MN ABE Connect Archive
Recent Newsletter Articles
Key Updates from GED Conference, Reaching New Heights
Key updates from the GED Testing Service annual conference, including new Extended Response tools and information on the GED Ready® practice test. Read More
Practical Takeaways from COABE
Danielle Legault, an instructor at Minneapolis Adult Education, synthesizes three key learnings from her attendance at a variety of sessions at the annual COABE (Commission on Adult Basic Education) Conference, touching on everything from low-level ESL to GED. Read More
LearningExpress Library for ABE
LearningExpress Library contains nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books. It covers job search and workplace skills improvement; skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science; and prep for career certification, licensure exams, college and grad school entrance tests, GED, and more. Read More
Plan First, Write Second
One of my goals is to show my students how spending time in the planning stage pays off in a better finished product. The technique discussed here is a method of getting students to think about all of the ways that a topic could be discussed or explored. Read More
Introducing Teaching Analogy Phonics!
This free alphabetics resource provides ABE/ESL reading teachers/tutors with convincing background information and testimonials, a lesson plan model and template, other reinforcement ideas, and over 100 common or sequential phonogram and word family lists for immediate analogy phonics instruction. 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
Gaining Confidence in English: Volunteer Coaches Make the Difference on Skype
Lakeville ABE's Skype Coaching program matches volunteer tutors with adult English learners for one-to-one coaching in English, giving English learners more opportunities to practice speaking and listening skills and to gain confidence using English in real-life contexts. Read More
New Evidence about Persistence
A summary of the findings from two studies on persistence and motivation in adult literacy programs. Reading skill development requires thousands of hours of instruction and practice; therefore, it takes persistence and motivation for adult readers to regularly attend reading classes and make educational level gains. Read More
Free Curriculum Materials for Adult Emergent Readers
The Elder Literacy Initiative’s innovative curriculum is a collection of activities for adult emergent readers that is all-inclusive and ready to use, including over 250 activities across 13 themes. Read More
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