Non Classroom Delivery: Lessons Learned

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Non Classroom DeliveryLessons Learned

• Dr. Lennox L. McLendon
• National Adult Education Professional Development
  Consortium
• A Natural Resource for Adult Education State
  Directors and their Staff Members
• lmclendon_at_naepdc.org
• www.naepdc.org

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Students Most Likely to Succeed

• Prior employment experience
• Clear educational goals
• Reading at the 7th grade level
• Easy access to materials
• Easy access to an Internet-connected computer (if
  using online components)
• WES in PA
• A 7th grade reading level is minimal (Home Study,
  VA)

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Student Orientation Important (WES PA)

• Negotiating goals for learning (and Home Study,
  VA)
• Determining readiness for studying WES
• Training on how to study alone
• Familarization with the curriculum and technology
• Setting a schedule for completing learning tasks.
• Face-to-face orientation is best

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Teaching (WES PA)

• Facilitation
• Helping learners engage the materials
• Providing feedback on their work
• Email and telephone needed to support
  learners

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Workbooks (WES PA)

• Contain much of the instruction and learning
  tasks
• Few teachers found ways to review
• Packets are mailed back and forth at 3 each
  (Home Study, VA)

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Student Assessment(Home Study VA)

• Assessment Packets are mailed to learners (Home
  Study, VA)
• Easy to maintain student portfolio and track
  specific targets (WES, PA)
• Face-to-face testing difficult to achieve (WES,
  PA)

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Teacher Time

• Two half time teachers and a clerk support 200
  students (Home Study, VA)

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Learner Support

• Help with content (synchronous and asynchronous)
• Email
• Fax
• Chat room
• Bulletin boards
• Phone
• Assistance with technology
• (Litearcy CyberSpace, FL)
• Alaska, California, Delaware, Georgia,
  Massachusetts, and West Virginia provide in-home
  assistance (NIFL)

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Community of Practice

• Local administrators and teachers received
  face-to-face training
• Monthly conference calls and emails
• Worked together to solve problems
• Created a community of practice

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Measuring Seat Time

• PLATO, Skills Tutor, and GEDIllinois include
  connection time counters (Project Ideal,
  Assesment Paper)
• Students submit hours (plus - regarding
  lessons) each week with their completed work
  (Home Study, VA)

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Issues

• Recruitment and screening
• Student social support
• Assessment
• At a distance
• Rigorous enough to meet National Reporting System
  standards
• Readiness for Distance Learning