Program Overview

Adult Education and Literacy Certification Career

The Adult Education and Literacy Certification Career is a program that issues a Career Continuous AEL classification to applicants upon completion and verification of the following requirements:

Requirements

• Four years of state-approved teaching experience
  • Participation in a two-year mentoring program
  • Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (currently called ITW)
• 60 hours* of professional development (currently ETW)
• Successful participation in an annual performance-based teacher evaluation
  • *Suggested courses include the following:
    • ADULT ED 4411, Teaching Basic Reading to the Adult Learner
    • ADULT ED 6230, Adult Learning & Development
    • ADULT ED 6404, Seminar in Adult Education Research-Adult Literacy
    • ADULT ED 6410, The Adult Learner
    • ADULT ED 6411, History of Adult Education
    • ADULT ED 6412, Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education
    • ADULT ED 6413, Improvement of Instruction in Adult Education
    • ADULT ED 6414, Curriculum Theory and Development in Adult Education
    • ADULT ED 6417, Multicultural Issues in Adult Education
    • ADULT ED 6418, Assessment in the Adult Classroom

Learning Outcomes

The Adult & HE student should demonstrate and/or have an understanding of:

• Integrating teaching, learning, and technology
• Awareness of education and educational research as a lifelong process
• The unique role of shared governance in postsecondary institutions
• The legal, social, and political contexts as it relates to organization and postsecondary institutions
• Student learning and development, including learning communities and curricular issues
• Exploring issues related to faculty
• Critical inquiry, including research courses and internships
• Historical periods and historical adult and higher education educators
• Characteristic issues associated with different historical periods
• Role of adult education during various historical periods
• Knowledge of the vast array of methods, techniques, devices, and research findings available for helping adults learn
• Application of the various techniques for helping adult learners in their adult education programs
• Philosophical perspectives informing the field of adult education or higher education