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Adult learners and nontraditional students may be discouraged by the thought of paying for school and handling the workload along with their other financial, family, and community responsibilities. This sessions will empower students to further career goals through college or other forms of continuing education.
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CAELA - The Center for Adult English Language Acquisition - has developed an excellent free resource designed to provide Training for both novice and experienced teachers of adult English Language Learners. The resource provides information on how to use the CAELA Website as a resource for professional development, as well as step by step guidelines for providing coaching, peer mentoring, study circles, and workshops for local program staff. This presentation focused on the Teaching Writing Workshop guidelines.
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Seeking a deeper, more personal experience for your adult ESOL learners? Looking for a way to make reading more interesting? Explore how to use high interest, low reading-level biographies to create 10 weeks of integrated language curriculum. Using books that feature inspirational global figures naturally draws in curious minds and brings out prior knowledge. You will practice how to look at text with an eye to expanding to the personal realm, encouraging deep and individual connection to material. You will also look beyond the words to bring the world of your book to life. In addition, you will see how to create extensive language practice, linking what you are reading to writing, speaking and listening activities. Come ready to practice planning as a teacher and also experience language activities as a student. This hands-on workshop provides routines and techniques you can use right away!
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In many classrooms reading comprehension is addressed by having students read passages and answer questions about what they have read. While this is definitely a necessary part of practice, it does not provide them with strategies to improve their ability to comprehend texts. In this session instructors will practice 10 specific reading strategies that they can use with students to help make the practices of successful readers a part of their classroom instruction. The goal is to give instructors the tools to expand their personal repertoire, but also to broaden the scope of reading instruction at their program sites.
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Focus and memory are essential life and work skills. Teaching our students to improve their focus and increase their memory capacity could be the most important topic we teach! Learn what the research on memory says, how we can use research to inform instruction, and have fun learning to remember! Classroom ideas and resources will be shared. Unmask your potential AND the potential of your students.
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Visually organizing ideas and information can assist all of our learners, especially those with learning difficulties, to gain deeper understanding, retain information, to generalize to new topics and make life and job/career applications. Gather new models, learn fun approaches for implementation, and broaden your graphic organizer horizons.
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Do you have a pressing issue that you wish researchers would investigate? Do you wish researchers would publicize their findings in language that everyone can understand? If so, you may be interested in learning about federally funded partnerships between practitioners and researchers. This session will provide examples of practitioners and researchers working together to address key issues in adult basic education and literacy. Practitioners and researchers often have similar questions about adult basic education services, yet they often do not have an opportunity to collaborate as equal partners in exploring these questions. Panelists in this session will explain how practitioners and researchers can work together to address relevant issues in our field. Audience members will have a chance to share their experiences working in collaborations and discuss ways to address challenges, frustrations, and obstacles that often occur during collaborative endeavors.