Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f02EaI902810; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 09:36:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 09:36:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010101165102.00a31db0@postoffice.worldnet.att.net.> Errors-To: rgspacone@worldnet.att.net Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Ronna G. Spacone" <rgspacone@worldnet.att.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:1316] Resources for Project Learning X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Status: O Content-Length: 2343 Lines: 25 Happy New Year... In her Dec 19 posting [4EFF:1311]* Bonnie Odiorne wrote: "I feel that project learning would definitely be the direction to take to most effectively implement the 'spirit' of EFF as well as the ultimate assessment value...[But] I am far from coming up with specific projects, let alone the necessary matrices for assessment, and would be grateful for suggestions about web sites or personal experiences such as those described in the Standards book." NIFL-4EFF Colleagues, what's your view of project learning, as the "direction to take" to implement EFF? What experiences can you share? Any specific projects? If project learning is happening where you work, how do you incorporate student goals into the project? What mechanisms have you built in so that students relate what they're doing to the various elements of the EFF Framework and to their lives? How do incorporate the components of performance of the EFF standards into the activities? What other resources - relevant to project learning - can you recommend? Here's one I like: The "Civic Participation and Community Action Sourcebook: A Resource for Adult Educators". It's online at:http://easternlincs.worlded.org/docs/vera/index1.htm This 1999 book published by the New England Literacy Resource Center and edited by Andy Nash tells 20 stories about civic participation. These include a wide range of issues from finding a class project and goal-setting to meeting with legislators and advocating for adult education funding. Preparation activities accompany each article. The source-book also contains an extensive webliography and an appendix of human rights and civics documents. While many of the articles deal with ABE/GED learners and teachers, the themes and activities can be adapted for ESL classes. A number of EFF field development partners contributed to this resource. In the text (which pre-dates the publication of the EFF Content Standards) each section opens with a list of the EFF skills and activities that are addressed in that cha pter. Thanks, Ronna Ronna G. Spacone NIFL-4EFF List Moderator * The 4EFF book group's discussion of chapter 3 from the Standards book did not happen as planned and the group has dispersed. Visit the Equipped for the Future web site at: http://novel.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/eff.html
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