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Writings: U.S., 2002-2010

Shown below are documents from 2002 to 2010. Topics include work-related basic education for incumbent workers or job seekers, education for formerly-incarcerated individuals, appropriate technologies for basic skills learners, adult learner leadership, and college student involvement in adult literacy efforts.

How to Help Adult Learners Develop Basic Skills and ...

  • “How to Help Adult Learners Develop Basic Skills and Other Career Tools” is a PowerPoint presentation at Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey's annual conference in April 2010.  Summarizes basic skills and other “career tools” (e.g., occupational knowledge, career plan, etc.) that adults need, along with examples of contextualized basic skills activities that can be integrated into basic skills and work-readiness programs.  

LV-NJ conf 4-24-10 PPT (pdf)Download

Appropriate Technologies for Workforce Learning ...

  • “Appropriate Technologies for Workforce Learning: A New Approach to Using Educational Technologies for Adult Learning and Workforce Development" (with Sandra Panesso): Presented at “Future of Adult Education in the Digital World” Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, November 2009:

Approp Techs Oct 2009 (pdf)Download

Eldercare Careers Project at Union County College (NJ)

  • "Eldercare Careers Project at Union County College”: Final report about year-long project which piloted a curriculum to help mid-to-advanced-level English language learners prepare for eldercare training and careers.  Curriculum integrated EFF skills, occupational knowledge and computer skills.  December 2009.

Eldercare Final Report UCC 12-6-09 (pdf)Download

Career Curricula for Transportation/Logistics/Distribution

  • "Career Pathway Curricula for the Transportation/Logistics/Distribution Industry":  With funding from the U.S. Department of Labor’s North Jersey WIRED’s economic development initiative, Union County (NJ) College’s Industry-Business Institute developed a career pathway model to help job seekers learn about and move into careers in the transportation/logistics/distribution industry.  The following sample curricula (written with Farrukh Syed) integrate TLD occupational knowledge with Equipped for the Future Skills and basic computer skills.  (See “Appropriate Technologies” article above for more about this model.)

TLD Career Planning Instructor Hbk 10-4-09 (pdf)Download
TLD Ready 10-4-09 (pdf)Download
Intro to TLD Careers 10-2-09.ppt (pdf)Download

RISE: Union County’s Re-Entry Initiative

  • This August 2009 PowerPoint (prepared by Paul Jurmo with Cathy Waters and Gisela Cruz) summarizes the goals, activities, and results of a county-level prisoner re-entry initiative in New Jersey: 

RISE PPT 8-25-09 (pdf)Download

Book review of "Building Better ABE"

  • Review of Building Better ABE, a 2007 collection of research papers (edited by Alisa Belzer) from a national conference at Rutgers University.  Review published in the Summer 2008 edition of the Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal.

ABEL Journal Summer 2008 (pdf)Download

Building a Workforce Learning System for Union County (NJ)

  •  A White Paper for the Union County (NJ) Workforce Investment Board: 2008.

WIB White Paper 3-08 (pdf)Download

Professional Development for Adult Educators in NJ

  • “Building a Professional Development System for Adult Educators in New Jersey”: Prepared for the NJ State Employment and Training Commission’s adult education committee, February 2007.  

PD system for NJ 2-07 (pdf)Download

Leadership Handbook for Adult Learners

 Prepared for Grassroots Literacy Coalition Leadership Institute, New York City, April 9, 2005.  

Learner Leader H'bk 4-05 (pdf)Download

Workplace Literacy Ed.: Definitions, Purposes, Approaches

  • “Workplace Literacy Education: Definitions, Purposes, and Approaches” : Article in Focus on Basics, National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, November 2004

Wkplace Ed Definitions (Focus on Basics) Jurmo Nov 2004 (docx)Download

Helping Job-Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills

  • "Helping Job-Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills: A Guide for Workforce Development Professionals": Written with Jennifer Cleary for the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Provides strategies that workforce center staff can use to better serve individuals .who have various kinds of basic skills-related challenges and/or who lack a high school equivalency credential.   

Job Seekers (pdf)Download

Don’t Forget the Ones Left Behind: How Career Centers Can...

  • “Don’t Forget the Ones Left Behind: How Career Centers Can Better Serve Job-Seekers Lacking in Basic Skills and High School Credentials”: Prepared for the U.S. Department of Education for Presentation at the Workplace Learning Conference, Chicago, December 2003.

Left Behind 2003 (pdf)Download

Out of the Ivory Tower: College Students Get Involved ...

  • “Out of the Ivory Tower: College Students Get Involved in Adult Literacy” in Literacy Update, New York City Literacy Assistance Center, September 2003:

Ivory Tower Sept 2003 (pdf)Download

Work-Related Basic Education in the U.S.: A Mixed Bag

  • “Work-Related Basic Education in the United States:  A Mixed Bag”: An article in the Ontario Literacy Coalition Bulletin on Workplace Literacy: National and International Perspectives on Research and Practice, September 2003, pages 22-26

Ontario 9-03 (pdf)Download

English at Work: Basic Work-Related Communications Skills ..

  • English at Work: Basic Work-Related Communications Skills for English Language Learners (with Marsha Love): A 37-page ESOL-for-basic-workplace-communications curriculum for NY City Consortium for Worker Education instructors to use with English language learners who lost their jobs after the 9/11 attacks, March 2003

English at Work March 2003 (pdf)Download

Job Seeker’s Handbook

  • Job Seeker’s Handbook:  Prepared for English language learners at the NY City Consortium for Worker Education who lost jobs after the 9/11 attacks, December 2002: 

Job Seeker Hbk CWE 12-02 (pdf)Download

Learn & Work: Basic Skills for Job Seekers

  • Learn & Work: Basic Skills for Job Seekers: A 92-page curriculum for NY City Consortium for Worker Education instructors to use with English language learners who lost their jobs after the 9/11 attacks, November 2002.  

Learn & Work 11-02 (pdf)Download

The New (and Ongoing) Job Crisis for Adult Learners . . .

  • “The New (and Ongoing) Job Crisis for Adult Learners:  How Adult Educators Can Respond” appeared in Literacy Harvest, New York City Literacy Assistance Center, Fall 2002. It discusses how adult education programs in the city were trying to help adult learners respond to the massive job losses caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Job Crisis Fall02 (pdf)Download

Wanted: Leadership for Adult Literacy

  •  An article in Making the Case: Adult Education and Literacy: Key to America’s Future: Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy, April 2002

Leadership Wanted April 2002 (pdf)Download

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