Tutor Tips

• Improving Adult Education Teacher Effectiveness: A Call to Action for a New Credential - McGraw-Hill Research Foundation (March 2012)
• The Annenberg Learner - Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum.
• Punctuation Rules
• Managing Stress to Improve Learning in the Adult Education Classroom
• Recent Developments Which Affect Spelling
• Problems in Learning to Read and Write
• Learner Persistence Program Self-Assessment of Instructional Strategies
• Expressing Yourself in English
• Sample GED Writings
• 10 Ways to Support English Language Learning with The New York Times
• Building Basics: ESOL Toolkit for General Construction, Landscaping, Painting and Plumbing - designed and created by the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Listen, Encourage, and Smile
• Newspapers
• Language Experience Stories
• Controlled Writing Activities
• Using a Thesaurus
• Adults With Dyslexia: Learning Styles
• Build Your Learner's Self Confidence
• Helping your Learner with Spelling
• Encourage Students to do their own thinking
• Listening Skills
• Getting Started With Your Student
• Dry Erase Boards and Vocabulary
• Rubber Bands and Vowels
• Tic-Tac-Toe (for beginning to intermediate ESL students)
• Game Ideas
• Creative Writing Ideas
• How To Encourage ESL Learners To Speak English
• Five Ways Of Reading
• Environmental Words
• An Approach To Reaching Reluctant Or Struggling Readers
• Common Core Solutions: Adult Education (Workforce, Mathematics, Reading)
• Knowledge in Action: The Promise of Project-Based Learning
• Multilevel Classrooms - A collection of resources on the topic of teaching classes comprised of students with multiple skill levels
• Adult Education Teacher Handbook - This handbook by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development provides foundational knowledge on a number of topics that are key to being successful in today’s adult education classroom
• Acculturation Model for L2 Acquisition - This paper provides a review and evaluation of the acculturation theory of Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

• Knowmia - Collection of video lesson plans for English and Math. Share yours or subscribe to other teachers in the field.
  
• Questioning Techniques: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers
• PBS Teacherline - Free online professional development for educators in different subject areas.
• Characteristics of Adult Learners Vs. Childhood Learners - Self-paced course from the Community Partnerships for Adult Learning site supported by the DOE. Course provides worksheets, real life scenarios, activities.
• Adult Education Tutor Support Learning Style Quiz
• The Notebook - ProLiteracy’s tri-annual publication of lesson plans and suggested activities that covers ESL, GED, and Citizenship. Available in PDF format.
• Tutor Training Video Playlist – Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville - ProLiteracy’s tri-annual publication of lesson plans and suggested activities that covers ESL, GED, and Citizenship. Available in PDF format.
• The Four Ways Adults Learn Video Lecture
• Literacy DuPage’s Youtube Page - Contains short videos of actual one on one tutoring that can be used as examples of activities and how to teach adults.
• Literacy DuPage – Free Lesson Packets

• Helping Students Stay

• Basics of Adult Literacy Course - Self-paced course from the Community Partnerships for Adult Learning site supported by the DOE. Course provides worksheets, real life scenarios, activities.
• Literacy Volunteers of Wayne County Self-Study Tutor Training - Paper Based course with open ended questions.
• Virginia Literacy Foundation Adult Basic Literacy Tutor Training Workshop - Training course set up like a blog. Users can easily navigate between pages and modules.
• ProLiteracy’s Free Online Courses - Requires users to sign-up.