- ABE/ASE Curriculum
- Career Pathways Contextualized Bridge Curriculum
- Entrepreneurial Contextualized Bridge Curriculum
- Healthcare Contextualized Bridge Curriculum
- IT Bridge Contextualized Curriculum
- Manufacturing Contextualized Bridge Curriculum
- Transportation, Distribution and Logistics (TDL) Contextualized Bridge Curriculum
- Strategies for achieving career success
- Educational pathways in the field of law
- Licensing and certification requirements in law
- Alternative career pathways
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This brief explains what financial literacy skills are and why they are important.
This brief explains what financial literacy skills are and why they are important. It describes what skills students need for financial literacy and provides tips for integrating financial literacy in the adult education classroom.
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This brief explain what is meant by "financial literacy skills" and the importance of these skills in adult learners' lives. It provides clear examples of instructional tasks that can foster students development of the necessary skills as well as tips for teaching the skills in the classroom.
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This brief explains what digital literacy skills are and why they are important.
This brief explains what digital literacy skills are and why they are important. It describes what skills students need for digital literacy and provides tips for integrating digital literacy in the adult education classroom.
Benefits and Uses
This briefs explain what is meant by "digital literacy skills" and the importance of these skills in adult learners' lives. It provides clear examples of instructional tasks that can foster students development of the necessary skills as well as tips for teaching the skills in the classroom.
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2020
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This brief explains what civics education skills are and why they are important for adult learners.
This brief explains what civics education skills are and why they are important. It describes what skills students need to function effectively as parents, workers, and citizens of the United States and provides tips for integrating civics education in the adult education classroom.
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This brief explains what is meant by "civics education skills" and the importance of these skills in adult learners' lives. It provides clear examples of instructional tasks that can foster students development of the necessary skills as well as tips for teaching the skills in the classroom.
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No prior training required.
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2020
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This resource provides an outline for how to implement technology tools that are standards-based and meet the instructional needs of adult educators and learners.
The Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners was created to provide definition, structure, and support to adult learners as they pursue increased digital literacy. The Framework outlines seven interconnected elements for an adult learner to be digitally literate: Technical, Civic, Communicative, Collaborative, Computational Thinking, Investigative, and Productive. Within the Framework, practitioners can find definitions, guiding questions, descriptions, and situational examples. To further support the pursuit of increased digital literacy, Maryland Department of Labor's Adult Education created a Digital Literacy Framework: Instructor Implementation Guide. This Guide, created in 2020, supplements the Framework by offering applicable, implemented lesson activities and curated resources that align with the Framework. The lesson activities are content area driven and support adult educators as they integrate digital literacy in instruction. The curated online resources provide online tools effective in supporting digital literacy.
Benefits and Uses
The strength of this resource is that it takes a digital literacy framework and shows instructors how to apply the framework in planning and implementing instruction. For each of the lesson activities, the materials and resources needed to implement the lesson activity are provided, along with the steps for the digital literacy portion of the lesson activity. Each lesson activity includes objectives, competencies and/or standards materials/resources, instructions, extension activities, and key observations. Some of the lesson activities have helpful features such as vocabulary to pre-teach, ways to adapt the lesson activity to virtual settings, and more detailed instructions.
It is important to note that all instructors will need to adapt the lesson activity to their students and their subject. For the most part, the lesson activities describe the digital literacy portion of the lesson, not the content/subject and the scaffolding that students will need.
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No prior training required
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This guide is a must for adult educators trying to increase digital literacy in the classroom. The framework outlines seven interconnected elements for an adult learner to be digitally literate: Technical, Civic, Communicative, Collaborative, Computational Thinking, Investigative, and Productive. Within the framework, instructors can find definitions, guiding questions, descriptions, and situational examples. Individual lessons include objectives, competencies and/or standards materials/resources, instructions, extension activities, and key observations. The authors have done a wonderful job pulling together resources and thinking through the steps to digital literacy lesson activities.
It is important to note that this resource is the Instructor Implementation Guide meant to accompany the Maryland Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners. Users should read the Digital Literacy Framework first when using this Instructor Implementation Guide.
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2020
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Illinois Community College Board, Division of Adult Education & Literacy, has designed several comprehensive model contextualized curricula, which includes instructions for use, supplemental materials, lesson plans, and related resources. Illinois Community College Board, Division of Adult Education & Literacy, has designed several comprehensive model contextualized curricula, which include:Publication Year
2020
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This compendium describes the four innovative practices in secondary credentialing selected from the Round 1 Advancing Innovation in Adult Education applications.
This compendium describes four innovative practices selected by the Advancing Innovation in Adult Education project. The four adult education practices highlighted in the compendium were drawn from round 1 applicants and illustrate innovative approaches for adult learners to attain a secondary credential while developing skills for career readiness, earning college credits, or obtaining an occupational certificate in a career pathway.
Benefits and Uses
Adult education State staff, program administrators, instructors and staff, workforce development staff, federal agency staff, and adult education researchers can use the Compendium of Innovative Practices to learn about new and enhanced approaches for adults to earn a secondary credential that include occupational training or earning of postsecondary credits as part of the credentialing option, and that involve web-based delivery of a credentialing program.
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2020
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This e-guide provides resources and guidance to internationally trained immigrants seeking to use their education in the field of law in the United States.
This e-guide provides resources and guidance to internationally trained immigrants seeking to use their education in the field of law in the United States. It explores career pathways related to law, as well as alternative careers.
Features include:
Benefits and Uses
This guide is thorough and covers steps in the career pathway, understanding the legal profession in the U.S., gaining recognition for international education, requirements and licensing in a variety of law fields, and transferring skills to alternate fields. Ample links and references to further information are provided throughout the guide, along with clear statements of caution to check specific state licensing and training requirements. This guide could be used by a program or classroom teacher as part of a curriculum on career pathways.
The guide is clearly written but is written at an advanced level of English. It assumes readers are fluent or nearly fluent in English. Additionally, to access the guide you must fill out an online form that asks your name, email address, and a series of questions about your affiliation to the resource.
What the experts say
This guide is an excellent resource for internationally educated people, particularly immigrants and refugees, who are seeking to work in the U.S. It presents information about the ways people with credentials from countries outside the U.S. might transfer those credentials and/or seek alternative work within the field of law. The guide begins with the steps of a career pathway and poses questions that get the reader started on their journey. It provides extensive information on the legal system in the U.S. and requirements and licensing in a variety of fields of law. The handy glossary entries on certain pages help the reader understand terminology as they read. In addition, the guide includes resources throughout and at the end of the guide, an index of references, and a SMART goal worksheet that the reader can leverage as they move through the guide.
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2020
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This report from the Digital US coalition is the result of a six-month landscape analysis and strategic planning period, laying the groundwork for a new collective impact approach to support both on-ramps to digital skills as well as pathways to new opportunities.
Highlighting the urgent need to support digital skills development for all Americans, this report argues that designing, building, and scaling the on-ramps and supports that millions of adult learners and workers need is a social impact imperative.
Benefits and Uses
This resource includes eye-opening data about digital literacy and the need for digital resiliency. It is extremely applicable, with useful features which include key data, a full gap analysis, important and meaningful graphics, learner worker stories, and specific strategies that can be used to expand digital access and build digital resilience, and recommended resources. Adult education leaders would greatly benefit the from this resource as it offers solutions to the existing gaps that are a result of digital inequity in the United States. Additionally, it provides great resources to help adult educators bridge the digital inequity, digital literacy, and digital resiliency gaps. It can be used as a part of a professional development program or curriculum development training for adult education professionals or digital navigators by outlining a research-based framework for the intentional development of digital inclusion strategies.
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Often, the terms digital literacy, digital inclusion, digital equity, and digital resilience are used interchangeably. This report builds on the changing social, educational, and workforce landscape as it applies to digital inclusion and provides an evidence-based depiction of the need for improved digital literacy, equity, and resiliency in the American workforce. There is a clearly outlined roadmap that includes both strategies and resources to help adult educators expand access to instruction (places, devices, time, and people), embed digital literacy in other supports through a digital navigator, and improve the effectiveness of instruction and supports. The report concludes with a model ecosystem for developing digital resilience through networking and stakeholder support.
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Publication Year
2020