This blog began in the fall of 2013 as a private forum for the members of a community of practice focused on the meeting the needs of students with limited or interrupted formal education. Along the way, a variety of resources and strategies were gathered and organized to help the members of the community of practice.
That community of practice has since disbanded, but the collected body of information remains, and as the blog creator and administrator I felt it appropriate to share the collection. I have continued to add to it when I have time (which doesn't happen very often), and to reorganize and refine the content found here. It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a comprehensive guide to teaching SLIFE, but it provides a lot of links and suggestions for further investigation. Very little of what you find in the tabs above is original, but instead they provide a summary of the recommendations of others, along with references to the original sources for you to investigate. There are many resources and strategies listed here that I have yet to try personally, and their inclusion here does not represent a personal endorsement. Over time, however, I hope to try them and weed them out and perhaps even add in a few of my own ideas.
In the meantime, while the old discussion posts and conversations have been deleted, I hope to be posting updates from the literature in their place. I continue to seek out new articles and research on this topic and to reflect on them in light of my own practice. This blog gives me a place to document those reflections and curate those articles. If this blog primarily serves that purpose for me alone, it will be enough. If, however, you have stumbled upon this blog and find the content useful in your own practice, all the better. If you know of other content which is relevant to the education of SLIFE and which you feel should be included here, please let me know. Feel free as well to add your comments and suggestions below.
