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Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in an adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course, focuses on the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. The following items are included: module overview; list of basic, thinking, interpersonal, information utilization, and other skills…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Employment Practices, English (Second Language)
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in an adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course, focuses on building the basic decision skills workers need to choose among potential jobs. The following items are included: overview of the module; list of basic, thinking, interpersonal,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Choice, Career Planning
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in an adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course, focuses on access to adult learning opportunities. The following items are included: module overview; list of basic, thinking, interpersonal, information utilization, and other skills…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Media
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in an adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course, focuses on the problems faced by immigrant women in their work lives and legal provisions to protect employed women. The following items are included: module overview; list of basic,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in an adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course, focuses on-the-job health and safety concerns and standards in the United States. The following items are included: module overview; list of basic, thinking, interpersonal, information…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Employment Practices, English (Second Language)
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, focuses on issues related to women's immigration status. The following items are included: module overview; list of basic, thinking, interpersonal, information utilization, and other skills…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Federal Legislation
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in an adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course, focuses on support systems for injured workers. The following items are included: module overview; list of basic, thinking, interpersonal, information utilization, and other skills…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, English (Second Language)
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, focuses on renting a place to live. The following items are included: module overview; list of basic, thinking, interpersonal, information utilization, and other skills addressed in the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Civil Rights Legislation, Contracts
Widney, Annabel – 1994
This curriculum module contains lesson plans and application activities that were developed to help adult students master the writing skills needed to earn a general high school equivalency diploma. Included in the module are materials designed to help students demonstrate effective writing and master specific objectives in the following writing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education

Blumner, Ellen; And Others – 1994
This learning module was developed during a project to deliver workplace literacy instruction to individuals employed in the more than 50 businesses related to the activities of the Port of Baltimore. It contains a sample of individual lessons that the project instructors used in individualized tutorial sessions with students working on reading,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Content Area Reading
Coast Community Coll. District, Costa Mesa, CA. – 1996
This manual is a guide to an interactive training program designed to address key skills necessary in today's high performance workplace. This module is intended to meet the learning needs of production workers by focusing on improving basic skills in English as a second language. Throughout the module's 24 lessons, which can be used to create a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Diller, Janelle – 1994
This curriculum module contains lesson plans and application activities that were developed for the second of two companion courses to help adult students build writing skills by emphasizing writing as a process involving generating ideas through revising, editing, and self-critiquing and by teaching basic grammar, punctuation, and spelling…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audience Awareness, Behavioral Objectives, Brainstorming
Diller, Janelle – 1994
This curriculum module contains lesson plans and application activities that were developed for the first of two companion courses to help adult students build writing skills by emphasizing writing as a process involving generating ideas through revising, editing, and self-critiquing and by teaching basic grammar, punctuation, and spelling…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audience Awareness, Behavioral Objectives, Brainstorming
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This handbook is intended to help administrators and instructors of adult basic education and English-as-a-Second-Language programs use the 30 Tierra de Oportunidad (Land of Opportunity) instructional modules, which address four strands or clusters relating to the different major domains in which adults function: work life, family life, community,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Sharpe, Tina; Thompson, Julie – 1993
This package of training materials is intended for use in a professional development program for teachers of two courses in New South Wales: Human Society and the Environment and Technological and Applied Studies. The package consists of nine booklets and a course outline for each course. The first module contains the following: introduction to…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools