To help her learners solve math problems, Abby Magee of the Notre Dame Education Center in South Boston, Massachusetts writes students’ proposed solutions on the board and then asks them to discuss how they arrived at their answers.

Ed Pirie with Central Vermont Adult Basic Education in Barre, Vermont explains test taking strategies to one of his GED® students by modeling his problem-solving process out loud so the student sees and hears how the process works.

Adult educators across the nation can see these pros in action, and more than 60 others through the Media Library of Teaching Skills, or MLoTS. Developed by David Rosen and Owen Hartford. MLoTS is a free, online digital library of short videos designed to provide professional development for adult educators.

"MLoTS is now the "go to" library for adult ed classroom videos, including ESL/ESOL, basic literacy, reading, writing, numeracy, adult secondary ed, family literacy, and integrating technology," says Rosen. "It also includes two videos of teachers discussing these classroom videos, as well as downloadable questions that can be used for teachers‘ discussions of the videos."

According to Rosen, each video is an example of a state-approved content standard, research-based practice, preferred approach, or specific teaching method or skill. In some cases these are examples of a particular state‘s approved curriculum frameworks or content standards.

Some of the videos in the free, online library were made and edited by the MLoTS team; others were created by individuals or organizations and are conveniently linked here so teachers can find and view them.

"Please take some time and look at the videos that interest you," Rosen encourages adult educators. "We hope that in the future some videos will be made by adult education teachers. The MLoTS team will train teachers, and they will work in pairs or small groups to video each other. MLoTS will then edit the videos."

By the way, if you want to know how to pronounce MLoTS, Rosen answers, "MmmmmLots" because that‘s how many short videos he hopes to have in the online library.

For more information, visit the MLoTS website. If you are interested in this model for your state, email David Rosen at drosen@mlots.org or phone him at 617.522.7020.