Colorado Adult Education Resources

CDE Adult Education and Family Literacy
Four Corners Professional Development Resource Center (4CPDRC), promoting distance education and education technology
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Colorado Adult Education Instructors now have a wiki, loaded with increasing content for teaching ESL, ABE and GED students. Please visit our site at http://www.chiresources.pbworks.com.

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Materials On this Site

Colorado Hybrid Initiative (CHI)

Lesson Plans

• Project-based/Integrated Lesson Plans for Adult Learners (For onsite application)
• Project-based/Integrated Lesson Plans for Adult Learners (online application, using technology for learning)
• Program Retention Plans developed by CO teachers (EDU 132)
• Lesson Plans developed by teachers in EDU133 and 132
• Short Stories for Developing Readers (ABE/ESL)

Workshops/Courses

• Learning Segments for Instructors (LES)
• Using Online Resources with ESL students (Montrose Workshop, 2006)
• Teaching Native Americans in the Southwest
• Teaching the Learning-"Disabled" Adult
• The At-Risk Student
• The Power of One: Working with the Learning Disabled
• Introduction to Brain-Based Learning: A Course

WebQuests for Adult Learners

Model Developed by 4CPDRC (Leecy Wise)

• A Car to Take You Far - For beginning ESL learners with suggestions for adapting activities to more advanced students.

Developed by Adult Ed Teachers in Colorado taking EDU134 through CCCOnline

• Getting A Car Loan - Intermediate ESL
• Creating Chart and Graphs - GED Prep
• Strategies for Solving Problems - GED Prep or ABE
• Good Foods for Good Health - Intermediate ESL
• Soup and Salad - Beginning to Low-Intermediate ESL
• Science Machine Experiment - GED Prep
• Getting  to Know Boulder - Multilevel ESL
• Getting around Colorado Springs - Intermediate to Advanced ESL

Tech Beat - A Newsletter Teachers published monthly by 4CPDRC

• Tech Beat - A newsletter for using technology in Colorado adult education programs

Links to Sites that support Adult Education

• Be sure to visit our wiki at http://www.chiresources.org for a growing list of new resources!
• Online Learning Resources for Teachers and Students
  • Hogan's ESL links for students, with notes
  • GED Prep
  • ABE
  • ESL
  • Family Literacy
  • Rubrics Samples
  • Content-area and career resources
  • General Student Activities
  • Family Literacy
  • Multiple Intelligences

• Resources for AEFLA Programs

• CO Adult Education and Family Literacy
• AEFL Even Start Requirements
• AEFLA Directory
• Adult Education Concepts
• Adult Education and Family Literacy Act.

• Other
  • 4Corners Online Project Site
  • Learning Modules Draft
  • Rendezvous08