Instructional Materials

NEW For additional information re: Instructional Materials please visit the Geneseo Migrant Center.

  • Looking for a Job Sheets is a series of bilingual sheets designed to assist a youth in obtaining and keeping a job. Included are vital basics such as: approaches to job-hunting and employers, filling out applications, identifying work qualities/skills, interviewing skills, contacting references, writing a resume, and keeping a job.

  • Taming the TV Monster is a workshop/lesson designed to provide migrant farmworker parents, guardians, and other caregivers with the information necessary to determine how much television viewing and what kind of television programming is appropriate for their children, to understand the pros and cons of children watching television, and to learn how to monitor and manage television viewing in their home.

VERMONT MINI LESSONS (8/22/2011)

For Your Health/Para Tu Salud (Health)
Developed collaboratively by the National Center for Farmworker Health(NCFH) and the BOCES Geneseo Migrant Center, is a series of bilingual mini-lessons designed to increase the health knowledge of OSY through health education topics. The materials consist of bilingual instructional packets that include teaching plans, an introductory lesson, guided practice, useful vocabulary, practice dialogues, and pre/post tests. The mini-lessons’ non-sequential format lends itself to the limited time and intermittent attendance of the students. The estimated completion date for the ten mini-lessons is May 31, 2009. As each of the ten mini-lessons is developed, it will be available through the OSY website.

English for Working and Living Curriculum Workbook - Vermont
This material may be freely distributed without permission.

Problem Posing ESL for Migrant Farm Workers in Vermont
Addresses the need for ESL materials that are directly relevant to farmworkers’ life experiences and day-to-day problems. The dialogues use problem-posing ESL strategies adapted from The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by the Brazilian adult educator, Paulo Freire. Each dialogue in this booklet is a code, a realistic and relevant representation of the context and content within which students experience problems and face challenges. This booklet is not copyrighted and can be reproduced without permission.

Math on the Move (MOM), developed by the Geneseo Migrant Center, is a series of Pre-GED math lessons geared to out-of-school youth (adult oriented). MOM consists of 24 lessons, in either English or Spanish, which are designed to be used as stand-alone segments to address a particular skill area, although each builds upon assumed knowledge addressed in prior lessons. These materials are not copyrighted, and can be reproduced without permission.

NEW! Math for Living: Ten stand-alone lessons in English and Spanish are designed to improve financial literacy and life skills with examples, practice problems, and vocabulary relating to work, smart shopping, and budgets, as well as information on obtaining the resources for college. Created for use in the MASTERS (Mathematics Achievement and Success Through Engagement in Resources for Migrant Students) Consortium Incentive Grant project, the lessons are non-sequential and written at a middle school reading level. Activities reinforce basic math skills while teaching practical concepts that apply to both everyday life and successful careers.

Bilingual Clip Sheets, also developed by the Geneseo Migrant Center, is a new series of fifty (50) bilingual Clip Sheets developed around the following topical areas: Careers, Opportunities, Health, Looking for a Job and Survival Skills. These Clip Sheets were developed with Out-of-School Youth in mind. These materials are not copyrighted, and can be reproduced without permission.

The Migrant ESL Resource Booklet, developed by the University of Michigan English Language Institute, is intended to be a bilingual resource for teachers and tutors of English as a second language to migrant farmworkers in the USA. The lesson plans were selected from among the institute’s most successful topics and activities; it is not a student book per se, but many pages can be used directly with students. This booklet is not copyrighted, and can be reproduced without permission.

English in Minutes was created by the Tennessee Opportunity Programs (TOPS) to help Spanish speakers learn English. There are five books in the series. They are based on complete conversations of survival English. They contain the phrase in Spanish, English and the phonetics for Spanish speakers to pronounce the phrases correctly. Each book has an accompanying audio CD. These materials are copyrighted, and must be purchased.

2008 ELL Lesson Plans developed by the Tennessee Migrant Education Program (MEP). This manual contains a series of lesson plans targeting the needs, interests and language proficiency of beginning-level adult English Language Learners (ELLs). Within these user-friendly lesson plans, ESL teachers are directed to various on-line resources supporting Life Skills topics such as understanding directions, reading maps, exercise and diet, emergency information, a visit to WalMart, getting a job, etc. These materials are not copyrighted, and can be reproduced without permission.

The Finanza Toolboxis designed to increase the financial knowledge of migrant farmworkers through introduction to eight financial education topics and useful money management practices. Developed for use with children, teens, out-of-school youth and adults, Finanza provides an instructional package that includes bilingual lesson topics, teaching plans, student surveys, and practice activities. The mini-lesson, non-sequential format is particularly adaptable for instructional needs when time is limited or attendance is intermittent. As a product supported by a grant from the New York State Banking Department, these materials are not copyrighted, and can be reproduced without permission.

Living in Americais designed to the needs, interests and language proficiency of beginning-level adult English Language Learners (ELLs). The curriculum, consisting of thirty (30) instructional packets, was developed primarily for migrant farmworkers, but addresses the needs of all ELLs who have very limited literacy and oral skills. The curriculum provides the framework for successful learning, with concise, easy-to-follow directions and a selection of topics that are relevant to the situations and tasks encountered by newly arrived adults. Civics-based lessons, paired with life skill lessons, provide learners with an awareness of the principles and laws that are part of life in the United States. The curriculum developers coined the term “social civics” to account for situations where a particular behavior is inappropriate, but not illegal. The two-lesson packets are non-sequential with each lesson providing approximately 120 – 180 minutes of instruction. The four to six hours of instruction per packet may be divided flexibly to meet the learner’s needs and time requirements. This curriculum is copyrighted, and must be purchased.