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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Adaptability: How to Integrate These Workforce Skills into Your Adult Ed Math Classrooms
Adult educators: you know you can help your learners prepare for work by building their reading, writing, and math skills. It’s just as important to develop their thinking skills. These include: Critical thinking Problem solving Information analysis Adapting to change These skills matter more…
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Mathematics Professional Standards Self-Evaluation Tool
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…
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ELA Unit Plan: U.S. Immigration Issues Impacting Our Communities (GLE 8+)
U.S. Immigration Issues Impacting Our Communities explores immigration issues in the U.S. at specific moments in history and in the present day. It provides opportunities for students to connect to their experiences, current events, and core content of the Language Arts and Social Studies HSE exams…
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Video Series: Creating Robust ELA Unit Plans Using the SABES Template
The SABES English Language Arts team has created a video series called Creating Robust ELA Unit Plans Using the SABES Template. The video series features Lauren Twardy, an ABE teacher with Middlesex Community College, and her experiences using the SABES ELA Unit Plan template to…
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MA ABE Professional Standards
The Massachusetts Professional Standards for Teachers of Adult Basic Education (often referred to as the ABE Professional Standards) outlines what is important for effective adult basic education (ABE) teachers of mathematics and/or English language arts (ELA) to know and be able to do. At-a…
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Priority Lenses for ELA Curriculum & Instruction
     Priority Lenses The Priority Lenses below are drawn from ACLS priorities stated in the Massachusetts ABE Professional Standards, the ACLS webpages for Curriculum & Instruction, and the MA Indicators of Program Quality. Teachers and programs can use these lenses to…
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ELA Lens: Differentiation
ELA Lens: Differentiation Differentiated Instruction refers to what teachers do to adapt an existing lesson plan or unit for the learners they are actually teaching at any given moment, so that all their learners are engaged in challenging but accessible tasks. In making decisions about how to…
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ELA Lens: Digital Literacy & Technology
ELA Lens: Digital Literacy & Technology Digital literacy refers to the ability to use technology to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information (MA DESE, 2019). Digital literacy goes above and beyond a focus on the mechanics of technology: it emphasizes the ability to use…
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ELA Curriculum Templates and Resources
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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Design Tasks & Resources for ELA Unit Planning
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…