Adult Learners' Training and Assistance Program

Access Lesson Plans and other Instructional Strategies through the Internet:

AskERIC Lesson Plans A collection of more than 1.00 lesson plans submitted by teachers all over the US. Many are appropriate for adult learners.

Dave's ESL Cafe Includes Hint-of-the-Day, Idea Cookbook, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, Quotes, Quizzes, and much more.

Education Calendar & WWW Sites Several monthly themes are presented. Four different aspects of each theme are introduced and linked to further readings.

Email Projects Home Page A variety of lesson plans designed for adult learners.

Free Translation Will translate text or a whole website from one language to another.

Gallery of ESOL Lesson Plans 8 lessons developed by participants in a 1999-2000 ESOL workshop at the Literacy Assistance Center in New York City.

Glossary of Instructional Strategies

Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy A collection of lesson plans in a variety of content areas.

Lessons Developed by Susan Boone Six web-based lessons

Math in Daily Life Practical math application in real world contexts

Pop Clock Students gather population trend data and make predictions about future populations.

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab A resource for more advanced writers.

Puzzlemaker Create puzzles, mazes, word searches, math squares, cryptograms, and letter tiles.

Quia Learning Create quizzes, games and challenge boards for your students with these easy-to-use templates.

The Study Place The Study Place is a Web-based authoring tool that offers adult educators a simple way to create and deliver online learning activities to their adult learners. The learners can access The Study Place Web site either as part of a class or as independent self-directed learners.

Untangling the Web A Power Point Presentation.

Web-based Lesson Plan Gallery From the the Literacy Assistance Center's World Wide Web Institute for ABE/ESOL Teachers and Staff Developers.

Web-based Lesson Plans, Compiled by David Rosen, this collection of six lesson plans was written by adult education teachers. Each lesson plan uses a different web site. ESOL/ABE/ASE

ALTA is funded through the Pennsylvania Department of Education,
Bureau of Adult Literacy and Basic Education, and
the Workforce Investment Act