Staff Training: Developing ESL Teaching Skills.

A project providing training in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction to teachers and administrators of adult basic education programs in central Pennsylvania is described. Eleven workshops were conducted on the following topics: providing services to people of other cultures–cross-cultural differences; new approaches and techniques for beginning ESL instruction; and content-based ESL. The report consists of overviews of the project’s rationale, administration and staffing, design and implementation of inservice workshops, and coordination and dissemination of project information. Materials appended to the report, which comprise the bulk of the document, include: instructional materials produced and distributed for the project; a blank participant evaluation form; summaries of the participant evaluation, organized by workshop leader and topic; and outreach materials used to advertise the workshops. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education) (MSE) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.