The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center

Publications

• Guide to Workplace Literacy: Knowledge Under Construction
  This guid offers practical “how-to” suggestions for developing a workplace literacy program. Topics include: “Developing a Workplace Literacy Program,” “Readiness Checklist,” Identifying Resources, Training, Marketing, Contracts, and Workplace and Business Vocabulary.
• Focus On Basics - Workplace Education (November 2004)
  Published by NCSALL in 2004, these Focus on Basics on Workplace Education articles include: “Balancing the Agendas of Managers, Students, and Teachers in ESOL,” “How States Approach Workplace Education,” “Much More than ABE,” and “Workplace Literacy Education.”
• The Adult Education Teacher’s Role in Career Planning
  This discussion of the career development needs of adults also describes the appropriate role for the teacher in providing career planning assistance and suggests activities that can be used to support adult career planning in the classroom.
• Jobs for the Future - Newswire
  Jobs for the Future publishes an electronic newsletter for policymakers, practitioners, the media, and public about JFF and its efforts to create successful transitions for youth and build economic opportunity for adults.
• Building Basics
  Building Basics is a multi-level curriculum for teaching students that have expressed a need to learn English within the context of the construction trades. It has been organized into four modules which should be downloaded separately due to their large size: General Construction, Curb Appeal (Landscaping), Painting, and Plumbing. Each module is further divided into five units/lessons. These lessons provide a facilitator guide with step-by-step instructions for implementation, facilitator materials, and learner handouts. The facilitator materials contain copies of all the worksheets, transparencies, drawings, cartoons, handouts, etc., that the teacher will need. Hundreds of original drawings that have been created expressly for this curriculum provide visual support to each lesson.
• GED Career Bridge to Health Care Curriculum
  The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center was contracted by the Virginia Department of Education, Office of Adult Education & Literacy, to produce this teacher-friendly, career-focused GED instruction guide based on WIN's GED Learning in the Workplace Curriculum Guide for the Health Care Industry and to tailor it specifically for the Fast Track GED Learner. The guide includes GED as Project Inquiry Activities adapted to health care contexts, current health care vocabulary lists, a variety of career briefs in the health care field, health care-related lesson plans and reading material, guidelines for implementation, and a complete student handbook.
• GED Career Bridge to Hospitality Curriculum
  The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center was contracted by the Virginia Department of Education, Office of Adult Education & Literacy, to produce this teacher-friendly, career-focused GED instruction guide based on WIN's GED Learning in the Workplace Curriculum Guide for Hospitality. The guide includes GED as Project Inquiry Activities adapted to hospitality contexts, current hospitality industry vocabulary lists, a variety of career briefs in the hospitality field, hospitality-related reading material and lesson plans, guidelines for implementation, and a complete student handbook.