This session will focus on performance-based standards for teachers of adult ESL students. Performance-based standards are very different from program standards. Suggestions for changes are elicited from participants. A draft of the instrument is distributed. To assist agencies in meeting new federal adult education requirements, California is supporting several pilot studies to identify program and classroom practices that positively impact student outcomes.
Presenters provide an overview of the research process.
Participants view the web site forum, discuss issues, pose questions, and suggest alternative solutions. Students choose a new and maximally different language to refresh the memory of being a language learner.