How-Tos: For Instructors
Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view PDF files. To download a free copy, please visit the Adobe web site. Foundation Skills: Framework for Building Pennsylvania's Workforce
Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education
Provides agencies and organizations involved in employment, training, and education with a framework, complemented by tools and materials, that will help them better understand Pennsylvania's work-based foundation skills and their role in the continual development of the workforce. Work-based foundation skills are broken into the following categories: basic workplace skills (which include applied academic skills), basic employment skills, basic workplace knowledge, and basic lifelong learning skills.
http://www.pawerc.org/foundationskills/cwp/view.asp?a=249&Q=92970
&foundationskillsNav=|5553| Helping Job Seekers With Limited Basic Skills
John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2004
Designed for program planners and staff at public and private career centers and useful to policy makers, employers, and adult educators, this hands-on guide describes how to plan, implement, and improve services in one-stop career centers for job seekers with basic skills needs. Its four sections focus on meeting the needs of unemployed or underemployed adults: understanding their characteristics, challenges, and service needs; planning a comprehensive system of tailored services; implementing a service system integrating workforce development and adult education; and sustaining programs and services through professional development, evaluation, organizational development, and public outreach. Includes step-by-step instructions and tips.
Download/view: PDF (479KB) I-BEST: A Program Integrating Adult Basic Education and Workforce Training
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2005
Provides an overview of the Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) demonstration program in Washington State. Program uses a co-instruction model that pairs ABE/EL instructors and professional-technical instructors. Report presents lessons learned and related research and illustrates how they can be applied to practice.
Download/view: PDF (229KB) | HTML Literacy Toolkit
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Gives an overview of the importance of basic skills in the workplace, the current status of the U.S. workforce, and the benefits that improved worker skills can bring to businesses. Includes practical tools and resources for improving workplace literacy, such as a sample PowerPoint presentation on literacy, a skill assessment tool for businesses, and a glossary of literacy terms. Site also links to the Chamber's workplace literacy guide, Higher Skills, Bottom-Line Results.
http://www.uschamber.com/icw/tools/literacytool.htm Workforce Education LAB (Learning Activities Bank)
Southern LINCS and Verizon Links Virginia for Literacy
An online bank of work-related basic skills lessons on topics ranging from communication and problem solving to computer technology. Each lesson plan is organized by learning objectives, skills to be acquired, learner needs and goals to be addressed, a description of the learner activity, a list of required materials and resources, and assessment instructions. Site also provides an online form for adult education instructors to submit their own learning activities for possible inclusion in the bank.
http://slincs.coe.utk.edu/gtelab/ Workplace Essential Skills, Pre-GED, and GED Connection
Kentucky Education Television for PBS Literacy Link
Multimedia curriculum that teaches basic reading, writing, math, and job skills. Links to public television programs, workbooks, and online lessons in the areas of workforce development, pre-GED, GED, and English literacy/civics education.
http://litlink.ket.org/wesged.aspl |
