[AAACE-NLA] National Irish TV Series follows adults learning to read over an eight weekend course

[David Rosen]

Colleagues,

The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) in Ireland, having for  
several years offered a very successful prime-time TV adult literacy  
course, now boldly leads with an innovative TV series that uses  
commercial television for adult literacy public awareness, and to  
market literacy instruction to potential adult students.

Over eight weekends this fall a group of 10 adult learners will  
participate in an intensive basic skills course tailored specifically  
for them. From Friday to Sunday the students will stay in a  
comfortable location where they will be taught by a team of expert  
basic skills teachers. The TV series will follow the students over  
the eight weekends, and each week the students will work towards  
their own goal that they set at the start of the course. A major aim  
of the series is to show the experience of learning to read, or  
improve other basic skills, as an adult so that more adults might  
enroll in adult basic skills classes. The series should also help the  
general public better understand the opportunities and challenges of  
neighbors who learn basic skills as adults.

An article about the TV show appears in the Kilkenny (Ireland)  
Advertiser.

http://www.kilkennyadvertiser.ie/index.php?aid=6451


David J. Rosen
DJRosen at theworld.com