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CILIA-T: Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support

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We love high quality content-based instructional resources, so are excited to share a recent addition from the University of Minnesota Duluth! This free 16-module curriculum for intermediate  / advanced ESOL and ABE/pre-GED learners integrates U.S. History and Civics, Language Proficiency, and Digital Skills instruction.  (Some intermediate ESOL learners may require additional support.) The quality and practicality of the curriculum reflect the expertise of the educators who developed them. The lessons were refined through pilot testing before being released this spring.

Here are some things I especially appreciate about it:

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From Annenberg to You (with Love)

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America's History in the Making (Learner.org)

Looking for a way to incorporate an intelligent and cohesive way to teach U.S. history? Overwhelmed by the many websites out there, each with one or two valuable texts or resources? Well, you are in luck. If you are reading this review, you now have access to a comprehensive online curriculum for teaching U.S. history, divided into periods, with excellent primary sources to illustrate key themes and points as well as excerpts from texts written by historians that will give you, as teacher, an in-depth understanding of each period. Continue reading From Annenberg to You (with Love) →

Deepening our Understanding of Evolution

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HHMI BioInteractive

Over the last few months, a few of us in the CUNY Adult Literacy/HSE Program have been working on a lesson set on evolution. While poking around the Internet and educating ourselves, we have found some wonderful resources for science education, which we will share over the next few months.  Continue reading Deepening our Understanding of Evolution →

A People’s Website

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ZinnEd Project

Many of us adult educators are familiar with Howard Zinn, the revolutionary historian who wrote “A People’s History of the United States,” and “A Young People’s History of the United States.” If you are a teacher who has enjoyed using excerpts from Zinn’s books in class, you will love this website, with lots of free teaching materials on history that will be engaging and accessible to students. Continue reading A People’s Website →

Mistakes in Math: Expected, Respected and Inspected

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Math Mistakes

Years ago, when beginning some work on percentage with some HSE students (they were called GED students at the time), I posed the following problem:

Veronica’s math class has 25 students. If 7 of them identify as men, what percent of the class does not identify as men?

I used it as a quick assessment to see what kind of understanding I could build off and what kind of misconceptions I could draw out. Continue reading Mistakes in Math: Expected, Respected and Inspected →