Preparing English Learners for Work and Career Pathways: Companion Learning Resource
Author: Jayme Adelson-Goldstein
Subject Area: ESL/ELL, LINCS Resources
Program Level: Professional Development
Material Type: Collection
Language: English
License: (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) For license summary click here

Abstract:

This Companion Learning resource, Preparing English Learners for Work and Career Pathways, provides teachers and administrators with instructional tools, strategies, and resources that support career-focused, contextualized English language acquisition instruction.
Resource URL
http://lincs.ed.gov/sites/default/files/LINCS_CLR-1_508_0.pdf
Publication Year
2016
This Companion Learning Resource provides an update to several seminal resources from the adult English language learner (ELL) resource collection.  It also extends and expands upon these resources by offering many practical ideas and concrete classroom examples that practitioners can use and adapt in order to better integrate language development and career and postsecondary preparation in adult ELA classes. Highlights of key concepts and practical strategies include:
  • How to prepare adult learners effectively for career training and postsecondary education, including related language demands
  • Effective instructional models of integrating career training with academic instruction
  • Key concepts in integrating academic skill development across many ELL levels to assist with learners’ transitions to postsecondary education, in preparation for work
Although this Companion Learning Resource can be used as a stand-alone document, it also complements the other resources in the suite of materials, “Preparing English Learners for Work and Career Pathways.”  Other resources in this suite are the Issue Brief, and the Professional Development Modules.
Benefits and Uses
This practice-oriented resource examines language demands of the workforce, postsecondary transitions for adult ELLs, and effective preparation of adult learners for career training and postsecondary education. It illustrates effective instructional models for integrating career training with academic instruction and demonstrates key concepts in integrating academic skill development across many ELL levels to assist with learners’ transitions to postsecondary education, in preparation for work. Concrete classroom examples come from across a range of levels and teaching contexts. Formatted as a digital magazine, this clickable PDF contains embedded resources and links to websites that encourage users to delve deeply into the areas of greatest relevance. Through the resource, practitioners are able to link to concrete examples taken from each of the seminal resources and, where relevant, additional examples drawn from other relevant contexts (e.g., K–12 education).
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