I read the "NETS-A Standards for Visionary Leadership." It's a document that lists the standards for being a visionary leader and incorporating technology into schools and organizations.
At the Literacy Center of West Michigan, we teach Adult Education. I recruit and train volunteer tutors to teach adults to read, write, or speak and understand the English language. Tutors meet in any public location, out in the community, in order to conduct their tutoring. We train them on the use of research based literacy strategies and provide them with adult learning materials. Not a lot of our learners have access to computers and/or other technologies within their homes or at their tutoring sites.
My role in encouraging the use of technology for teaching adults may be accomplished within the Tutor Training that I teach. I provide KeyTrain access (an online curriculum preparing learners for the WorkKey's assessment and thus a National Career Readiness Certificate), provide lists of adult learning websites, show tutors how to build their own professional networks through Adult Learning sites, lesson planning sites, etc. Within the Literacy Center, we have computers available for adult learners and their tutors to use. The new GED assessment will only be given on computers, so I'd also like to incorporate typing and basic literacy skills into our annual tutor and/or learner in-service schedule.
AS - I wonder what you more difficult part of recruiting adults is? Do you find that are less confident int heir computer skills?
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