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Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM) is a collection of lessons that focus on real life skills in contexts that are important in the lives of adults. These lessons can stand alone or can be integrated into your Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (CALM) math classes to help students…
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Explore this handy glossary of key terms used in the ELA Proficiency Guide for Teachers of Adult Education.
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Research has identified that four components—alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—are essential in reading development and essential in the reading process. To understand the underlying strengths and weaknesses that are affecting reading comprehension, ABE ELA teachers diagnostically…
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Use these rubrics to analyze informational or literary texts for their qualitative level of complexity. Combine with quantitative measures of readability to select the appropriate text for students.
These rubrics are adapted from Standards-in-Action work around the College and Career Readiness…
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This page shares templates and resources for developing English Language Arts curriculum for ABE in Massachusetts.
ELA Templates & Guides
ELA Scope & Sequence: Template and Review Guide
Design Tasks & Resources: ELA Scope & Sequence
General Guidance
ELA Unit Plan:…
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This tool lays out a step-by-step, task-by-task process for designing robust ELA unit plans. The document walks you through 7 design tasks related to completing the SABES ELA Unit Plan Template. Links to helpful supports are provided within the document.
Download the tool and follow the directions…
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The EGE Goal Setting Form helps teacher determine their Professional Learning goal by considering student data, improvement goals of the program, and the self-assessment priorities identified in the self-assessment.
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SABES has created ELA-based vignettes that illustrate one or more of the indicators included in the ABE Professional Standards (DESE 2021). The vignettes draw from the Supporting Explanations, Indicators, and Sample ELA Applications in the ELA Proficiency Guide (DESE 2022). The vignettes…
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Introduce yourself to the three key instructional shifts of the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE)—English language arts (PDF linked below).
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Mathematics Professional Standards Self-Evaluations are available to MA teachers to reflect on their math practice. Each of these online self-evaluations is aligned with an ABE Professional Standard. The evaluations can then be used to help create a professional learning plan.
Teachers already…
