Learner Goal Setting - Article by Ronna Magy that includes research-based strategies and suggestions to answer “What can instructors do to help students set goals, monitor progress and reach goals?”
Ohio Aspire Individual Career and Academic Plan – an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) template that captures career-focused goals, ESOL standards-focused (academic) skills and other implications for instruction. Use this tool for goal setting and tracking student performance in the portfolio.
Opportunities for New Americans - Find Ohio resources for job search, pursuing education, learning English and growing businesses. Additional Information links to the International Engagement site and Vibrant Ohio with local welcome initiatives that offer support.
Transitions - Resources for Aspire teachers to help them prepare students for successful transition to postsecondary education and training and the workplace.
Digital Learning - Encompasses the application of a wide spectrum of practices, including blended and virtual learning, where learning is accompanied by technology or instruction that uses technology effectively.
Special Needs – Resources on accommodations, adaptations and assistive technology.
Specific Populations
Internationally Trained Professionals - State and national career pathways resources to assist skilled immigrants and refugees interested in transferring skills, getting licensed or having credentials evaluated in the US.
Low Literacy ESOL - Strategies, tools and resources for teachers and programs serving low level ESOL students who may be preliterate, non-literate, semiliterate, or literate in a non-Roman alphabet language.
Advanced ESOL - Support for teachers and programs for serving NRS Level 6/Advanced ESL students and ELLs beyond Level 6 who want to transition to college and career.
ESOL Standards Support Materials - Log into the PDN Moodle to access resources that support implementation of the Ohio Aspire ESOL standards and benchmarks. Resources include unpacking the standards, increasing the rigor, academic language, scaffolding, critical thinking, academic discourse and lesson planning.
Portfolio - Information to consider when putting together the Aspire Student Portfolio.
Retention - Contains a tool for evaluating program practices as well as strategies and resources to assist Aspire programs and staff implementing successful retention practices.