Southern Illinois
Professional Development Center
Lending Library

Journal articles

New acquisitions

New videos

The SIPDC has a collection of over 5,000 resources in its lending library. These resources can be divided into two categories: student and classroom materials that include workbooks, texts, videos and computer programs; and personal/professional growth materials that include journals, periodicals, books, curricula and videos.

Adult education colleagues are invited to visit us at SIUE, Alumni Hall, Room 0138 any weekday between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. or use the SIPDC LIBRARY MATERIAL RESOURCE GUIDE (available at each adult education program site) to select items for use with their classes or for their personal professional growth and call/email us to check out materials. The only cost to local programs is return postage.

Monthly, each adult education program receives 3 copies of selected journal articles. Reviewed by SIPDC staff, these articles cover topics related to teaching/learning, communication skills - reading/writing/speaking, family/intergenerational literacy, GED/assessment, general, multicultural, professional development, special needs/special populations, work related and technology. Copies of the articles are circulated among the staff by the program administrator, program representative and literacy coordinator. To view the monthly listing, click " journal articles" above. To view a listing of new acquisitions along with a brief description, click "new acquisitions" above.

Contact Christina, SIPDC Secretary or phone: 618-6950-2254, to place your order for materials or request a listing of resources available on a particular topic.
A Time for Every Purpose in Adult Education

To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

  • a time to lecture, and a time to discuss;
  • a time for instruction, and a time for self direction;
  • a time to challenge, and a time to accept;
  • a time to control, and a time to let go;
  • a time for expository writing, and a time for artistic expression;
  • a time to be serious, and a time to laugh;
  • a time for statistics, and a time for narrative;
  • a time to work alone, and a time to collaborate;
  • a time to test, and a time to support;
  • a time to reflect, and a time to act;
  • a time for simplicity, and a time for advanced technology;
  • a time to process, and a time for content;
  • a time to speak, and a time to listen;
  • a time to feel, and a time to think.
    by Jonathan Bennker, Evanston. Based on Eccl 3:1-8.

    • Journal articles available FREE upon request.

    April, 1999

    March, 1999

    New acquisitions you can request on a free loan basis.

  • Accommodation: Accommodating Adults with Disabilities in Adult Education Programs - University of Kansas, Institute for Adult studies, 1998. This notebook provides information about legal definitions of disability and accommodation and related concepts, explanations of program and learner rights and responsibilities as well as suggested practices, and resources. Included is a step-by-step process for confirming a disability, selecting and monitoring use of an accommodation. Also instructor tips, sample forms and overhead masters, interview protocols and handouts for adult learners and matrices of possible accommodations.
  • Building Learning Power for Children and Adults Who Have Special Learning Needs: A Collection of Instructional Strategies and Adjustments - Payne, Nancie, 1994. This notebook includes definitions along with learning disabilities instructional strategies and adjustments for about 15 difficulties. A special section on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder instruction strategies and adjustments is also included. This notebook was designed to use with the Learning Needs Inventory by Nancie Payne and Neil Sturomski.
  • Cooperative Learning - Kagan, Spencer, Kagan Cooperative Learning. Cooperative Learning will prepare your students for our rapidly changing world. It emphasises producing students capable of higher-level thinking skills, communication skills and social skills. This book covers theory, methods, lesson design and beyond the classroom. Team building for synergistic learning in your classroom. Try it!
  • Networking Made Easy - Marler, Patti and Mattia, Jan Bailey, 1998. This book shows you how to network like a pro, overcome your anxieties and make the contacts that build careers
  • Real People Working in: COMMUNICATIONS - Goldberg, 1997. This book is part of a series designed to use with Occupational Outlook Hanbook. Other books in the series include:Health Care, Sales and Marketing, Service Businesses. Each book provides an overview of the field and a discussion of the training, education requirements, salary expectations, related fields and sources to pursue for further information. They have first hand accounts that describe what each job truly entails, what the duties are and what the lifestyle is like and what the upsides and downsides are. Communications contains the fields of newspaper publishing, magazine publishing, book publishing, radio and TV, advertising, public relations, technical writing, literary agents, communication educators and other communications careers.
  • Understanding By Design - Wiggins, Grant and McTighe, Jay, 1998. This book focuses on a differnt use for performance assessment. From years of experience developing, testing and critiquing assessment tasks, the authors have concluded that performance is the key to assessing understanding. A framework for teacher planning is offered. The design of lessons to engage students in exploring and deepening their understanding of important ideas and the design of assessments to reveal the extent of their understanding. How far away from design are we?

    • Check out a few back issues of any of the following journals:

  • Learning and Leading with Technology, contains lots of curriculum ideas
  • Hand-on English, bi-monthly periodical with strategies and activities to use with English as a Second Language students. (Vicki Cook, Reading Link at Kaskaskia was published in Nov/Dec 1997 issue)
  • LDA Newsbriefs, includes items of interest on learning disabilities.
  • The Math Practitioner, contains excellent classroom activities and worksheets on a variety of topics.
  • The Bill of Rights in Action, contains world and national easy-to-read, in depth articles.

    New videos you can request on a free loan basis

    Are You Better Off Working? - Curtis and Associates, Inc. This short 30 minute video provides innovative strategies for motivating the unemployed to self-sufficiency. Great to use with your job skills curriculum.

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