Montana Description

Billings Adult Education Center Integration of LINCS

Project Coordinators:

Norene Peterson

Kathie Davaiau

Focus/Description: The project will develop and integrate Internet-based curriculum into the Billings Center's existing curriculum. Objectives include creating cross-curricular lessons using Internet technology, publishing this curriculum on LINCS, and training other ABLE sites on its use. This in-service training project is meant to serve both rural and urban populations of Montana, tapping into the Internet and distance learning.

Target Audience: GED, ESL and Adult Education Teachers

Time Commitment: A full quarter, three months of participation in classes, via NetMeeting, face-to-face meetings and conference calls.

Intended Outcomes: Development of cross-curricular lessons using Internet technology. Preparing these lessons for publishing on LINCS, and training other ABLE sites on its use.

Oregon Description

Adult Literacy /ESL Lesson for Parents as first Teachers for Children

Project Coordinators:

Sylvan Rainwater

Carol Manzer

Mary Ann Phillips

Focus/Description: The Oregon Family Literacy project will create lessons to assist parents in their role as their child's first and best teacher using technology. Twenty-seven families will work to develop and implement lessons on literacy development, emergent literacy, parenting & child development using LINCS resources and technology. Many of the sessions will be video taped for inclusion on the final web site.

Target Audience: Adult Literacy/ESL Parents and Teachers

Time Commitment: This project will take approximately three months to complete

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Intended Outcomes: Development of Emergent Literacy, Parenting, and Child Development lesson plans and curriculum using LINCS resources and technology to be published.

Alaska Description

Integration of Web Based Lesson into English Literacy Classes

Project Coordinators:

Arva Carlson

Richard King

Debbra Brewer

Focus/Description: This project will demonstrate how teachers use the Alaska LINCS website in planning and delivering classroom lessons in English Literacy. Teachers will instruct experimental classes and use materials to develop lesson plans. Lesson plans developed from two different settings will be publicized on the web - one urban and one rural. These lesson plans will integrate the use of LINCS into the instructional process.

Target Audience: English Literacy and ESL Adult Education Teachers

Time Commitment: 200 hours per instructor for delivery of experimental and treatment classes. (Classes are 100 hours each - 10 hours/week:10 weeks. There will be 2 classes and 2 instructors).

Intended outcomes: Lesson plans that integrate the use of LINCS into the instructional process.

Washington Description

Using Technology for New Teacher Orientation

Project Coordinators:

Patti McGlaughlin

Susan Kidd

Focus/Description: This project focuses on enhancing the new Teacher Orientation through a Technology workshop for ABLE Network teachers in Olympia, WA. In addition to creating a website, a CD will be produced using resources found on LINCS and the Internet. Through the use of online resources, long distance professional development classes will provide a platform for new teachers to become acquainted with the field of adult education in Washington State.

Target Audience: New Adult Education Instructors

Time Commitment: Fifteen hours a week for approximately 8 months, this includes a needs assessment, research, development and implementation.

Intended Outcomes: A CD and online website will be created for the New Teacher Orientation Program, which will also assist new program directors and tutors who will be working within the Adult Education system. This content can be customized for various State System Guidelines and Competencies.

Wyoming Description

Project Coordinator:

Stacy Lynch-Newberg

Focus/Description: A strategy for Program Improvement as it pertains to successfully transitioning ABE Math students to Community College Regular Math classes.

Target Audience: Wyoming ABE Students and Instructors

Time Commitment: 3 months

Intended Outcomes:The purpose of this project is to publish the useable portions of Wyoming’s finding in the NW Quality Initiative research on the Wyoming NW LINCS web site to enable Wyoming to go to scale with the Initiative.  

A second part of the project will concentrate on completing lesson plans Wyoming practitioners have already submitted to the pilot coordinator, so that they may be put on the web.  Also, the pilot coordinator will continue soliciting other lessons for use on the web from Wyoming practitioners.