The Texas State Board of Education Policy Statement on adult education and literacy says:
“Well designed adult education and literacy instructional programs provide for active participation of learners and build on their prior knowledge, drawing on a lifetime of experiences and information into what they already learned.”
The materials and content in the classroom are driven by what the students want to know. The teacher ceases to be the sole source of knowledge and becomes a facilitator of knowledge; the learner ceases to be a passive recipient of information and becomes an active participant.
Adult Education is a whole learning experience, bringing the adult learner’s real world knowledge and needs (parenting, careers, money matters, culture and community) together with academic skills (reading, writing, math, and critical thinking).
The combining of life skills and academic skills increases student interest and motivation and makes the classroom learning more like real life. In this way, it accelerates learning and the achievement of student goals, whether their goal is to learn English or to prepare for college. Students not only increase their knowledge of the English language and attain their GED, but also become lifelong learners.
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