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Download full textCooper, Richard – 1998
A project was conducted to continue to provide adult educators in Pennsylvania with information about adults with learning differences and techniques for their instruction. Five new training sessions were developed as part of the project: (1) accommodating adults with learning disabilities; (2) if they think differently, shouldn't they study…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Learning Disabilities, Program Development
Cooper, Richard – 1994
A project was conducted to provide staff development workshops about adults with learning problems to agencies throughout Pennsylvania. Workshops and accompanying guides on nine topics ranging from understanding learning differences, problems, and disabilities to alternative instructional techniques were developed. Workshops were conducted…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Inservice Teacher Education
Chester County Schools, West Chester, PA. – 1968
Chester County (Pennsylvania) is described in terms of its demography and its school system; its special education program is also reviewed. Placement and program organization are outlined for the trainable mentally retarded, brain injured, socially and emotionally disturbed, and physically, visually, or auditorially handicapped. The need for…
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Community, County School Districts, Educational Equipment
Shefrin, Carol; Shafer, Dehra – 2000
This document presents materials about and from a project that was undertaken to continue development and implementation of training in content areas needed by Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) staff of ABLE-funded programs in Pennsylvania. The report details the project objectives, procedures, and outcomes, which included the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Groff, Warren H. – 1996
This document contains materials about and products of a practicum devoted to creating and sustaining learning communities in the digital era that was conducted by Nova Southeastern University in Winter 1996. First, human resources development programs are discussed as vehicles for creating high-performance learners, workers, and leaders who are…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Cooper, Richard – 1999
A staff development program was conducted to provide adult educators in Pennsylvania with information about adults with learning differences and information about using alternative instructional tools and techniques to instruct such adults. The following four training sessions were developed: (1) Teaching GED (General Educational Development) Math…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Werner, Evelyn C., Comp.; Harmon, Cheryl M., Comp. – 1997
This document presents abstracts for 30 projects that were conducted in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 1995-1996 with federal funds allotted to strengthen adult basic and literacy education through experimentation with new methods, programs, and techniques and professional development for personnel working in adult basic education programs. Among the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
