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Training Materials
Training materials are guides for professional development activities, such as study circles and mentor teacher groups, that help teachers develop their own knowledge and skills in a specific area.
All NCSALL Training materials are PDF documents. You must have Acrobat Reader 4.0 (or newer) in order to download and view them.
Study Circle Guides:
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Skills for Disease Prevention and Screening (2007)
The goal of this 15-hour study circle+ is to prepare participants to help their students develop basic skills needed for engaging in disease prevention and screening activities. Read more... -
Adult Student Persistence (May 2006)
This guide addresses issues of student persistence, motivation, and retention in adult basic education (ABE). Read more... -
Skills for Chronic Disease Management (2005)
The goal of this 15-hour study circle+ is to prepare participants to help their students develop basic skills needed for chronic disease management. Read more... -
Skills for Health Care Access and Navigation (2005)
The goal of this 15-hour study circle+ is to prepare participants to help their students develop basic skills needed for accessing health-related services and for navigating health care systems. Read more... -
Research-based Adult Reading Instruction (September 2005)
This professional development guide provides all the steps, materials, and readings for conducting a 10½-hour study circle for adult basic education and literacy practitioners. The study circle covers the latest research on reading instruction. Read more... - Adult Development (August 2005) This study circle addresses Robert Kegan’s work in adult development theory and its application in the practice of adult basic education. Read more...
- Rethinking Instruction and Participation for Adult Basic Education (July 2005)
- Adult Multiple Intelligences (January 2004)
The goal of this study circle is to improve practice as practitioners learn about and evaluate Multiple Intelligences (MI) research and use this in their work. Read more...
- Teaching and Learning in Authentic Contexts (November 2003)
Study circle participants examine teaching and learning in authentic contexts, and discuss the challenges of using authentic instruction and integrating authentic activities and materials into their classes. Read more...
- Performance Accountability in Adult Basic Education (January 2000)
This guide provides step-by-step instructions to facilitate a multi-session study circle for practitioners on the topic of accountability. Read more...
This guide addresses issues around organizing learning services for students in ways that make sense for them, and what the research says about it. Read more...
Other Guides:
- Evidence-based Practice: A Workshop for Training Adult Basic Education, TANF and One Stop Practitioners and Program Administrators (2007) The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) and the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium (NAEPDC), with funding from the National Institute for Literacy (Institute), created a one-day workshop to assist practitioners and administrators in adult basic education, TANF (Transitional Assistance for Needy Families) and One Stop programs to understand evidence-based practice and develop strategies for continuously accessing, understanding, judging and using research. Downlad the accompanying workshop slides separately. Download a summary of the data about what participants learned in the Evidence-based Practice Workshop pilots.
- Training Guide: Health Literacy Study Circle+ Facilitators Training (2007)
The purpose of this guide is to help experienced professional developers and others organize and conduct a one-day session to train and orient those who will serve as facilitators of a HALL/NCSALL Health Literacy Study Circle+. This guide includes the information and materials you will need to conduct the training. Read more... - The Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers: Partners for Action: Making Your Healthcare Facility Literacy-Friendly (2006)
The guide and the review tools found within it offer an approach for analyzing literacy-related barriers to healthcare access and navigation. The findings of such a review could spark discussions and help shape strategies to eliminate literacy barriers and enhance health literacy. Read more... - Practitioner Research Training Guide: Research-based Adult Reading Instruction (July 2006)
This practitioner research training guide provides guidance for facilitators as they help practitioners investigate a problem related to reading. Read more... - Training Guide: Study Circle Facilitators (July 2006)
This training guide provides comprehensive instructions for preparing experienced adult education practitioners to facilitate NCSALL study circles. Read more... - Seminar Guide: Implications of NCSALL Research for Program Administrators (April 2006)
This seminar guide was created to assist program administrators in accessing, understanding, judging, and using research for themselves and for their staff. Participants explore the Program Administrators’ Sourcebook: A Resource on NCSALL’s Research for Adult Education Program Administrators and other training materials available from NCSALL. Read more... - Program Administrators’ Sourcebook: A Resource on NCSALL’s Research for Adult Education Program Administrators (December 2005)
- Health Literacy Public Health Forums: Partners for Action (2004)
A "how-to" guide on designing and implementing health literacy forums of departments of health. Read more... - Seminar Guide: Establishing an Evidence-based Adult Education System (January 2004)
- Mentor Teacher Group Guide: Adult Multiple Intelligences (January 2004)
This guide provides detailed instructions for organizing a mentor teacher group to consider the implications of Multiple Intelligences Theory in instructional practice. Read more...
- How Are We Doing? An Inquiry Guide for Adult Education Programs (2001)
This guide helps local adult education programs facilitate a systematic exploration of program performance. Read more...
This sourcebook presents NCSALL's research findings in short sections related to key challenges that program administrators face in their work as managers of adult education programs. It also presents the implications of these research findings for program structure and services, as well as some strategies for implementing change based on these implications. Read more...
The purpose of the seminar is to help practitioners, program directors, state staff, and other policymakers read and discuss NCSALL’s proposal for creating an evidence-based system for the field and then to understand and judge the relevance of such a system to their work in adult basic education. Read more...
NCSALL by Role:
This section offers a variety of professional development ideas, including tracks for professional developers, program administrators, teachers/tutors, and policymakers. The training materials in NCSALL by Role include half-day seminars and self-study courses.