Professional Development

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Do your practitioners struggle to find professional development opportunities that fit their limited and/or busy schedule? After participating in a training opportunity, have your practitioners ever wished they could return to a specific portion of the presentation right when it was needed? Would you like to offer specific training resources to practitioners according to their individual needs and goals? Self-paced interactive tutorials may be the answer. In this workshop, the presenter shared a method for creating and offering professional development to practitioners anytime, anywhere. See how well this method has worked for Minnesota practitioners and explore how it might be useful for you. ATTACHMENTS: Tips to Create a Zaption 1 Able Instruction Sheet 2 COABE Session 1 ABLE PD 2

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This roundtable discussion will focus on how to design an Academic I-BEST program that meets the needs, social needs, and goals of adult education students by allowing them to reenter the workforce more quickly than was possible under previous delivery models ATTACHMENTS: Implementing an Academic I BEST program

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How can adult education instructors maximize teaching time in the classroom? Use interdisciplinary infographics! This presentation explores how ready-made authentic infographics can be used as a tool to engage students in constructing meaningful knowledge, and gaining conceptual understanding, of real-life math as they explore it through the lens of infographics. This presentation contains links to resources that model how students can create their own infographics that demonstrate their understanding of, and connections within and between, a specific content area and the numeric data that supports the subject matter. Though this presentation focuses on how infographics can be used in the math classroom, connections to social studies and writing activities are made explicit.  The resource section provides educators with numerous websites that they can access to get started using infographics in the classroom. In the workshop at COABE 2016, we created a simple infographic which is pictured. ATTACHMENTS: How To Contextualize Math Using Infographics 1

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TRAIN Tex (Training, Resource and Innovation Network) is the profession development system for Texas, which has evolved in response to WIOA and the Texas Workforce Commission's strategic plan, designed to integrate adult education services within the workforce system.  TRAIN Tex  expands professional development services beyond traditional adult education grantees and now includes non-funded organizations, workforce boards and employers.  Professional development providers include a variety of organizations, working together in a network aimed at building the capacity of adult education service providers. ATTACHMENTS: TRAIN Tex handout final Presentation TRAIN Tex Innovations in Professional Development

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Making a shift to more rigorous instruction means conceptual understanding and application in real-world contexts have importance equal to procedural skill and fluency. With that in mind, we'll look at a sample unit that uses a discovery approach to teaching mathematics. This approach is one of the building tools used to create a strong foundation of conceptual understanding in our students. The building blocks of this unit include six lessons that can be used to bring CCR Level B -“ D students to a higher level. Coherence between levels and connected ideas provides the mortar to use these building blocks to achieve a solid base for algebra.     Activities for the session include mental math exercises to illustrate several of the properties of operations, writing expressions using bingo chip arrays, and looking at student work. Participants will leave with access to a unit of six lessons and the digital materials to teach this unit in their own classrooms, as well as their own deeper understanding of the properties of operations.   See the end of the slides for more detailed instructions on accessing the unit at achieve.org/equip. ATTACHMENTS: Conceptual Understanding of the Order of Operations COABE 2015 SLIDES1

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A short, free, authentic professional development video for teachers in which an adult educator uses a writing process that involves writing quickly in a journal, without thinking, so students' ideas come out fast. She gives a topic, Last Week's Experiences. She stresses as a purpose writing to learn something, to find their thoughts on issues, on themselves and others. She asks the students to pick one of these experiences and focus on it, to list a group of words that come to mind as they think about that experience or event. Students individually brainstorm, by themselves, without thinking about the ideas, without being critical, to free their minds to generate ideas. Then she asks them to write a short paragraph about the Event. She asks for a topic sentence and at least three sentences. The students said this helped to clarify their feelings and discover priorities. The video will be found at this web address: http://www.mlots.org/?page_id=72

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The Adult Numeracy Network is the professional organization of adult educators, researchers, and professional developers who are dedicated to quality math instruction for adult learners. Our national community gathers every year for a full day of active learning from each other and from our experienced presenters. Join us as we explore research-based mathematics instruction that will enrich our students' mathematical understanding. New to working with adult numeracy and mathematics? Looking for inspiration to refresh your experienced practice? Practitioners at any experience level are welcome to join us.   Here is a PDF of the presentation:   ANN Preconference - COABE Dallas 2016 v9 ATTACHMENTS: ANN Preconference COABE Dallas 2016 v9

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This workshop makes classroom action research practical and accessible. Formative assessment learning techniques combined with the professional development methods of classroom action research and communities of inquiry provide a mechanism for self-sustained continuing professional development at the local level (Creswell, 2012; Kerka, 2003).  This workshop emphasizes collaborating and learning with peers about what happens  in the classroom to find ways to make learning more effective and efficient. For adult educators, systemic inquiry and intellectual challenge are powerful sources of motivation, growth, and renewal- (Angelo & Cross, 1993, p.10). When students are participants in, as well as are the focus of, an active system of inquiry and intellectual challenge, they also receive the benefits of motivation, growth, and renewal. ATTACHMENTS: COABE Workshop Action Research