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    are well on our way and look forward to the next few years when a broader range of services will be added to ensure we can adequately support adults who need and want to improve their literacy skills by working more actively with community-based programs/agencies. Effective July 2015, NYS Education Department has restructured how Adult Literacy Education (ALE) funds are distributed. State funding proposals is now limited to seven regions forcing Literacy Connections to form the Hudson Valley Literacy

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    When we prepare children for life. We have to bring lot of changes to the teaching methodology. My personal philosophy is to create positive learning environment through active learning. Teaching and learning are the two sides of a coin... Students can learn best when they are motivated. To motivate them for learning teacher need to be well prepared and motivated him/herself. Students enjoyed learning if the activity is fun. Therefor an effective strategy can help students to get involved in the

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    Journal Article A Paper in Partial Fulfillment of ED 7311 Theory and Methods of Educating Adults September 17, 2010 Introduction As companies continue to try to come up with a plan for remaining profitable, some are overlooking one of their best opportunities due to their short sightedness and obsession for short term gain. It is the very asset which most firms claim is their most important and the one which provides them their competitive advantage. It is also, in some companies

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    Annotated Bibliography “Social Class and Adult Education” Section A (summarize points of view) 1. Nesbit, T. (2005). Social class and adult education. In N. Tom. (Ed.), Class concerns: Adult education and social class (ed., pp. 5-14). San Francisco, CA: Wiley The lives of human beings are profoundly influenced by economy, social, and cultural factors. The influence of economic and culture shape education, but education shapes how humans experience social, cultural, economic forces, and power relations

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    Annotated Bibliography “Social Class and Adult Education” Section A (summarize points of view) 1. Nesbit, T. (2005). Social class and adult education. In N. Tom. (Ed.), Class concerns: Adult education and social class (ed., pp. 5-14). San Francisco, CA: Wiley Key points: Education, Capitalism, Social class, Adult education Summary Education: Humans’ lives are mainly influenced by economy, social, and cultural factors. It is unlikely to be avoided because the societies we live, the relationship

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    Introduction To meet the requirement of 20 field experience hours for EDUC 2130, I volunteered at the Wood’s Mill Adult Education Center in Gainesville. The Wood’s Mill Adult Education center is operated by Lanier Technical College. This institution is an educational facility that helps students who did not complete high school prepare to take the GED. The program offers classes in mathematics, social studies, science, and reading. The class that I was placed in had six students. Four of the six

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    The term education is constantly used by both children and adults. Education according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary is the action or process of teaching someone especially in a school, college, or university; the knowledge, skill, and understanding that you get from attending a school, college or university; or a field of study that deals with the methods and problems of teaching. The term education goes deeper than this general definition. Education isn’t just going to school and learning lessons

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    America, there has been tension regarding sex education with young adults. During the 1940s, is when the observances of teen pregnancy started to be studied. In 1941, was when the highest peak of teen pregnancy was, and has since then gone down. However, the United States still has the highest teen pregnancy rate in all the industrialized nations. In European education systems, they teach sex education in every way. They not only have comprehensive sex education classes, but they also support safe sex

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    Adult Basic Education programs exist in the United States to provide “second chance” educational services to adults 18 and older who test below a twelve grade level in reading, language, or math. This is made possible through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which was signed into law by President Obama on July 22, 2014, revising and reauthorizing the Workforce Reinvestment Act (WIA) of 1998 (H.R. 803, 2014). Title II of the WIA established the current accountability standards

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    Andragogy and TPACK have been the leading theories for development of adult education programs and curricula. This white paper will provide various reasons to support the need for professional training programs to be implemented into educational settings for instructional leaders, coaches and supervisors. As the technological era continues to grow and flourish, instructional leaders are not able to effectively support instructors in implementing the technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge

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