Mr. Williams-- do you have any information on a) the number or percent 
of students who complete your program; b) learner's reactions to 
learning this way, c) teachers' /facilitators comments on working with 
learners who learn on your program?

This sounds like quite an interesting program!!  Robin Lovrien Schwarz

-----Original Message-----
From: jw at weallcanread.com
To: focusonbasics at nifl.gov
Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 8:29 AM
Subject: [FocusOnBasics 760] Re: Maintaining Our Instructional  Role

  Dr. Alba,

This does not directly respond to your question, but I thought this 
information might be of interest to you. I am the author of a remedial 
reading/phonics program called We All Can Read. The Georgia Department 
of Corrections uses our program at 13 prisons throughout the state. The 
program is also used in several Federal prisons as well. We publish our 
program on VHS video, VD CD, and now our program is published online as 
well.  All 624 lessons from our core book are available in our online 
edition where we combine video, audio, and text; students are able to 
work at a computer and proceed independently through the entire 
program. The We All Can Read online edition is developed so that it may 
be used with no prior training by students, teachers, and tutors.
The first 28 online lessons from a total of 624 online lessons are 
available to view and hear at no cost or obligation at 
http://www.weallcanread.com. References, price information, and a great 
deal of additional information are also available on our web site. 
Please let me know if I can provide you with additional information, 
and I thank you for your time.

Jim Williams
Email address: jw at weallcanread.com
Web address: www.weallcanread.com



On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:42 PM, AL wrote:

Rationale For Question


I am involved in a correctional educators' class examining models of
teaching, classroom instruction, and instructional practices. Using
computers and other types of instructional devices in a multi-level
classroom can affect an instructor's role. Last year our Department was
considering privatization of its entire teaching staff. Some measures 
that
the administration considered were to replace teachers with videotaped
instruction and/or computer aided instruction due to budget cuts.




As a member of educated professionals we are wondering if you could 
provide
a response to the following question:


How do we maintain our instructional role in a multi-level classroom 
using
computers/instructional materials/instructional practices?


Thanks In Advance For Your Response, Albert Alba, PhD.















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