Forums at readiowa — communicate & share with other teachers and tutors.

AdultEdTeachers.org — Check it out, created and maintained by California’s Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN), supported with AEFLA funds. The Web site helps adult educators using technology to enhance and improve instruction. Free features include: online Lesson Plan Builder linked to databases of standards, instructional materials, and assessments; teachers' Q & A for advice from adult education experts; Internet in the classroom monthly activities; and electronic resources like classroom activities, sites to use with students, lesson plans, and media clips.

Computer-Aided and Web-Based Instruction Survey - Iowa Adult Basic Education Teachers, Prepared by Christine Case - Western Iowa Tech Community College

Verizon Literacy Campus - VLC offers a range of online courses and other resources to support volunteers and program staff working to create a more literate nation. VLU is brought to you by two of America's premier literacy organizations, the National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide, and is funded by Verizon Communications.

Literacy Tips for Children from the Ohio Literacy Resource Center. Literacy tips in a format that can be copied and used in family literacy programs. (In pdf format)

Teaching Tips Index from the Honolulu Community College Faculty Development Guidebook. How People Learn includes "30 Things About Teaching Adults" and "Principles of Adult Learning".

National College Transition Network

Dyslexia Resources on the Internet

GED Resources

Health Literacy

Lesson Plans, Curricula and Programs, written by your peers in Iowa

Teaching Tools & Techniques, from your peers in Iowa

Workforce and Workplace Education

Iowa Association of Lifelong Learning

Quia: Where Learning Takes You, contains Java activities for students in a variety of areas.

LiteracyLink, a learning service made available to us by PBS and Iowa Public Television

Your Guide to Learning Materials, our catalog

1998 PLA/ALLS Top Titles for Adult Readers

Adult Education Webliography and Listservs

Iowa State Staff Development Practitioner Research Reports 1997-1998

TOPSPro® Tips

ESL Sites for Teachers and Tutors

Adult Basic Skills Certification Manual

The manual is available as a PDF file as well as a PowerPoint presentation on Iowa’s Basic Skills Certification Program.

Instructional Materials on the WWW

Contacting Literacy and ABE Publishers

Illuminations, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Includes lesson plans, interactive online math investigations and links to recommended web sites. 

LINCS-reviewed Resources for Teachers/Tutors