Hi Andrea,
The way I would recommend to teachers (and others) to get a sense of what 
EFF "in action" might look like is to read some of the examples from the 
EFF Toolkit. You can find them on-line at 
http://eff.cls.utk.edu/toolkit/examples.htm  They are organized by Standard 
and by instructional setting with links to tools, the EFF Teaching/Learning 
Cycle (a planning tool) and various supports for teachers. From there you 
can go into the entire EFF site for the lots more, but the Toolkit examples 
show how EFF standards (and other pieces) can be used to build teaching and 
learning around the interests and goals students bring to class.

Beth




At 02:08 PM 4/7/2006 -0400, you wrote:

>George,

>

>I'll tell you, it's the language, I just can't take it.  I wish it were

>crisper and more real.   That's why I long for just a couple of pages

>and an executive summary.  I have never viewed EFF in action, or been

>able to talk clearly with a teacher, so the printed material is all

>I've got, and it's opaque.  Personally, I object to the  term "worker."

>   it implies one of a mass, and not in the management "class" either.

>To me, it's a very discouraging word.

>

>I think all the printed material is useful if one wants to know

>something about how the program was put together, that's why i said it

>must have been written to suit many needs.

>

>But I said at the beginning when I started this quest, that EFF may

>give some structure to ABE chaos, or ABE indirection or ABE lack of

>direction.  In that, pure usefulness, it might do well. That's why I

>want  the voices of those who use the materials.

>

>Andrea

>On Apr 7, 2006, at 1:29 PM, George Demetrion wrote:

>

> > That's a good observation, David.  It certainly continues, though, as

> > you say, not as a federally-sponsored NIFL project.  I suppose the past

> > tense had to do with the original incarnation.

> >

> > George

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

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> > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:58 PM

> > To: The Adult Education Content Standards Discussion List

> > Subject: [ContentStandards 112] Re: Whose content? EFF Roles

> >

> > George,

> >

> > I wonder why you describe EFF in the past tense (e.g. "it was a noble

> > experiment").  My understanding is that EFF is alive, and perhaps

> > expanding.  A number of states have formally adopted EFF as their set

> > of curriculum standards and many (perhaps all?) of these are

> > providing EFF training for teachers.  Sometime this year several

> > states will roll out the employability credential based on the EFF

> > Worker standards.  ETS has state partners and is seeking more to

> > develop EFF assessments.  Given that there is no federal support for

> > EFF that suggests to me that EFF, unlike APL, has a power in the

> > present and may have a good future.

> >

> > David J. Rosen

> > newsomeassociates.com

> >   djrosen at comcast.net

> >

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Beth Bingman
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