TEACHING ESSENTIALS COURSES
Teaching Essentials™ is a set of three interactive, online college-level courses designed to teach adult education instructors to overcome the critical challenges they commonly face. While learning, instructors can view their progress, participation time, and lesson mastery outlines in easy-to-read charts, and earn Certificates of Achievement upon completing each course.
- Identifying and Remediating Reading Skills Difficulties: Learn to identify each student's precise reading difficulty, design the best strategy, and implement remedial instruction targeted to their needs.
- Motivating the Adult Learner: Learn the basic theories of motivation and how they apply to the unique challenges that adult educators face. Explore hands-on strategies and techniques to engage and motivate even the most reluctant learner.
- Blended Learning in Adult Education: Learn concepts, tools, and skills to blend the best educational technology with direct instruction to teach better and help students learn faster.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS
Each year, we host multiple webinars discussing the latest topics, teaching strategies, and trends in adult education. These webinars are available for replay inside our FREE Professional Development Webinar Library. After attending a live webinar or watching a replay, all viewers will receive a Certificate of Attendance, a recording of the webinar, and the presentation deck. Register for upcoming webinars, browse past webinars for recap materials, or sign up to receive our Professional Development emails and be the first to know what is happening in adult education!
FREE RESOURCES FOR ADULT EDUCATORS
Find practical strategies to strengthen your program and help students progress faster inside our FREE Resource Library for Adult Educators! Take your pick from research and curriculum guides to sample lessons and reflection tools—all tailored to help you achieve better outcomes.
TEACHER TOOLKIT
The Teacher Toolkit offers a variety of FREE resources to help educators keep students engaged in a hybrid classroom. From professional development and tutorial videos to instructional guides and templates, this toolkit will help:
- Create an engaging hybrid classroom
- Understand popular technology tools
- Implement Essential Education
- Recruit new students to your program
DISTANCE LEARNING SERIES
The Distance Learning Series includes six FREE downloadable courses that were created in partnership with real-life distance learning educators. Starting with the basics and moving to more advanced, this series touches on some of the most common distance learning topics in adult education. Each course will provide valuable ideas, tools, and resources to immediately implement into a virtual classroom.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDES
Deep dive into the most critical topics in adult education with current research, reflection exercises, and strategies in our FREE workbook-style guides.
Topics include:
- Overcoming adult learning challenges to accelerate skill gains
- Improving learner attendance, retention, and completion rates
- Integrating digital literacy into adult education program curriculum
- Differentiating instruction to engage all adult learners
- Implementing distance education in adult education programs
- Applying Mastery Learning strategies to drive highly effective instruction
- Transitioning High School Equivalency program curriculum between tests
How Can We Help You?
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