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Designing Courses for Career Pathways: Join a Training Cohort or Use Tools at Your Fingertips!

Designing Courses for Career Pathways: Join a Training Cohort or Use Tools at Your Fingertips!

You’ve been asked to teach a new career-specific class, and you don’t know where to start?!  Participate in a six-month training cohort or take full advantage of great resources available online. APPLICATIONS DUE THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5! Read More

Integrating Culture and Career Contextualization into GED Curriculum: Experiences in the 2018 CCI Cohort

Integrating Culture and Career Contextualization into GED Curriculum: Experiences in the 2018 CCI Cohort

In this article, a 2018 CCI Cohort participant details her experiences learning about contextualized instruction and the benefits that came with cohort participation. Could a contextualized approach work for your students or program? Read on to find out more! Read More

Career Pathways: Expand Your Toolkit!

Career Pathways: Expand Your Toolkit!

Design and delivery of career pathway programs are full of both opportunity and challenge for ABE administrators.  ATLAS provides a great set of tools, plus cohort training with peer support and action-oriented learning.  Two resources are highlighted here, plus information on next year’s cohort. Read More

Engaging Employers in Adult Career Pathway Programming: Where Do I Start?

Engaging Employers in Adult Career Pathway Programming: Where Do I Start?

ABE administrators: Explore a variety of great tools to guide the challenging work of collaborating with employers in creating dynamic career pathway programs for adult learners.  Consider joining next year’s adult career pathway training cohort to put the tools into action. Read More

Lesson Plans for Career Exploration: How to Get Started Now

The Pathways to Careers Network provides easy-to-follow lesson plans for conducting career exploration activities in your ABE and ESL classroom. Read More

Work Readiness Curriculum for Low-Level ESL

Work Readiness Curriculum for Low-Level ESL

There is a wonderful new Work Readiness Curriculum that was designed with your low-level ESL students in mind. Start using this resource today to build important work readiness and transitions skills from the beginning. Read More

21st Century Demands on Adult Education

Are we, with current WIOA guidelines, required solely to prepare students to be good workers for the U.S. workforce, or do we also have a responsibility to be agents for social change, or at least to equip learners to be active, informed citizens? Read More

Using the TIF to Foster Career Awareness

Using the TIF to Foster Career Awareness

Career awareness involves helping learners to learn about all of the many career and training opportunities that are available and facilitating ways for them to explore and examine their own interests, skills, and abilities. The TIF and ATLAS's ACES resource library are wonderful resources for teachers in this area. Read More