resources for new practitioners
online resources gathered for orientation participants; includes websites proposed by participants of pilot project, and will expand with subsequent orientation sessions.
This page includes links to sites offering orientation for and/or information to new practitioners - teachers, staff and adminsitrators - as well as online professional development offerings. Some are open to all, some sites are restricted to educators in particular states or provinces.
Literacy and Basic Skills Program of Ontario
Literacy Basics - free, self-directed online training website for Ontario literacy practitioners, researched, written and designed by Community Literacy of Ontario
Hudson River Center for Program Development Guide for Managers of Adult Education Programs - on-line document that will: help new program managers become oriented to the world of adult education; provide support to new program managers as they take on their new responsibilities, and serve as an up-to-date resource for program managers making educational and administrative decisions.
Professional Development Resources for administrators from Illinois' Adult Learning Resource Cente
Indiana's Adult Education Professional Development Project - new teacher training system
Kentucky Adult Education Professional Development resources
Massachusetts ABE teachers licensure home page
New Zealand's tutor/teacher qualification - for practitioners delivering vocational or industry training courses or workplace training programmes ( not literacy but focussed on specific workplace skills). word document; the main part of the qualifcation is a unit standard ( competency standard) called 21204 (also a word document).
Pennsylvania 's Adult Teacher Competencies and Defining Pennsylvania's ESL Training System: Guiding Principles forAdult ESL Instruction; Indicators of Program Qualityfor Adult ESL Instruction; ESL PractitionerCompetencies, and Pennsylvania Training System Resources and Recommendations (a PDF document)
Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners(also available at NCFL
The Adult Literacy Educator Certificate Program - Canadian Certificate Program has been designed to address the training needs of Adult Literacy Educators. It provides an in depth exploration of key principles, practices, concepts and issues that shape the role of the literacy educator in the delivery of literacy and basic skills programming. It was developed with input from both experienced literacy educators and those who were relatively new to the field. Their experiences represented a variety of program settings and their work with learners who have a variety of literacy skills and learning needs.
Texas Adult Education Credential Project Adult Education Credential Project . San Marcos, TX: Center for Initiatives in Education, Southwest Texas State University -- state leadership project to develop an adult education teacher credential for Texas, funded by the Texas Education Agency, Division of Adult Education.
ESL Basics online from the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
West Virginia Teacher Handbook
Online Professional Development for Adult ESL Educators
ESL/Civics link EL/Civics professional development online
FENTO - one of 71 UK-wide National Training Organisations (NTOs). It is the national lead body responsible for the development, quality assurance and promotion of national standards for the Further Education sector.
QCA - National adult literacy and numeracy qualifications for adult educators in the U.K.
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges new teacher orientation.
Web-Based Inservice Programs from Florida's TechNet Professsional Development Center
Center for Literacy (Tennessee) on-line professional development
Expanding Access: Web Resources for States Interested in Improving and Expanding their Professional Development Systems by Lennox McLendon, in Focus on Basics, Volume 5, Issue D, June 2002,
Classroom observation: a recent thread begun online has surfaced a number of ideas about and resources related to teacher education and observation. (Read the thread at the Adult Literacy Professional Developers Discussion List - late November, 2004).
Virgina
Adult Learning Resource Center's Teacher Observation Project -
"contains a set of tools to be used by instructional leaders ... for a
process
of teacher observation and feedback for professional development. The process is designed to help the observer better understand the teacher's classroom practice and to give the teacher objective input and the opportunity to examine and improve particular aspects of her/his practice.
Field Notes, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Spring 2006) Ê Staff and Program Development
Successful Supervision: Three Perspectives Caroline Gear, Rebecca Shiffron, Steve Kurtz, in Adventures in Assessment, Volume 12, Winter, 2000
research
Research on Professional Development and Teacher Change: Implications for Adult Basic Education (PDF file)
August 26, 2008
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