Learning Links

online Resources for Instructors

Professional development opportunities, student retention, teaching ideas and other resources online.

Class Offered

Best Practices for Integrating Basic Skills
Teacher Development Course
Earn 5 credits or PIUs to improve your teaching technique. This is a great opportunity to identify teaching issues, find solutions and put them into practice. Contact Ellen Harley at ellen.harley@wwcc.edu to sign up for the class. This is not an online course.

VTAEL

The College's Vocational-Technical Adult Education Liaison Committee VTAEL is a coalition of Workforce Education and Transitional Studies faculty. The group meets quarterly to plan the effective integration of basic skills and workforce education toward our goal of improving retention and on-time completion of co-enrolled ESL/ABE Vocational students.

LAB 210
Send or bring your students or bring your class to lab 210 to learn basic computer skills, use English as a Second Language programs, use grammar programs, test taking practice, improve reading and comprehension, use the internet as a study tool and study for a GED. Contact Jan at extent ion 4322 to discuss your students' needs or schedule a time for your class in the lab.

Student preparation and teaching resources on the Web
GED Learning on the Web
Study English Online

Student Motivation and Retention
Virtual Salt - student motivation ideas
ERIC Student Motivation to Learn

Study Skills- online handouts and ideas
Study Skills -Site for students to learn how to study effectively

Articles and research

Teaching and curriculum development for the adult learner (install)
Collaborating with Students to Build Curriculum that Incorporates Real-Life Materials
The Impact of Use of Authentic Materials and Activities Values and Beliefs:
The World View Behind Curriculum
One Classroom, Two Languages: Adult Bilingual Curriculum Development
Same Curriculum, New Mode of Delivery
Adapting ABE Professional Development to the Internet
Lessons Learned
Changing a State's Approach to Curriculum:
Creating Curricula for Challenging Circumstances
Not by Curriculum Alone

Disclaimer -Walla Walla Community College provides the above web sites as additional study guides only. Walla Walla Community College makes no representations or warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to the content of any of these sites.

If you would like to have interactive sites added in your area of study or discipline, please contact jan.tegtmeier@wwcc.edu