Project Success
is a dynamic six-level, four-skills multimedia
course for adults and young adults. It offers a comprehensive
and integrated program for false-beginner to low-advanced
learners, with a classroom and online curriculum correlated to
national and state standards.
KEY FEATURES
In developing this course we focused on our students’ future
aspirations, and on their current realities. Through inspiring
stories of adults working and mastering life’s challenges, we
illustrate the skills and competencies adult English language
learners need to participate fully and progress in their roles at
home, work, school, and in the community. To create versatile
and dynamic learning tools, we integrate digital features such
as video, audio, and an online curriculum into one unified and
comprehensive course. The result is
Project Success
: the first
blended digital course designed for adult-education English
language learners.
MULTIMEDIA: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
THE CLASSROOM
All
Project Success
materials are technologically integrated
for seamless independent and classroom learning. The user-
friendly digital interface will appeal to students who are already
technologically adept, while providing full support for students
who have less computer experience.
In class,
the teacher uses the
ActiveTeach
DVD-ROM to project
the lessons on the board. Video, audio, flashcards, conversation
frameworks, checklists, comprehension questions, and other
learning material are all available at the click of a button.
Students use their print
Student Book
as they participate in
class activities, take notes, and interact in group work.
Outside of class
, students access their
Project Success
eText
to review the videos, audio, and eFlashcards from class. They
use their
MyEnglishLab
access code to get further practice
online with new listenings and readings, additional practice
activities, and video-based exercises.
A VARIETY OF WORKFORCE AND
LIFE SKILLS
Each level of
Project Success
presents a different cast of
characters at a different workplace. In each book, students
learn instrumental language, employment, and educational
skills as they watch the characters interact with co-workers,
customers, family, and friends. As students move through the
series, level by level, they learn about six important sectors in
today’s economy: food service, hospitality, healthcare, higher
education, business, and retail.
The language and skills involved in daily life range from following
directions, to phone conversations, to helping customers, to
asking permission to leave early. By representing a day in the
life of a character,
Project Success
can introduce a diverse
sampling of the content, language, and competencies involved
in daily life and work. This approach allows students to learn
diverse competencies and then practice them, in different
settings and contexts, at different points in the curriculum.
VIDEO VIGNETTES
Each unit is organized around a series of short videos that
follow one main character through his or her workday. In
Listening and Speaking lessons, students watch the video
together, see the character model a key competency in a
realistic setting, and then practice the competency in pairs
and groups. Discussion questions and group activities
encourage students to identify and interpret the rich cultural
content embedded in the video. The unit’s grammar points
are presented in the context of natural language in the video
and then highlighted for more study and practice in a separate
grammar lesson.
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
In the
What do you think?
activity at the end of nearly every
lesson, students analyze, evaluate, infer, or relate content in
the lesson to other contexts and situations.
A ROBUST ASSESSMENT STRAND
The series includes a rich assessment package that consists
of unit review tests, midterms, and a CASAS-like final test. The
tests assess students on CASAS objectives which are integrated
into practical skills and listening strands.
The tests are available online or in a printable version on the
ActiveTeach.
THE COMPONENTS:
ActiveTeach
This is a powerful digital platform for teachers. It blends a
digital form of the Student Book with interactive whiteboard
(IWB) software and printable support materials.
MyEnglishLab
This is a dynamic, easy-to-use online learning and assessment
program that is integral to the
Project Success
curriculum. Original
interactive activities extend student practice of vocabulary,
listening, speaking, pronunciation, grammar, reading, writing,
and practical skills from the classroom learning component.
eText
The eText is a digital version of the Student Book with all the
audio and video integrated, and with a complete set of the
pop-up eFlashcards.
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