A partnership with a local PBS station should be formed to air the programming. Training The 2-day training covers recruitment, all program lessons, prebroadcast tasks and management, record keeping, retention, testing, assessment, and potential funding sources. The following Adult Education Programs have been Validated by the New York State Education Department. As a means of improving reading skills, the BES Adult Literacy Project's instructional methods combine a problem-solving approach with a linguistic analysis of words, sounds, and sentences and a highly structured sequence of oral and written skills. Intensive instruction is provided over a 20-week cycle.
All instruction is classroom-based and occurs within community centers and churches.
The handbook describes how to recruit tutors and functionally illiterate adults, as well as how to establish a volunteer adult literacy component within an ongoing adult education program. A Work-text for Tutors. Workshops usually meet weekly for 3 hours over a 6-week period. Reading tests are administered at 4-month intervals. When test results show students have outgrown their need for FIST, they are referred to regular adult education programs.