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Don’t just present—make an impact. Join COABE PD Coordinator Steve Schmidt and AALPD’s Kim Glenn and Sarah Goldammer for a dynamic webinar on creating engaging, memorable conference presentations. Learn proven strategies to capture attention, avoid common mistakes, and deliver sessions that participants rave about long after the conference ends. Drawing on over 80 years of combined presenting experience, our presenters will share practical tips you can use immediately to elevate your COABE session from good to unforgettable. Original webinar date: March 19, 2026 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/N0oUmYd77Ic
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Sharing your knowledge and expertise at COABE is a priceless present you provide to the adult education community. Preparing for your presentation is key to promoting success. Join this webinar to learn about persistent preparation, passionate performance, and plentiful participation as you ponder the three P’s of powerful presentations. Resources will be provided and an opportunity for individual coaching will be proffered. Original webinar date: March 4, 2024 Webinar recording link:https://youtu.be/eb0BjKNHOjI
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Join AALPD, Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers, in collaboration with COABE, as they share top tips for powerful presentations. Their experiences, both as seasoned presenters as well as participants, lay the foundation for this session. Topics include engaging your audience, both virtual and in person, room management, time management, and quality handouts. Get ready for COABE with the help of your AALPD!
Original webinar date: March 8, 2023
Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/dxFCa0BFuJ8
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In order for English language learners to take full advantage of today’s career and educational opportunities, they need to rise to the higher expectations for academic rigor as outlined in the College and Career Readiness Standards, and achieve measurable outcomes as defined by the Workforce Investment Opportunity Act. How can we meet these rising expectations in our general English language classes? By enriching the content we teach, broadening the contexts of English to include workplace and academic communication, scaffolding rigorous tasks, and increasing the range and frequency of higher order thinking skills. Join this webinar to see how the new edition of Future has risen to today’s higher expectations. We will highlight how the new edition’s reading and writing strands scaffold challenging tasks from the start, and how the Future’s new workplace soft-skill strand engages students’ culture skills in collaborative problem-solving tasks.
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This session will help address some of the common challenges that teachers may encounter during the initial stages of implementation of TABE® 11 & 12 such as where to start, what materials to use, and how to help students succeed in this more rigorous test. This session will focus on teaching strategies and resources that align with the technology-enhanced items and format of the test. In addition, teachers will also explore how to allow students to take full advantage of all the available technology tools on the test. Lastly, teachers will walk away with a wealth of online teaching tools and resources aligned to the TABE® 11 & 12 Assessment Blueprints.
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Did you know...in 2019, there will be 6 million job openings for information security professionals—but only 4.5 million security professionals to fill those roles? It is time to bridge the confidence gap. Alamo Colleges has developed the Cyber Core-4 Pathway to help adult education students bridge the confidence gap and complete a suite of 4 CompTIA Certificates in less than a year. Alamo I-BEST started the journey by posing as CompTIA instructors and attending the national conference. Over 50 completed students later, it is time to share the surprising things they learned. Let’s bridge the cyber confidence gap together. Alamo Colleges will share the truths, myths, and best practices.
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This session provides an overview of first language (L1) use in Ready to Work, a government funded program that combines English language instruction with digital literacy and case management to help beginning level immigrants and refugees gain job readiness skills and explore pathways to college and career success. The presenters review research and literature regarding L1 use in multilingual settings, offer examples from the Ready to Work ESOL classes and ask attendees to consider the role of home language inclusion in creating a collaborative and linguistically appropriate environment for immigrant and refugee students. The session also shares strategies to incorporate students’ L1 knowledge into administrative processes such as intake, registration and advising. Ultimately, the presenters argue, L1 inclusion plays an important role in challenging ideologically rooted monolingual principles and acts as a crucial part of dismantling English-language supremacy and “English Only” mentalities in ESOL settings.
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This time-saving guideline invites adult-ed teacher to be remarkable, do art and make change happen by allowing adult learners to bring out their genius and passion. In other words, this tool is designed to help instructors get learners closer to their dreams, one lesson and one semester at a time . To be specific, this tool focuses on preparing adult students for the real world and facilitating deep-structure learning, promoting soft and irreplaceable skills that are salable in the marketplace or in the gig economy.