National Adult Education College and Career Readiness Training Design Initiative:

to prepare states and corrections to prepare teachers to enable adult students to meet common core standards, state standards and the 2014 GED® and other high school equivalency tests.

Welcome:

In preparation for our training design institute in Louisville, please review the materials below. Most are short videos. These background pieces will get us all on the same page.

  1. OVAE’s Standards in Action ® is the most valuable tool for moving to standards based education. Many states have used SIA and found it beneficial.
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  3. ASSIGNMENT: Please read:
  4. the first 10 pages of Chapter 1,
  5. the side bar for Chapter 2 on page 13
  6. the sidebar for Chapter 3 on page 53
  7. the sidebar for Chapter 5 on page 115
  8. The Common Core is the base for upgrading standards. This short video by one of the consultants of the CCS reveals SIX SHIFTS that the CCS ask us to make. Even though his references are for k-12, you will see the parallel with what we have been teaching in adult education juxtaposed to what we need to be teaching.
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  10. ASSIGNMENT: View the video
  11. The new GED ® Test uses Webb’s Depth of Knowledge as a base.
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  13. ASSIGNMENT: View the video on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge
  14. The Common Core uses the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy as a base.
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  16. ASSIGNMENT: View this short video introduction to the NEW Bloom’s Taxonomy paying particular attention to the verbs related to the new categories of the taxonomy and the higher order thinking skills.
  17. Kentucky Standards In Action Resources for moving to Standards-Based Education
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  20. Notice the guide for Local Program Directors and leaf through it
  21. Notice the other resources for unpacking standards and aligning them with resources.
  22. GED ® Item Sampler gives examples of test items on the 2014 test.
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  24. ASSIGNMENT: Review the Item Sampler to get a sense of the test items. Look for evidence of the “shifts” presented in # 2 above.
  25. Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching Writing The type of student writing required by CCSS and the new tests has changed. Thisbrief article was written by Steve Graham and Amy Gillespie of Vanderbilt University focuses on provides techniques that have been proven to work when teaching students to write.
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  1. ASSIGNMENT: Read the article paying particular attention to the ten writing practices that have proven to have a broad impact on writing performance.
  1. Algebraic Thinking in Adult Education Likewise, math is more rigorous. This report by Myrna Manly and Lynda Ginsburg outlines the importance of implementing algebraic reasoning into adult education instructional programs to increase students'mathematics proficiency to meet academic requirements as well as skill demands of home and work.
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  2. ASSIGNMENT: Read the article paying particular attention to the importance Mathematics Instruction in Adult Education Today andRevising Mathematics Instruction in Adult Education