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Recent Newsletter Articles
To “Packet” or Not to “Packet”? That Isn’t the Question: Part 2
Part 2 of this article focuses on the key question introduced at the end of Part 1 about learning packets: Is what I am giving students contributing to learning or merely keeping them busy? Read more useful tips for creating learning packets that include important components of instruction. Read More
ABE Voices Across a Distance: Teaching and Learning Inside County Jails
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 four teachers working in one-room schoolhouse settings in county jails: Jessica DeGrote, Randee Edmundson, Meagan Hymes, and Abby Roza. Read More
What’s Trending in Distance Reading Instruction?
As educators have been forced to move their instruction online in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article shares “trending” ideas, platforms, and resources for distance reading instruction collected recently from Minnesota Adult Education reading teachers. Read More
ABE Voices Across a Distance: Snapshot from a Rural One-Room Schoolhouse
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 a teacher working in a rural, one-room schoolhouse setting: Pamela Dane. Read More
To “Packet” or Not to “Packet”? That Isn’t the Question.
Many teachers and programs are putting learning packets together right now to mail to students or to have on hand for pickup. However, packets are not a new learning tool in ABE. In this two-part article, we will take a look at learning packets and share some best practices we’ve collected from twenty-five teachers around the state. Read More
ABE Voices Across the Distance: Snapshot of the New Normal from a Beginning Level ESL Teacher
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 Amy Van Steenwyk, a Beginning Level teacher working at the Cedar-Riverside Adult Education Collaborative in Minneapolis. Read More
ABE Voices Across the Distance: Snapshot of the New Normal from Neighborhood House
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 three teachers working in the Neighborhood House ESL/GED program: Cara Berger, Kaija Bergen, and Eva Moline. Read More
ABE Voices Across the Distance: Snapshot of the New Normal from a Pre-GED / High-intermediate ESL Teacher
Minnesota schools are closed; how are MN ABE educators responding? 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 Jessica Jones, a High Intermediate/Pre-GED teacher working at Open Door Learning Center in St. Paul. Read More
We Can Do Hard Things! Sharing Resources and Information in the Time of COVID-19
School may not be in session, but learning is! This is information you need right now. Keep reading to learn about a new central resource hub for all things related to Minnesota Adult Education during the current public health crisis. Read More
Teaching ACES/TIF in the Time of COVID
While the COVID-19 outbreak presents a huge number of challenges, it also gives us an unprecedented opportunity to help our students develop TIF skills as they try to understand everything that is going on. While many of us work from home over the next few weeks, here are a few of the ways that we can help our learners practice TIF skills. Read More