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Assisting with Transition: From GED to College
National College Transition Network:
This site is designed to help first time college-going adults plan for college. It provides many resources for adult educators to assist their students to transition from GED to college classes. Just for students - this site includes planning guides, financial assistance information, profiles of success and career planning. For adult educators, this site provides curriculum resources, promising practices, program profiles and research.
Poetry
Multiple Intelligences for Adult Literacy and Adult Education - Writing Cards:
"Writing can be the seed of much of the work you do with your students. The kernel of writing should be based on the writer's experience. It's easier to write about what we already know--what the writer has seen, touched, thinks, believes." This site provides a variety of writing activities that address the differing learning styles of your students.
Poetry in the Adult Literacy Classroom -
Teacher to Teacher: "Some adult learners and teachers have negative memories of their previous encounters with poetry because too much emphasis was placed on the poem's "intent" or dissecting poems to determine their rhyme schemes. However, poetry can be an effective complement to instruction in adult literacy classrooms and can serve as an effective instructional tool for both reading and writing." This article discusses the benefits of teaching poetry in the adult literacy classroom.
Teaching Poetry - Generating Genuine, Unique Responses:
This article focuses upon how poetry should "serve each reader." Suggestions for teaching adult students are included.
Hiphop Megastars Blend with Blake and Beowolf in FE Classrooms in Sheffield:
This link from the National Research and Development Center for Adult Literacy and Numeracy highlights a creative curriculum developed by the tutors at Sheffield College for a Skills for Life course.
Poem in Your Pocket:
"In honor of April's National Poetry Month, New York City hosts the annual Poem in Your Pocket Day (PIYP).... This series of events is intended to celebrate the versatility and inspiration of poetry by encouraging New Yorkers of all ages to carry a poem in their pockets to share with friends, classmates, coworkers and family." This innovative site provides teachers' curriculum, innovative activities as well as featuring specific poems.
Poetry Daily:
This site provides an anthology of contemporary poetry. "Each day, we bring you
a new poem from books, magazines, and journals currently in
print. Poems are chosen from the work of a wide variety of poets
published or translated in the English language. Our most eminent
poets are represented in the selections, but also poets who are
less well known. The daily poem is selected for its literary
quality and to provide you with a window on a very broad range of
poetry offered annually by publishers large and small. Included
with each poem is information about the poet and the poem's
source. Our purpose is to make it easier for people to find poets
and poetry they like."
Poetry Slam:
This site provides another innovative idea for teaching poetry - the Poetry Slam
- "a fun and exciting way for all kinds of folks to make poetry come alive on the stage, to make people stand up and take notice." Please note, to find more resources for teaching students to write poetry and/or for creating your own Poetry Slam, click on the link at the bottom of the page.