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Schaefer Fu, Gail; Chase, Michele – Guidelines, 1991
Discussion (including one teacher's journal entries) of a team-teaching experience involving a university English-as-a-Second-Language class of 27 touches on advantages and disadvantages and organizational approaches. (CNP)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
Download full textSantiago, Elizabeth D. – 1992
This practicum concerned a staff development program designed to promote cultural awareness among the staff members of a high school. The program consisted of three 2-hour sessions of intensive workshops that focused on: (1) the definition of culture; (2) nonverbal communication; and (3) the influence of culture in language development and social…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, English (Second Language), High Schools
Seymour, Sharon – Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2009
This report examines the literature on practices and programs seeking to improve students' transition from adult education to postsecondary education. Ultimately, the report seeks to provide practitioners with models for effective strategies in transitioning students to postsecondary education that can be implemented at community colleges…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Community Colleges, Adult Education, Staff Development
Arnold, Nancy; And Others – 1987
A guide to developing lesson plans for classroom instruction in English as a second language (ESL) based on learning style theory draws on the experience of the Arlington County Schools (Virginia). It begins by describing the theory of learning styles, their applications, and the process of developing lesson plans by "4matting," which postulates…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
Dick, Mae, Ed. – Information Update, 1989
This special issue of a quarterly newsletter describes a number of approaches to staff development in adult basic education and English-as-a-Second-Language programs being practiced in New York City. It includes an editorial about the necessity of making the resource commitment to provide full-time jobs and decent health coverage for staff.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Clearinghouses, Demonstrations (Educational)
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1985
This digest describes types of statewide programs for the training of adult educators. Eight types of programs involving 19 states are outlined, and contacts for each are given. These programs are included: Michigan Staff Development Collaborative, the Iowa Community College Telenetwork (or Telenet), Virginia Consultant Training Institute to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, English (Second Language)
Johnson, Patricia T. – 1988
The development of a language development program for limited-English-proficient Spanish-speaking students in a New Mexico junior high school are described. Initially, the program was organized in response to sudden heavy enrollment of non-English-speaking students, and was intended to teach them English. In subsequent years, through application…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Junior High Schools, Limited English Speaking
Weslo, Licht, Trudy; And Others – 1993
This report presents evaluative information of the effectiveness of the Career Awareness and Resource Education (Project CARE) program in New York City. The program served 346 students of limited English proficiency. Participating students received instruction in English as a second language ESL, native language arts (NLA), the content areas, and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Awareness, Career Education, Citizenship Education
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA. – 1987
This booklet aims to help educators make informed decisions about which students need special language services, what kind of services they should receive, and how well the students and the language program have succeeded. It focuses on the following issues: (1) how the larger social context affects teachers' decisions and students' success; (2)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Nyquist, Jody D. – 1985
The initial phase of the University of Washington's International Teaching Assistant Training (ITA) Training Program is discussed. In addition to collecting demographic data for ITAs, English proficiency and student ratings of ITAs were assessed in order to design the training program. The pilot group was extremely diverse in background and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Graduate Students
Clesca, Monique; And Others – 1984
This report describes Project KANPE, a multi-site program. In its final year of a three-year funding cycle, the project served approximately 275 Haitian students of limited English proficiency in grades nine through twelve at three New York City high schools. Ninety-six percent of the target population were born in Haiti and all spoke either…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Background
Galbraith, Paul; Anstrom, Kris – Directions in Language and Education, 1995
Peer coaching develops from a leadership role on the part of educators of linguistically and culturally diverse (LCD) students, together with an interdisciplinary cooperation between bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) and mainstream staff. Peer coaching is a professional development method in which teachers share their expertise and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Collegiality, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language)
Dodge, Diane T.; And Others – 1984
The trainer's guide, designed to be used in conjunction with a classroom teacher's handbook and resource guide for educators involved in planning and implementing bilingual education programs for new populations of limited English proficient (LEP) students, contains two parts. The first part addresses school administrators and examines the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bilingual Education Programs, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Wrigley, Heide Spruck; Guth, Gloria J. A. – 1992
The result of a 2-year research study funded under the National English Literacy Demonstration Program for Adults of Limited English Proficiency, this handbook on adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) literacy education represents a synthesis of ideas derived from various sources. It is meant as a resource for teachers who have some experience…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum
Berney, Tomi D.; Lin, Jan C. – 1990
Project CHOICE was designed to offer Chinese-speaking students of limited English proficiency (LEP) the opportunity to study business, technical, and computer subjects at Seward Park, and Washington Irving High Schools; subsequently, Norman Thomas High School was substituted for the latter school. Students received instruction in English as a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
