[NLA] Info: New Focus on Basics issue

[David J. Rosen]

NLA Colleagues,

Barbara Garner asked me to post this for your information.

David J. Rosen
NLA List Moderator

New "Focus on Basics" on Web

When new students walk into your class, they may appear to be alone,
but research now underway at NCSALL indicates that, in most cases,
they are not. They arrive in a program with the help and support of a
specific person or a few people in their social networks.

Read more about these "sponsors" in the new issue of "Focus on
Basics", now available on the Web: http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu (scroll 
down a bit and click on "newest issue of Focus on Basics on counseling")

Also in the issue:

*  When does counseling learners go beyond the role of the teacher?
Read about how this Missouri program went about deciding to employ a 
social worker.

*  Who supports the helpers? What are states and programs doing to
train and support counselors?

*  Helping students handle stress is one way to counsel. This
Cambridge, MA, program offers a course that teaches mind/body
responses to stress as it teaches basic skills

*  Counselors are often responsible for recruitment and enrollment.
This workplace learning program used action research to understand
which of their recruitment techniques were and weren't working --- and
altered them as a result.

*  ESOL teachers often see themselves as advocates and counselors as
well as teachers. Two programs talked to us about their two ways of
approaching this function.



Barbara Garner
Senior Program Officer         email bgarner at worlded.org
World Education                   phone (617) 482-9485
44 Farnsworth Street             fax  (617) 482-0617
Boston, MA  02210



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