Adult Education
English as a Second Language

"The Connection"

Click here for the LATEST issue! (Volume 4, Issue 2, Winter 2009)

The September 2008 issue features articles on CBET, new professional development opportunities for ESL and ABE teachers, and the new citizenship test and course outline.

Click here for the ninth issue! (Volume 4, Issue 1, Fall 2008)

The September 2008 issue features articles on CBET, new professional development opportunities for ESL and ABE teachers, and the new citizenship test and course outline.

Click here for the eighth issue! (Volume 3, Issue 2, Winter 2008)

The March 2008 issue features articles on EL Civics and the new Classrooms Without Walls guide, CASAS, an LAUSD participant in the Technology Integration Mentor Academy, wikis, communicative activities and goal support groups.

Click here for the seventh issue! (Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 2007)

The September 2007 issue features articles on CBET Reauthorization, blogging,teaching reading, and the visit of a Sacramento-based Legislative Director to her mother's ESL classroom at Pacoima Skills Center.

Click here for the sixth issue! (Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2007)

This issue features articles on Evidence-Based Reading Instruction, an idea for a conversation promoting activity called "Getting to know you Tea" in which the classroom is transformed into a tea party with refreshments, and ABE teacher Delondra Williams' blog.

Click here for the fifth issue (Volume 2, Issue 1, September 2006) 

The Fall 2006 issue features articles on Learner Persistence, the new Citizenship Mini-Courses, having students do research projects, and Salary Step Advancement.  Click here to get complete instructions for implementing student research projects with your class.

Click here for the fourth issue (Volume 1, Issue 4, May 2006)

The Spring issue features articles on ESL literacy, ESL promotional testing, the TABE battery of tests, and a computer-based activity for students called "Classroom Comics."  In the Classroom Comics activity, students create their own cartoons using ClipArt and the "speech balloons" feature of Microsoft Word. 

Click here for the third issue (Volume 1, Issue 3, January 2006)

The third issue featured articles on strategies for working with concurrent high-school students, ways to energize student learning, using email with students, and transition strategies for ESL and ABE.  "Museum Walls" Activity (A step-by-step guide to a "movement" based activity featured in this issue.)

Click here for the second issue (Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2005)

The second issue featured articles on research on adult literacy, Project Star, a photo collection focusing on instruction, a reading activity from the ESL Intermediate Low course outline, and the experiences several Venice CAS teachers had with a Study Circle Pilot Project on learner persistence.

Click here for the first issue (Volume 1, Issue 1, July 2005).

The first issue featured articles on the new integrated reading and language arts course, a progress report from the ESL Advanced Low Task Force, summer activities for ESL and CBET classes, and the first "Ms. B. Lit" (advice for teachers)  column. 

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