Adult Education - AEIS: A TESOL Interest Section

rams are administered by city, state, province, country, federal, and privately funded programs. Organizational structures, standards, and goals follow widely different patterns. Successful adult educators have had to meet the following challenges:

- multilevel and multilingual classes
- irregular attendance of working adult students
- continuous intake and exit of students
- students with widely differing educational, social, cultural, and economic backgrounds and ages
- lack of materials, resources, and equipment
- low social status in the educational establishment
- an uninformed public

Goals

- Develop an awareness of the needs and role of adult education among educators, legislators, and the general public by sharing expertise, insights, and experience

- Address priority topics through workshops, demonstrations, open forums, and discussion sessions

- Assume an advocacy role on any issue requested by the IS membership and deemed appropriate by the steering committee

- Cooperate with other ISs to serve common needs of students and their families

- Expand knowledge and understanding of adult education and ESL through research and intercommunication