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Free Training Resource on How to Improve the Literacy & Essential Skills of Adults with Developmental Disabilities

The Answers May Vary (AMV) Facilitator’s Manual is a training resource for agency administrators, supervisors and literacy coordinators on how to work with adults with developmental disabilities to improve their literacy and essential skills. The Manual provides strategies and concrete ideas based on the Answers May Vary Guidebook, Answers May Vary Tutorial Videos and the … Continue reading →

New Resource Available: Sharing the Journey with Adult Indigenous Learners – A Teaching Reading Strategies Guide

As a resource to accompany the Alberta Reading Benchmarks (ARB) tool, Sharing the Journey with Adult Indigenous Learners – A Teaching Reading Strategies Guide by Patricia Pryce was developed for practitioners  working with Aboriginal adult learners. The guide evolved through collaboration with experienced practitioners around Alberta who have a respectful awareness of Aboriginal teaching and learning principles. The guide … Continue reading →

Creating Learning Partners

Literacy Alberta has an extensive resource tool titled “Creating Learning Partners”, available for free, on their website designed to act as a comprehensive facilitator’s guide to training effective adult literacy tutors. It includes sections on: 1. Orientation 2. Adults as Learners – Handouts 3. Learning Styles – Handouts 4. Planning for Learning – Handouts 5. About Literacy – Handouts 6. Reading – Handouts 7. Writing – Handouts 8. … Continue reading →

Get Digital

Starting this September, AlphaPlus is launching not one but three series of free monthly webinars, each with a specific audience and content in mind. Are you struggling to integrate technology into program design and delivery? Need help with successfully using digital technologies in your practice? Or do you maybe just want to get more comfortable … Continue reading →