Professional Development

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In this session, the presenters will share ways you can engage your community, staff, and students in promoting adult education and impacting important legislative discussions. In addition to providing an overview of the national Educate & Elevate campaign, presenters will provide some basic advocacy information and share practical ways that instructors can incorporate advocacy in their classrooms and become better advocates for their students. They will share how adult education teachers can engage students in advocacy through a series of classroom taught lessons, class outings, service projects, and volunteer work.  Presenters will provide participants with resources and examples of advocacy activities and events that can be replicated in the ABE and ESOL classrooms. Opportunity to ask questions and share ideas.

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This presentation addresses the most-frequently-asked questions concerning design and development of a College Transitions Program, such as: 1). How do we recruit students and teachers?   2). Once the program begins, how can we support and retain our students and teachers? 3). How can we measure the success of the program? 4). How can we scale and sustain our Transitions program beyond the current levels and funding sources? ATTACHMENTS: Manage Evaluate and Expand Your Transitions Program_Gill

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This presentation covers  the most-frequently-asked questions concerning design and development of a Transitions Program, such as: 1). What is a Transitions Program?   2). What are the benefits of Transitions Programs-”to students, faculty, and programs, etc?   3). How can such a program be designed and implemented? 4).   What are the best features and most promising practices of successful Transitions Programs? All viewers will walk away with a thorough knowledge of the core elements of successful Transitions Program and a plan for developing their own. ATTACHMENTS: How To Create a Transitions Program_Gill C

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Computer-assisted Instruction for Work-related Basic Reading and Numeracy includes two short, free, basic reading and numeracy professional development videos for teachers. Students preparing to be nursing assistants are shown in a computer lab using KeyTrain computer-assisted instruction software in an authentic class providing basic reading and numeracy.  Interviews provide background on Notre Dame Education Center (NDEC) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, its computer-assisted instruction program, and its related job skills training, work readiness and support services. Computer-assisted instruction coaches discuss the program and how students use the instructional software; and two students discuss how they use computer-assisted instruction at the program and at home. Links to the videos and a document that shows which math and reading skills in the curriculum are used by nursing assistants will be found at http://www.mlots.org/?page_id=61

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A short, free, authentic professional development video for teachers in which an adult ESOL teacher, basing his lesson on Stephen Krashen's theory of natural language, creates a relaxed atmosphere for language learning, lowering the affective filter- to help students take risks in learning the new language. He includes American baseball as content because some of the students had said they want to better understand the game. The video will be found at this web address: http://www.mlots.org/?page_id=76

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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