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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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Illinois has a rich history of providing services to Adult Education learners. We have moved forward with the implementation of WIOA and the management of the specialized training available to instructors via the Instructional Pathways. In this session, the Illinois Community College Board and the Illinois Service Center Network staff will provide insights into the development of these Instructional Pathways, the components of the training, the data tracking system, and how these pathways are driving professional development in Illinois.
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Allowing space for productive struggle is a way to engage learners in problem solving and build perseverance (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014). In this session we will explore the teacher’s role in developing student agency. Participants will see how stepping back, creating contextual lessons with multiple entry points, and strategic questioning can build student agency and move learners to productive struggle. With increased agency, learners are able to develop robust problem solving sets. They build communication skills to construct viable arguments and, in articulating their developing understanding, learners have an opportunity to use both domain specific vocabulary and the academic vocabulary needed to skillfully negotiate their way through a process.
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During this interactive workshop, participants will learn the nuts and bolts of Integrated Education and Training (IET) and how to create basic skills curriculum to support an IET. Participants will work through a planning process to develop an IET and the basic skills component. Ideas for workforce preparation activities, strategies for working with partners, and particulars about implementing IETs under WIOA will be offered as well. Participants will receive a resource guide containing IET planning and development tools and create an IET implementation and communication plan. There will be many opportunities to network and learn from colleagues.
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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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"Fake news" and misinformation has been with us since the tale of the Trojans falling for a wooden horse. But it has been making big headlines recently. Even major news organizations are devoting teams to fact-checking published reports. So how is an adult learner to figure out what's legit? News for You Editor Jennifer Thompson will present a brief overview of the "fake news" crisis and offer ideas and activities to help learners sharpen their online and news literacy skills. We'll also talk about how News for You works to ensure accuracy and fairness.