New York’s Statewide Professional Development
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) awarded federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Title II, Section 223 of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act funds to the LAC to be the leader of a three-year (2006-2009) professional development project.
Under this grant, the LAC is creating and will be implementing a Foundations of Adult Education Core Curriculum for statewide staff professional development. It is being designed to meet the needs of experienced and future adult education instructors, adult education program managers, and administrators from the NYSED Adult Education and Workforce Development Team (AEWD). This has been a highly-collaborative effort, involving input and expertise from around the state and country.
The Core Curriculum will be divided into an introductory 6-hour Pre-Service Institute and 6 three-hour modules, to be taken sequentially:Digital Literacy: Consuming Scientific Research and Using the Internet; Valuing Diversity and Appreciating Difference; The Art + Science of Teaching Reading to Adults, Teaching English to Adult Speakers of Other Languages; Teaching English to Adult Speakers of Other Languages; Teaching Numeracy and Quantitative Literacy to Adults; and Indicators of Program Quality.
For more information about the Core Curriculum, please contact Marilyn J. Rymniak, Project Leader, Statewide Professional Development System, at marilynr@lacnyc.org, 212-803-3322.