Teaching Strategies
Recent Newsletter Articles
SW ABE’s “Reading Skills for Today’s Adults” Just Keeps Getting Better!
Through a unique crowdsourcing project over the summer, ABE instructors from around the country took the free materials available from Marshall’s revamped “Reading Skills for Today’s Adults” and created the free “Marshall Leveled Reading Program” with additional engaging activities for learners and instructors in new online formats! Read More
Using Volunteers to Teach Conversation – Virtually!
Volunteer tutors keep learners connected to schools and learning. Even volunteers with relatively limited teaching experience can make a big difference with helping learners practice conversation. Connect volunteers and learners for one-on-one practice over the phone or on a WhatsApp video call, or have volunteers lead small groups of learners in Zoom breakout rooms. Read More
View Summer Institute Virtual Poster Sessions
The virtual poster sessions from Summer Institute 2020 are now available to everyone. This year's poster sessions are short 3-10 minute videos that highlight a program practice, an instructional how-to, or a tech tip. Come take a look! Read More
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills through a Social Justice Lens
It is safe to say that 2020 has left us with a lot to unpack as individuals and as educators. As our classes continue to look so different as they take place online, I am thinking about the need to find and use materials that help my students and me to process everything that is going on around us. The resources in the Zinn Education Project are perfect for building the ACES skill of Critical Thinking. Read More
More ELA and Math CCRS Teacher Workouts!
The next group of CCRS Teacher Workouts is here - this time with a focus on academic vocabulary and more math content. These are quick and focused support activities for CCRS ELA and math instruction. Check them out to strengthen your knowledge of vocabulary and Math Shifts and Practices! Read More
Remote Tutoring Using Volunteers at the Franklin Learning Center
Interested in starting a remote tutoring program using volunteers? Learn how the Franklin Learning Center, a one-room schoolhouse in south Minneapolis, quickly mobilized nearly 70 volunteers to provide remote tutoring to learners during the pandemic. Read More
ParaPro Training through Zoom
When offering ACP training in remote areas of Southwest Minnesota, it is often a challenge to get enough students to run a class. This spring, Mankato ABE and Glacial Lakes ABE worked cooperatively to pilot a ParaPro course over Zoom. Find out how they make the class a success! Read More
The Sudden Pivot to Move Adult Career Pathways Classes Online
Covid-19 restrictions have caused all of us in Adult Basic Education to suddenly pivot from face-to-face classes to online classes. Although there is so much uncertainty about how we will continue to serve our ABE students in an equitable way through this next year, there remains much promise to continue distance learning options for students. Read More
Teachers Helping Teachers: Visit a Virtual ABE Classroom
"What we (my students and I) are learning now will make our class stronger in the future. Necessity has pushed us into an educational space we should have already been operating in." In the webinar “Teaching in Real Time: Maximizing Instructional Time Online”, you heard that Minnesota teachers are doing a tremendous job of making online classes happen for their learners. Now you can see them in action! Read More
ABE Voices Across the Distance: Snapshot of the New Normal from Mankato Area Adult Education
MN ABE Connect is featuring a series of interviews with Minnesota ABE practitioners on how they are delivering instruction and support during this time. This week, we hear from Liv Musel-Staloch, the ESL Program Supervisor at the Mankato Area Adult Education Program. Read More