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Building pathways to work and academic success requires a solid foundation, wide paths of basic language skills, and narrower paths branching toward learners’ divergent goals. Making instruction relevant for all learners while launching them in many different work and school directions is challenging. How can we help English language learners develop career and academic readiness skills while they explore diverse work interests, employment sectors, and pathways for achieving their goals? And how can we develop general soft skills for employability through the specific functional contexts of the sixteen career pathways and help students develop digital technology skills during their education journey? The presenter will introduce a new course with paving stones for building this path.
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According to a 2016 report from the Learning Policy Institute, the nation is facing a teacher shortage due to a variety of factors, including compensation and lack of resources. Furthermore, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) reports that 32% of children (ages 0-8) in schools are dual language learners (DLLs). Because of these factors, school districts are working to find creative solutions to prevent teacher attrition and serve the needs of all students, especially dual language learners. The presenter will provide an overview of partnerships with Denver Public Schools and Aurora Public Schools to provide creative solutions to these problems, while providing career pathways for immigrants and refugees in the communities. Attendees will leave with a model of how to implement similar programming and a curricular framework, as well as sample tools for instruction for contextualized ESL classes.
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What skills do adult learners need to succeed in today’s world, and how can instructors and programs aid in the acquisition of these skills? During this interactive, student-led session, participants will discuss 21st century skills and explore ideas for building these skills while increasing student engagement through student leadership opportunities. Students from the Mesa Public Schools Adult Education Program in Mesa, Arizona, will highlight the employability skills they have gained and how they have expanded their horizons through participation in program-wide student leadership opportunities. Participants will be introduced to ideas for enhancing student engagement through student leadership activities such as student volunteerism and participation on a student leadership committee.
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Want to learn how collaborative partnerships lead to effective career pathways? Come and discover how a workforce development board, community college, and your employers can successfully implement a pathway for a skilled talent pipeline.
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Many adults who leave high school before graduation go on to lead productive lives through grit and gumption. Some opt to return to our community college to complete their diploma. In addition to the GED® credential, our school offers a competency-based high school diploma program called High School 21+ (HS21+). The HS21+ option allows students to re-enter school with a proficiency focus that incorporates high school credits already earned, documented work and life experience related to high school academics, and technological, literacy, and cognitive skills demonstrations within the classroom. We provide an emergent learning space for achievement and completion that maximizes prior learning success. This session demonstrates competency-based college and career readiness that, through effective interaction and technology-intensive rigor, scaffolds high school completion with workplace and college readiness.
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To meet our college completion goals of tomorrow we must
include the adults of today in our career pathways plans, even if they are below college readiness in their literacy and/or English language skills. But how?
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It is essential to help adult learners build their employability skills, yet sometimes it's hard to find engaging materials to do so. This interactive workshop will offer tools that support the development of skills that are critical to workplace success such as decision making, self-management, working in teams, and problem solving. Participants will experience employability activities as well as receive ideas and materials to use in the classroom. An employability framework, self-appraisal, and sample activities will be provided
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Amarillo College is a community college that was a recent recipient of the College Integration II Pathways Grant. Our college realized that we must increase student persistence through an enhanced orientation and must motivate our students to stay engaged in their classes to withstand the increased demands for performance which will guide them to the workforce or college life, creating a better life for our students.Amarillo College is a community college that was a recent recipient of the College Integration II Pathways Grant. Our college realized that we must increase student persistence through an enhanced orientation and must motivate our students to stay engaged in their classes to withstand the increased demands for performance which will guide them to the workforce or college life, creating a better life for our students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwhrtVF8u4 https://youtu.be/vrwViW9-S9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFjc76baSp0&feature=youtu.be https://youtu.be/vrwViW9-S9Y