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This web-based training is designed to arm you as a provider of Adult English Literacy Instruction (also known as English for Speakers of Other Languages or ESOL) with strategies, information and resources that will help you to help your English language learners. Topics you can use to help your learners include:
- Assessment, recruitment and retention of Adult English Language Learners (ELLs).
- Student Performance Levels and characteristics of each.
- Standardized Syllabi and Progress Reports for classroom instruction in Florida.
- Methods, techniques and strategies for teaching Adults including Strategies
That Work - Learner-centered approaches and communicative
strategies for teaching ESOL to adults.
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To complete this web-based training, you will need to:
- Review the section on Inservice Points and the requirements necessary to obtain your inservice points.
- Login - This is required if you are planning to receive inservice points. If you do not wish to receive inservice points, or if you are a visitor from another state, please login as a guest.
- Complete the pretest.
- Work through each component of Teaching Adult ESOL - An Online Course, completing the bulletin board activities where required.
- Read the sections entitled, Instructional Strategies that Work, which introduce effective ESOL methods and approaches in the context of teaching health literacy topics. Some of these require follow-up bulletin board activities.
- Complete the post test and evaluation. Your answers
will be sent to the Department of Education and your certificate
of completion will be forwarded to you from there. The
evaluation of Teaching Adult ESOL is a required part of
the inservice documentation.
Now that you understand the web-based training process, there are three things
that you need to do before you begin. First, if you wish
to earn inservice points, login by your region. If you do
not wish to earn inservice points, but just wish to visit
the site and obtain useful information about teaching Adult
ESOL to ELLs, then please login as a guest.
 Next, local school districts or community colleges must do the actual awarding of the inservice points. As an adult ESOL educator, you must include this web-based training program as part of an approved inservice component in your district's or community college's Master Inservice Plan. Each district or college may have slightly different procedures for awarding inservice points. You will need to check with the appropriate staff person at your institution to complete the required procedures. The link below should provide you with the information you need.
For information on receiving inservice points for this training component, click here: Inservice Points.
Finally, don't forget to have a manila folder handy to
save items that you print for later use in the classroom.
Label the folder Teaching Adult ESOL — An Online Course.
 The next step is to take the PreTest!
Click the "PreTest" link below to proceed.
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