Hello, All,

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think anyone in the US is tracking who is
doing work-related basic skills education on a national basis -- whether
in workplaces or non-workplace settings.  This would be a massive
undertaking, as whatever programs are out there are not generally funded
by a central funder and thus have no particular reason to report what
they are doing to a central place. 

However, a number of states do fund workplace basic skills programs --
which might fall under the heading of "concurrent vocational and
language training."  Those states likely have databases of their
respective programs.  To find out which states do or don't keep such
databases, I'd suggest contacting the National Adult Education
Professional Development Consortium (www.naepdc.org).

In years past, reports from projects which participated in the National
Workplace Literacy Program (funded by the US Dept. of Ed.) were stored
at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education at
Ohio State University.  Both of those programs were defunded, although
there still might be an archive containing those NWLP reports. 


Paul Jurmo, Ed.D.
Dean, Economic Development and Continuing Education
Union County College
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-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:48 PM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 775] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language Training

Hi Laurie, Amber and others,

This is an interest of mine as well.  There is a discussion of a
concurrent program at the College of Lake County in Illinois in a report
that I wrote with Forrest Chisman.  It combines vocational training in a
number of areas with VESL courses.  The program is provided at the
community college, however, not at the workplace.  The report, Passing
the Torch, can be downloaded from the website at www.caalusa.org


I am especially interested in learning more about programs like
these--either at educational institutions or at the workplace--for
health-related careers.

Jodi Crandall



> Hi Laurie -

>

> This area of VESL is an interest of mine as well.  In answer to your 

> original question, I am relatively sure that there is *not* a 

> centralized database of these types of programs (based on my own

searches).

>

> I teach and do curriculum development in a program that involves a 

> community college (like IBEST does) and the National Retail

Federation.

> We do a course that blends customer service training with ESL training



> - the goal of which is employment in retail sales.

>

> The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades has also 

> designed an interesting program that combines their hard skill 

> apprenticeship curriculum with basic English skills.  However, that 

> program has not yet been implemented in IUPAT local unions.

>

> I think most VESL programs are actually not like these - they're 

> vocationally-oriented English classes but without a real technical 

> skill component and the corresponding job placement/advancement goals.

>

> Amber Gallup

> Washington, DC

>

> Laurie Ketzenberg <lketzenberg at resolutionpictures.com> wrote:Re:

> [Workplace 769] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language Training

Yes,

> VESL brings up a gazillion hits.  And there are a gazillion 

> definitions of VESL.

>

>  My interest is in hard skill training for NNS (health care, culinary 

> arts, building trades), where the goal is technical skill acquisition 

> and upward ladder job placement and retention.  This would likely 

> require interagency and interdisciplinary partnerships between ESL and



> Vocational agencies and instructors.

>

>  IBEST in WA is one model I'm learning about ...

>

>

>  On 6/19/07 6:06 PM, "Ginnie Gorin" <ggorin at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>  I would be very much interested in this as well.  Googling "VESL" 

> brings up some.

>  GG

>

>  On 6/19/07, Laurie Ketzenberg < laurie at medivetproducts.com 

> <mailto:laurie at medivetproducts.com> > wrote:

>  Dear Colleagues,

>

>  Is there a centralized database of programs that offer concurrent 

> vocational  and language skills training for non-native speakers of 

> English?

>

>  Thanks!

>  Laurie

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