Current News

HEY TEACHERS!
Do YOU have a Classroom Contract with YOUR students?

U.S. DOE Study Finds That Good Teaching can be Enhanced wtih New Technology

Just released from the Ad Hoc Committees!
Intake Procedures for Serving with Disabilities in AE Programs (Quick Reference Guide)

Retention Toolkit

Getting Started in Adult Literacy

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2009 ACE of Florida Conference
September 20-23, 2009
more info...

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Links of Interest

ACE of Florida
State Adult Ed Association

FATDEC
Distance Learning for Adult Learners

Florida CHOICES
Florida's Career Information Delivery System

Fla Literacy Coalition
State Literacy Organization

Dr. Debra L. Hargrove
Project Director
dhargrov@irsc.edu

The goal of the Professional Development and Teacher Credentialing Ad Hoc Committee is to review professional development (PD) activities and teacher credentialing to improve instruction of reading and mathematics across all educational functioning levels and to review and make recommendations to DOE on professional development activities to improve Adult Basic Education (ABE), General Education Development (GED), Adult High School (AHS), Vocational Preparatory Instruction (VPI), and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) instruction and review a credentialing process for adult education teachers.

The committee is working on the following tasks:

Evaluate & recommend action on Teacher Credentialing

Develop Best Practices for Distance Learning (DL) with AE, EL and PD programs.

STAR Initiative

Standards-Based Instruction Train-the-Trainer

GED Math Train the Trainer

Developing Regional Trainers