This workbook, one of six professional development manuals prepared by experienced adult basic education (ABE) instructors, is designed to assist the instructor setting up and operating an ABE classroom. A pretest and posttest appear first. Each of the units begins with a list of objectives and then provides instructional material. Unit 1 describes the physical set-up of the room and operational policies that promote an efficient, student-friendly, individualized classroom. It includes materials needed to get a student started in a course of study and a recordkeeping system to record student progress. Unit 2 offers guidelines for assessing student strengths and weaknesses, ideas for motivating students and helping them improve concentration, information on teaching to varied learning modalities, and suggestions for teaching to the diverse needs of adult students. Unit 3 explains the Florida-mandated performance standards and the ABE basic skills and functional curricula and reviews examples of how to correlate learning activities with the performance standards for some functional curricula. Unit 4 discusses teaching strategies proven effective with ABE students--print-based learning, oral reading, projects, and whole language learning. Unit 5 identifies survival strategies for the ABE instructor and student management methods. Appendixes contain pretest and posttest answer keys, instructor self-evaluation, and student evaluation. (YLB)