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Using Culips to Increase Listening Comprehension
Comprehending spoken English can be a challenge, especially for non-native speakers. The Culips website was designed to help students “learn conversational English for everyday use,” and it's a great tool for "real world" listening practice. Read More
What is Mental Health and How Can You Promote It in the Classroom?
Most people have learned ways to stay physically healthy, but what does it mean to be mentally healthy? Mental and physical health are closely intertwined and are necessary for people’s well-being. Many ABE students face multiple barriers in their lives, which can impact mental health and learning. Read More
ELA + Math = ? (Part 3 of 3)
How can all ABE teachers help their students solve math problems? Can we use simple strategies that we may already know from teaching reading? Yes we can! Read More
How to Eat an Elephant: Increasing Your Students’ Success on the GED Extended Response
Do your students struggle with writing? This article gives tips and insights that the author gained by attending a session that focused on the GED extended response at this year's COABE conference. It includes links to resources that GED writing teachers will find helpful. Read More
Formative Assessment: Helping to See If Students “Get it”
What IS formative assessment? Read on for an introduction, and then register for an exciting ABE webinar opportunity on May 1! Read More
Street Law Resources for Navigating Systems
The lessons and activities in the Street Law Resource Library are very much worth checking out. They provide excellent opportunities to engage in meaningful dialogue and sharpen critical thinking skills, and they will help our learners avoid pitfalls when navigating a wide variety of systems. Read More
MN ABE/ESL Teachers Find Success with Teaching Analogy Phonics
Teaching Analogy Phonics (TAP) provides ABE/ESL teachers with resources for teaching phonograms and word families. Read on to find out how two Beginning ESL teachers recently used TAP with great success! Read More
ELA + Math = ? (Part 2 of 3)
“Teacher, I can do the math, but I haaaaate word problems!” I teach math and GED preparation for the Minnesota Literacy Council. I often hear complaints such as: “I never know what they are saying or what the problem is asking.” So what can we do about it? Read More
ELA + Math = ? (Part 1 of 3)
The more time we spend with the College & Career Readiness Standards, the more overlap we discover among the ELA strands and the math domains and practices. Drawing on this overlap can create powerful teaching and learning! Read on for the first of three articles on crossfitting ELA and Math. Read More
New Resource for Teaching the “Top 10” 21st Century Skills
Have you been searching for a soft skills curriculum that contains ready to use lessons? How about tools for assessment? The "21st Century Skills Resources" from New World of Work might be just what you need. And did I mention that it's all free? Read on to learn more. Read More