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Download full textGruber, Samuel C. – 1996
Since 1976, the Cumberland Valley School District (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) has offered an external high school diploma program for adults that combines academic achievement with life skill competencies. In 1995-1996, the Cumberland Valley School District received funds to recruit three educational agencies/school districts willing to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Demonstration Programs, Extension Education
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1985
This guide is designed to assist adult education leaders and practitioners to consider carefully the adoption of one or more of the available National Diffusion Network (NDN) projects. It is also intended to help them understand their opportunity and responsibility for improving adult education practice through the proper use of adoption…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Stuen, Cynthia; And Others – 1982
The Seniors Teaching Seniors project was conducted at the Columbia University Brookdale Institute on Aging and Adult Development to train older adults to communicate more effectively their skills and expertise. Older adults were to develop teaching skills so that they could conduct classes at senior centers. Two older-adult volunteers were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs, Course Content
Gaul, Patricia Reitz – 1982
This special demonstration project was undertaken to field test and disseminate a curriculum entitled Emergency English for Refugees (EER). Designed to meet the immediate English language needs of pre- and non-literate adult refugees and immigrants, the EER is a 26-unit competency-based English-as-a-second-language (ESL) curriculum that deals with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education
Brevard Community Coll., Cocoa, FL. – 1985
A 310 Special Demonstration Project was conducted in Florida to create a model of competency-based adult education (CBAE) based on the programs currently in existence. This manual, which was produced through the project, presents an overview of CBAE and explains in detail how to operate a CBAE program. The manual is organized in 11 sections. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Miller, Larry; And Others – 1982
A study described the policies and procedures utilized in exemplary adult vocational education programs in five school planning districts in Ohio. The study, which entailed an analysis of programs involving 34,618 students and 832 instructors, focused on program implementation and administration, student goals and outcomes, instructor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Coordination
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2001
Workplace mentoring has been identified as an important aspect of work-based learning in projects conducted under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. By establishing relationships with caring and competent adults who can provide emotional support and facilitate skill development, less-experienced youths and adults are more likely to bridge the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Programs, Business Education, Case Studies
