[NIFL-FOBASICS:1295] Re: Ideas about Transition programs from Literacy Program to ABE

From: Lindsay Kennedy (werekenn@sympatico.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 12:01:36 EST


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From: "Lindsay Kennedy" <werekenn@sympatico.ca>
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When I was doing research for a training manual I wrote, I held a web-based 
chat with literacy practitioners in Ontario and asked them that question. 
Two things seem to really pay-off - [1] taking learners to the program so 
they can see where they will have to go, what the teacher looks like and [2] 
inviting the teacher(s) from the program the learners will be transitioning 
to to come and speak to the learners - talking about responsibilites and 
outlining a "typical" day - but not making it sound like a barrier.

There were other things but these 2 were acknowledged at the top things to 
do.

Lindsay Kennedy


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From: "Michele Anne Craig" <shellcraig@ix.netcom.com>
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>
> Dear All,
>
> Lynn Howard, the library Literacy coordinator in Woodland and I (I teach
> ABE in the same town) are trying to do some brain storming about how to
> make the transition from the literacy program to the ABE program a 
> smoother
> one for our students. It occurred to me during our phone call that people
> on this list may be a wealth of information on this subject. What kinds of
> things do you do that make your students' transition from one program to
> another easier?
>
> Michele Craig
> Woodland Adult School
> Woodland, CA
>
>
> 



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