LINCS Learner Web Professional Development Web Site

Colleagues,

I want to call your attention to a free LINCS Learner Web professional development web site sponsored by Literacyworks. The site includes Learning Plans (individually-paced curricula) that in this case focus on adult literacy education professional development. Each Learning Plan is driven by a learning goal. Current goals include:

ELL/ESOL/ESL

English Language Learning University (ELL-U )

  1. ELL-U Emergent Readers: Introduction
  2. ELL-U Vocabulary Club: Introduction

Teaching Reading

  1. Teaching Reading Alphabetics
  2. Teaching Reading Comprehension
  3. Teaching Reading Fluency
  4. Teaching Reading Vocabulary
  5. Using the Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles Website

The Web site is: http://literacyworkslincs.learnerweb.org

You will need to request a screen name and password by emailing supportlw@literacyworks.org with your name, email, place of work, and job title. Your email Subject line should read "LINCS Learner Web Access". Once you receive your account screen name and password, return to the site, sign in, complete a short information request and choose a goal to begin. You will work toward accomplishing your goal at your own pace, step by step, with the help of online learning resources.

I hope you will find this professional development web site useful for teachers, tutors and others. if so, please share this information with your colleagues.

David J. Rosen

djrosen123@gmail.com