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Adult Education

What is PBS LiteracyLink?

PBS LiteracyLink is a public broadcasting initiative that links underserved and hard-to-reach adults and their teachers to exciting new learning tools. LiteracyLink's mission is to provide quality adult basic education that is exciting, relevant, accessible and flexible. LiteracyLink also provides just-in-time, convenient and cost-effective staff development for adult literacy educators. LiteracyLink accomplishes these goals by using public television and the Internet to reach learners and teachers whenever they are.

TV 411
TV411 teaches life skills in a manageable, lively format. The series focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects include reading comprehension, research techniques, writing to others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions, test-taking, and more.

GED Connection
GED Connection is a dynamic multimedia instructional package that prepares learners for the new GED exam and for the world beyond. It creatively combines video, workbooks and the Internet. The series uses and engaging documentary-style approach to instruction, with many real-life examples of how people use the skills and knowledge tested on the GED at work and in their homes and communities. GED Connection combines interviews with experts, learners, poets and scientists with documentary footage and informational graphics. The series is informative and exciting, even for curious, non-GED viewers.

Workplace Essential Skills

Workplace Essential Skills teaches not just the skills but also the attitudes necessary to succeed at work. Reading, writing, math, communication, and problem solving are presented in workplace contexts. Learners see how to prepare résumés and applications and how to prepare themselves for interviews and for the workplace. In-depth documentary and scripted footage shows what employers look for in new hires and how to fit in and thrive in a new job.

Adult Literacy Educator: Other Services available for you from PBS LiteracyLink

• ESL/CivicsLink

A web-based staff development package designed specifically for adult education ESL teachers and programs. This project will launch in 2002.

• Project Connect

Supplemental Web-based instruction for intermediate adult ESL learners. This project will launch in 2003.

LiteracyLink Resources

September, October, November
ITV Schedule

TV411

GED Connection

Workplace Essentials Skills

GED: A Second Chance

Local GED Resources

GED Resource Links

EdVideo Online
Digital media resources
on demand via the Internet