Session 3 – Internet Assignment

Goals & Lesson Planning & Writing

1) Goal:  Your student needs a new job. What is something you need to keep in mind about your student as they are experiencing this need? What are some of the tasks that he will need to accomplish to do this?  How will you incorporate this into lessons for your student over the next several weeks? What types of activities would be helpful.  What real life tools wouold be useful? Brainstorm.

Go to the following website and do one of the lessons that would be helpful for your student in this situation - TV 411

2)  Your student moved to a new town.  What are some real life activities that you can use to help them learn their way around.   Do they know their new address? Can they give someone directions to their new home?

The following link has some activities – Controlled Writing Activities
Which activities could you incorporate into a lesson plan for them to make their learning relevant to their real life and everyday survival relating to their move?  Important – in a situation like this your role is not to find them a job, but to give them the tools needed to do so.  Remember this Chinese proverb? “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.  Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. “

3) Writing Basic Sentences Please do the lesson so you can see what your student will experience.  Do at least 3 questions in sections 2 and 3.
(This website has many more lesson plans which you can access as needed -Primary English Resources).

4) Please read the following article:  Journal Writing as a Tool to Enhance Adult Literacy Processes

5)  Review the following videos.

Basic Reading & Writing Techniques – Part 1: Alphabet Study

Basic Reading & Writing Techniques – Part 2: Word Study

Job Hunt – Reading and Writing Techniques

What is Literacy?

Session 2 – Internet Assignment

Review the following resource pages: (You will need adobe reader to view some of the following pdf files.)

1) Learning Styles/Multiple Intelligences:

Abiator’s Online MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE Assessment

Multiple Intelligences

What learning style do you have?  What did you discover?

2) Reading Instruction:

Teaching for Understanding (see if you can answer the excercise questions)

Remembering What’s Been Learned

Make the Most of  Everyday Text (same as handout)

Get Real:  Using Authentic Materials to Engage Adult Learners
3)  Multisensory Technique – This technique engages the student using several learning styles.  You will find this approach helpful for most learners, but it is especially effective for those with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.

Sight Word Multisensory Technique

Inspiration Stories

A Tutor Story

Success Stories

ESL Success Stories

Adult Literacy Tutoring

Adult Literacy Tutoring – A Student’s View

Session 1 – Internet Assignment

1)  Introduction to Literacy Volunteers

http://www.lva-augusta.org

2)  Adult Literacy:

The Impact of Adult Literacy

List 5 reasons adult literacy is important.

Review Videos:  If you cannot view these videos from this page, please click on the links below that will take you directly to you tube for viewing there. (These also provide full screen viewing.)

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4

Based on what you have learned from the videos, come up with an “elevator speech”, a brief explanation of the importance of adult literacy that you can share with someone in your own words in a matter of one minute or less.  Be prepared to share this at the next class.

3)  Principles of Adult Learning

Visit the above link.  List a few concepts to be mindful of when teaching adults.

4)  Learning Language Experience

* Introduction:  In Their Own Words (read)

Alternative viewing -  If you cannot view the videos below please go directly to the you tube page that hosts them and view ESL 1 Experiece Story and ESL 2  Experiece Story.

Summarize what the Learning Language Experience is about.