education to previously underserved adults and to expand learning beyond classroom walls. Technology can also accelerate outcomes through personalized instruction and practice. In this webinar, our EdTech Center experts
Heide Wrigley and
Alison Ascher Webber will highlight emerging best practices and innovative program models that organizations across the country are using for distance and blended ESL instruction for immigrants and refugees at all skill levels. They will share the range of critical supports the organizations provide to meet the needs of specific demographics as they recruit, train, and coach immigrants for educational success, career mobility, and increased civic engagement. Though the examples in this webinar will primarily be from ESL programs, the best practices discussed apply to digital learning in any topics and with all demographics. |
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How Investment in Technology Can Accelerate Collective Impact in Adult Learning
This white paper features innovative adult education practices and projects in four categories: (1) Using technology to reach new learners, (2) Using technology to extend learning for current students, (3) Using technology to differentiate learning, and (4) Using technology to collaborate and break the silos that separate practitioners from different agencies that receive federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds.
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These themes help to better understand how technology is currently being deployed as a disruptive tool and to determine how to position the return on investment in technology infrastructure for policymakers and funding agents. It draws on focus groups with state-level professional development staff, educational technology specialists, program managers, and “lead” teachers from the 11 IDEAL Consortium states whose blended and distance learning programs reach tens of thousands of adult learners. The paper was co-authored by Alison Ascher Webber, Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Ed Tech Center at World Education, Jen Vanek, Director of the IDEAL Distance Learning Consortium, and Mitch Rosin, Aztec Software. |
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Save the Date!
Connect and engage with colleagues from across the country at the National College Transition Network’s 12th annual conference on Effective Transitions in Adult Education.
November 12-14, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, MA |
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In the U.S., our mission at World Education is to strengthen the effectiveness of educators, organizations, and systems to support adults, older youth, and communities to thrive. We hope our resources help bring best practices and inspiring content to the adult education classroom and beyond. |
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World Education
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210
617-482-9485 |
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