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Teaching in the Multi-Generational Classroom

Classroom Dynamics in Adult Literacy Education: A NCSALL Research Brief - (This is a pdf document.  If you don't have adobe, you can download it by clicking here.) "This, the first major study in a quarter century to investigate classroom behavior in adult literacy education considers questions critical to adult literacy education: How is instruction delivered? What is its content? What processes underlie teacher and learning? And what external forces shape classroom behavior? The findings help policymakers, teachers, and researchers better understand these important issues."

The Adult Basic Classroom: For Florida Adult Basic Education Practitioners - (This is a pdf document.  If you don't have adobe, you can download it by clicking here.) This newsletter was developed the Adult Basic Education Practitioner's Committee.  This particular issue addresses the questions: What do I do with the younger learners in my classroom?  What are the learning needs of 16 - 18 year olds and how do they differ from the needs of older adult education students?  Should these younger learners be integrated into my classrooms with adults?

The Adult Literacy Classroom as a Social System - This research brief is from the 2000 Adult Education Research Conference Proceedings.  This article "reports the results of a study of adult literacy education classroom behavior in which twenty adult literacy classes were observed twice in seven states. It was found that in adult literacy classes the predominant mode of instruction closely parallels the initiation, response, evaluation (IRE) mode that Mehan (1979) identified in his study of an elementary education classroom."

Classroom Dynamics in Adult Literacy Education: A NCSALL Research Brief - (This is a pdf document.  If you don't have adobe, you can download it by clicking here.) "This, the first major study in a quarter century to investigate classroom behavior in adult literacy education considers questions critical to adult literacy education: How is instruction delivered? What is its content? What processes underlie teacher and learning? And what external forces shape classroom behavior? The findings help policymakers, teachers, and researchers better understand these important issues."

The Adult Basic Classroom: For Florida Adult Basic Education Practitioners - (This is a pdf document.  If you don't have adobe, you can download it by clicking here.) This newsletter was developed the Adult Basic Education Practitioner's Committee.  This particular issue addresses the questions: What do I do with the younger learners in my classroom?  What are the learning needs of 16 - 18 year olds and how do they differ from the needs of older adult education students?  Should these younger learners be integrated into my classrooms with adults?

The Adult Literacy Classroom as a Social System - This research brief is from the 2000 Adult Education Research Conference Proceedings.  This article "reports the results of a study of adult literacy education classroom behavior in which twenty adult literacy classes were observed twice in seven states. It was found that in adult literacy classes the predominant mode of instruction closely parallels the initiation, response, evaluation (IRE) mode that Mehan (1979) identified in his study of an elementary education classroom."

Literacy and Classroom Issues: Reports, Reviews, etc. -  This research brief is provided by literacytrust.org.  It provides summaries of literature reviews of the effects of pupil grouping, the impact of school environments, the effect of class size on attainment, the impact of school size and single-sex education on performance and the effect class size on teaching practice, retention and economic achievement.