As stated, the ABE teacher is encouraged to utilize a variety of teaching strategies in the classroom. The best way to accomplish this is to plan daily schedules that can be posted. In this way, students could plan their schedules around the days' activities. The daily plan should include several strategies with special topics listed for each day.
As mentioned previously, grade equivalency scores are not the most meaningful for assessing adult students' progress. However, since we use the grade equivalency scores throughout the state of Florida, every ABE teacher should understand how the grade levels increase in steps.
The reading conversion table can be used as an example. There are 50 items on the reading subtest. A student getting 15 items correct would have a grade level of 2.9. If that student gained just five more points on the posttest, the grade level would change to 5.0. If 11 more points were gained (from 15), the grade level would change to 7.0. Actually, this would not mean the student gained four grade levels. Instead, it would show the student learned or acquired more of the academic skills measured by the TABE. Therefore, it is very important for the student to have remediation that utilizes the TABE content. Doing this gives the student the best opportunity to raise his or her grade level score.