Posted for Karen Greer who sent this message on June 17th


From: "Greer, Karen" <Karen.Greer at victoriacollege.edu>
Date: June 17, 2008 4:29:47 PM EDT
To: <specialtopics at nifl.gov>
Subject: RE: [SpecialTopics 994] Re: ImplementingState	 
AdultEducationContentStandards

Hats off to Federico for his description of our state's standards  
process. I am one of those teachers in the trenches and welcomed the  
standards. I was shown my classroom,the students, and a large book  
closet and that was my orientation. After many years, trial and  
error, and many hours in the bookroom , I have come up with a  
workable plan. The standards are very necessary and need to be the  
basis of good planning(foreign to some teachers}. Texas followed the  
introduction of the standards with concrete lesson plan training. A  
curriculum with concrete flow is very important and the standards  
give us a way to divide level instruction guidelines. I encourage all  
in this field to use the standards and it will only benefit our  
students.

Karen Greer, teacher
Victoria College Adult Ed. Victoria, Tx