Teachers' Resources
This publication introduces the Instructor Competencies Assessment Instrument (ICAE). It is designed to help programs verify and validate 31 competencies with their staff and use the information for program improvement and professional development planning. It can be used to guide effective instructional practice and to foster positive learner outcomes
A two-part article constructed by David Rosen taking excerpts from a written conversation on project-based learning with such authors as Susan Gaer and Silja Kallenbach.
Engaging Faculty and Staff: An Imperative for Fostering Retention, Advising, and Smart Borrowing — Provides useful insights and strategies for institutions to use in order to increase student retention, persistence and postsecondary success — and to reduce the burdens of student loan defaults. Research study by Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation in collaboration with The Educational Policy Institute.
Online comicstrip creator -- http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
Created by Bill Zimmerman, author of the books "Make Beliefs," with art by Tom Bloom of "Comic Strips by You!,"
this site offers a fun, simple way to encourage students of all ages to write, read, and tell their stories or create illustrations for classroom lessons. Just choose a character, add a talk or thought balloon, and start a dialogue.
h.i.p. Pocket Change -- http://www.usmint.gov/kids/
The United States Mint h.i.p. Pocket Change™ Web site was launched in July 1999. h.i.p. Pocket Change is a fun educational tool for students and teachers that generates interest in coins, the United States Mint, and U.S. history.
The United States Mint celebrated the release of the Washington quarter on April 2, 2007. The ceremony marked the release of the quarter for the forty-second state to be honored as a part of the 50 State Quarters® Program. Washington's quarter pictures a salmon next to Mt. Rainier, a volcano. The quarter also bears the state's nickname, "Evergreen State," as well as the inscriptions "Washington" and "1889." The Web site offers a collection of lesson plans and activities available based on the Washington State quarter. Click on the link in this paragrah to see what is available.
Study Guides and Strategies
A study guide site available in 30+ languages.
TeAchnology--www.teach-nology.com/
As a web portal, TeAch-nology.com offers a wide variety of free resources intended to bring educators into the world of teaching with technology. It provides links to valuable and useful information relative to current and best practices in the field of education. A large variety of free classroom materials and support tools are also available.
MLoTS--The Media Library of Teaching Skills
This link has eight, original adult literacy education classroom videos, and links to other adult education videos on other Web sites. The MLoTS videos include ESOL/ESL, reading, writing, numeracy/mathematics, and adult secondary education. All the videos are free and stream online. The MLoTS videos are based on state curriculum standards or frameworks or on other best practices. They are intended for teacher professional development. They can be used as part of face-to-face or online courses, workshops, or study circles, and can also be accessed by individual teachers who on their own want a "window" to look in on other teaching colleagues' classrooms and teaching practices.
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Ferlazzo
highlights what he think are the best educational websites.
The Best on the Web for Teachers!
400 links to teaching tools, tips and lessons.
Curriculum
Note: Some of these documents are quite large and may require considerable time to completely download to your computer. Remember that you do not have to print the whole document, you can print out specific pages that are of interest. If you are unable to download a document, please contact the Resource Center to request assistance.
Communication Across Barriers |
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Facilitators Guide Book |
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(videos available for loan through Resource Center) |
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Cooperative Learning Training Manual |
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Interpersonal & Problem Solving Skills |
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Improving Thinking Skills |
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Literacy Drama-Using Plays in Adult Literacy Education |
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Participatory Problem Posing |
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TELT Manual
Training Effective Literacy Tutors Instructional Plans and Materials |
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The Adult Learner: Participant Guide
(video available for loan through Resource Center)
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The Adult Basic Education Teacher's Toolkit |
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Using the Library
(video available for loan through Resource Center) |
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Enhancing Self-Awareness |
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Interacting with Others |
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Realizing Goals |
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Recognizing Emotions |
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Dimensions of Change |
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Practical Classroom Assessment: A Resource Manual |
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Project Based Learning and Assessment: A Resource Manual for Teachers |
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Survey of Assessment Methods Currently Being Used in Washington
State's Volunteer-Based Adult Literacy Programs |
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Introduction-Part Two, Ch 5 |
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Part Two, Ch 6 - 10 |
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Part Two, Unit 3, Ch 11 - Bibliography |
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Citizenship: A Guide to Good Teaching |
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Literacy for Citizenship |
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English Skills for Native American Adults |
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A Language Experience English-As-A-Second -Language Project:
Instruction Guide, Training and Literacy Reader |
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Best Practices-A Resource Book for Volunteer Tutors Program
Coordinators |
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Best Practices-Samples |
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Communicative ESL |
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Conchita and Pham: A Multi-Level ESL Reader |
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Culture Learning in a Multi-Level, Bilingual, Bicultural Context:
Lesson Plans for Spanish Speaking ESL Students Sharing and
Learning About Culture with English-Speaking Students of Spanish |
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Developing Oral Fluency |
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EL Civics for ESL Students
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ESL Grammar Vocabulary Wordsearch Puzzle Exercises |
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ESL Spelling Guide: An ESL Tutor's Guidebook for
Native Spanish Speaking Students |
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Far Corner: Washington State and the Pacific Northwest |
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Immigration-Related Job Discrimination-An ESL Curriculum Guide |
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More ELCivics at Renton Technical College |
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Multilevel ESL Curriculum Guide |
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Recycle it! Learning and Lessons in Beginning ESL |
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Speaking with Us |
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Storyytelling Project |
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Teaching Strategies for Multilevel ESL Classes:
Facilitator's Guide & Participant Packet |
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The ESL Computer Book-Excel 2002 |
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The ESL Computer Book-Microsoft Word 2000 |
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The ESL Computer Book-The Internet |
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Things that Work: Ideas and Activities from Real Teachers in Real ESL
Classrooms Who Teach Adult Immigrants from the Amnesty Program
At All Levels and All at Once |
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A Family Literacy Toolbook:
Incorporating Workplace Skills in Family Literacy Programs |
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Domestic/Dating Violence-An Information and Resource Handbook |
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Emergent Literacy |
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ESL Family-Based Tutoring Manual |
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ESL Family Curriculum Guide |
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ESL Family Literacy Project |
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Families and Literacy:
Making Sense of the Issues
(video available for loan through Resource Center) |
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Family Literacy Resources |
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Family Story Curriculum Project |
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Family Talk Time |
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Family Tutoring |
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Home English Literacy for Parents: An ESL Family Literacy Curriculum |
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Home is Where the Heart Is |
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Learn Together Activities for Parents and Children |
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Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners |
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Reading Partners: A Family Literacy Resource Guide
for ABE Classrooms & Tutor Programs, Teacher's Manual |
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Reading Partners: A Family Literacy Resource Guide
for ABE Classrooms & Tutor Programs, Parent's Manual |
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Financial Literacy Lessons for ESL Students |
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Personal Finance |
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Personal Finance-Consumer |
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You Work Hard for Your Money
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GED Lesson Plans |
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Language Arts Writing |
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Social Studies |
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Science |
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Mathematics |
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Reading |
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Pre GED: |
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Language Arts Writing |
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Language Arts Reading |
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Social Studies |
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Science |
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Mathematics |
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Heal: BCC Curriculum |
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Heal: BCC Teacher Support Materials |
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Word List |
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Passport to Health |
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ESL Activities Preparatory for a CPR/First Aid Course |
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Exercise Cards
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Illustration Cards
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Vocabulary Cards
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Health Through Knowledge |
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Study Skills and 1st Aid Curriculum-Teacher's Manual |
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Study Skills and 1st Aid Curriculum-Student's Manual |
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Taking Care of Yourself -A Guide to Women's Health |
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Tobacco and Literacy Education Project
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Language Arts Lesson: Reading and Writing About Secondhand Smoke |
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Math Lesson: Calculating the Costs of Smoking |
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Research Skills Lesson: Researching Tobacco and Other Health
Topics on the Internet
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Diversity is the Key: A Guide for Teachers of Adults
(video available for loan through Resource Center) |
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Inquiry and Action: Implementation Guide for Professional
Development Facilitators |
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The Accidental Teacher |
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The Adult Educator's Guide to Practitioner Research |
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PACE Curriculum |
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Let's Sing: Group Singing for Language Learning |
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Teasers |
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Real Power: Thinking Through Conflict |
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Teaching the Levees - Curriculum helps students explore the many dimensions of governmental,
communal, and personal responsibility implicated
in situations of disaster. |
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The Police, Traffic Tickets, and You |
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Bridges to Practice |
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Guidebook 1: Preparing to Serve Adults with Learning Disabilities |
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Guidebook 2: The Assessment Process |
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Guidebook 3: The Planning Process |
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Guidebook 4: The Teaching/Learning Process |
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Guidebook 5: Creating Professional Development Opportunities |
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| Minnesota Adult Basic Education (ABE) Fully-Accessible Online
Disability Resource Guide |
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Universal Design for Learning Strategies Cookbook featuring teach strategies from instructors at Renton Technical College. |
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An ESL Math Glossary |
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Math as a Problem Solving |
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Math at Work |
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Planting a Garden - ESL Math Lesson |
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Skills and Strategies to Master Maps, Graphs, and Charts |
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How to Form and Maintain a Nonprofit Corporation in Washington State |
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NCSALL has designed guides for faculty study circles on topics of adult learning theory. Participants will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the selected topics and discuss strategies for implementing new practices into their classrooms. Study circles are organized into three sessions of approximately 3 hours each and are designed to accommodate 4-8 participants plus a facilitator. Each guide comes complete with all reading material and facilitator resources. Current study circle topics include:
- Teaching and Learning in Authentic Contexts
- Performance Accountability in Adult Basic Educaton
- Adult Multiple Intelligences
- Learner Persistence in Adult Basic Education
- Research-Based Adult Reading Instruction
- Health Literacy
- Adult Development
- Rethinking Instruction and Participation for Adult Basic Education
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Beyond the GED: Making Conscious Choices About the GED and Your Future
Lesson Plans and Materials for the GED Classroom
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Creating Authentic Materials and Activities for the Adult Literacy Classroom:
A Handbook for Practitioners |
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Understanding What Reading is About |
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Beginning Writing Skills Packet |
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English Pre-reading Curriculum:
Alphabet, Consonant Sounds, Vowel Sounds |
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Multicultural Reading and Writing-Higher Level Grammar Course |
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Turning Pages: Basic Reading Tutor Training and Resource Manual |
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Making It Real: Teaching Pre-literate Adult Refugee Students |
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Job Preparation: A Curriculum for Refugee and Immigrant Women |
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Planning and Implementing Cross-Cultural Orientation Programs for Refugees |
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Breaking Through: Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers |
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Crossing the Bridge: Student Retention and Transition
by Marsha Strom & Tracy Kramer, SPSCC |
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Data Graphics: Educational Attainment and Real-Life Outcomes |
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Reducing Waiting Lists in Adult Basic Education and Literacy Programs |
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Resources |
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Reducing Waiting Lists–Video of Pilot Sites |
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The Write to Read Program, Alameda County, CA (7 mins.) |
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A Community Partnership, West Chester, PA (9 mins.)
(DVD-Video available for loan through Resource Center) |
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A Guide to Integrating Technology into Basic Skills Instruction |
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Expanding Horizons of Adult Learners: Models for Integrating Technology
(video available for loan through Resource Center) |
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Microsoft Office Software Tutorials
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: LTS Online Help Documentation
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The Basics of Word 2000 |
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A Guide for Creating a Voluntary Job Placement Experience
Incorporating Basic Skills |
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A Hazardous Materials Course |
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Assembly Vocabulary Course |
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Basic Skills in the Workplace: A Handbook of Washington Employer
Practices in 1995 |
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Basic Skills Workplace - Lesson Plans |
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Bridges to Careers for Low-Skilled Adults: A Progam Development Guide |
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Employability-Teacher Handbook |
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Employability-Student Workbook |
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Employability Modules |
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English for the Cast Iron Industry Guide-Student
Beginner to Low Intermediate Levels |
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English for the Cast Iron Industry Guide-Teacher
Beginner to Low Intermediate Levels |
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English for the Cast Iron Industry Guide-The Supervisor
Low to High Intermediate Levels |
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ESL Curriculum of the DoubleTree Hotels: Instructor's Guide |
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ESL for Doubletree Hotels |
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ESL Curriculum for the Red Lion Hotels: Levels 1 and 2 |
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Hotel and Motel Workers - Curriculum and Teacher Guide |
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I-CANS: Integrated Curriculum for Achieving Necessary Skills |
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Job Search Workhop Curriculum |
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Keeping Afloat in the Workplace |
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Landscaping Curriculum |
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Language Preparation for the Trades: Carpentry |
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Language Preparation for the Trades-Welding |
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Lean Manufacturing for ESL |
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Sheraton Seattle-A Curriculum for Hotel Room Attendants
Beginning Level 1& 2 |
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Sheraton Seattle-A Curriculum for Hotel Room Attendants Level 3 |
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Skills Standards Guidebook 1
Prepared by The Boeing Company, The Center for Career and Work-Related Education, and SBCTC |
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Small Group Employability Curriculum |
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Vocational ESL-Auto Parts Sales Curriculum Guide |
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Vocational ESL-Custodial Technology Curriculum Guide |
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Worker-Centered Learning: A Union Guide to Basic Skills |
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Workplace Workbook |
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Bibliographies
Annotated Bibliography in Family Literacy |
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Content Standards Math Resources |
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OTAN List of Math Resources Links |
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Research Bibliography |
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