Module 5 - Adult Literacy Classroom
Introduction – Fitting It All Together
This module is designed to help you in thinking about how to fit together adult students' learning needs, the appropriate curriculum, and your learners’ preferred learning methods into an educational program that you can manage and that will facilitate learning for your students. As an adult educator, you have many options for how to fit learning activities together into lessons and lessons into the time allotted. You will also need to consider how you will approach student learning over the course of a week or a month, or even longer, taking into consideration your students’ varying schedules and paces of learning. Instructors and students need to work together to find a structure for learning that best fits the individuals involved. Presented in this module is a survey of methods for organizing and structuring adult learning to fit the learning situation. Only a few examples are provided here - as you continue in your professional development and interact with other instructors, you will find many other methods for “fitting it all together” to effectively support adult literacy learners.
Initial Self-Assessment:
Before you begin, we’d like to give you the opportunity to review what you already know about this topic using a pre-survey. On the survey, we ask you to take a moment to rate yourself on your comfort level and familiarity with the topics presented in this module. [There is also a pre-survey for the entire course, Basics of Adult Literacy Education. If you wish to take the overall course pre-survey, click here.]
Clicking on the link below will open a text document in a separate browser window.
You may print it and write your answers, or type your answers directly into the digital document. If you choose to type directly in the document, don’t forget to print or save your work for your records (to a floppy, hard drive, or other drive local to you) when you have completed the survey.
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Setting Goals for your Learning:
All learning is more effective when it is focused – guided by specific goals the learner sets.
Take a moment to think over your responses on this self-assessment.
Based on your review, what issues or topics stand out? What would you like to accomplish upon completing this module? Click here for examples of goals you might set for this module.
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On your worksheet, state your goals for this module – The Adult Literacy Classroom. You will be asked to refer to these goals when you have finished with the module. |
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