Standards for Adult Education

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Find information here about standards in adult ESL education.

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Standards for ESL/EFL Teachers of Adults (2008)

Access the Latest Standards for Adult Education Documents:

Adult ESL Language and Literacy Instruction: A Vision and Action Agenda for the 21st Century (October 2001)
This discussion, which complements From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Action Agenda for Literacy (National Literacy Summit, 2000), focuses on the characteristics and needs of adults learning English as a second language, the programs that serve them, and the policies that affect them. Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) envisions a system for the education of adult English language learners that provides high quality language and literacy services for this linguistically and culturally diverse population.
Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs
What are the components of a quality education ESL program? TESOL's Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs answers this question by defining quality components from a national perspective. Using program indicators in eight distinct areas, the standards can be used to review an existing program or as a guide in setting up a new ESOL program.

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