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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
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Participants will learn: how to access videos online how to create their own videos, using tablets and smartphones how to share video content through a class website, Facebook, YouTube, TeacherTube, and Vimeo. ATTACHMENTS: Integrating Video into Adult Teaching and Learning
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A preliminary first-year summary of the Adult Learner Leadership in Education Services (ALLIES) evaluation study undertaken by VALUEUSA is attached, as presented at COABE 2015. So far nearly 300 adult learners in six states have participated in this experimental study on the effects of student involvement as leaders in adult education programs. VALUEUSA's two-year study is funded by Dollar General Literacy Foundation in partnership with Research Allies for Lifelong Learning. ATTACHMENTS: ALLIES Preliminary Summary March 2015 Final
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These three short, free, authentic professional development videos for teachers or tutors draw on five principles of effective vocabulary instruction from the research of Curtis and McKeown, 1987. See http://www.ncsall.net/?id=466, in an article in Focus on Basics, Connecting Research and Practice, Volume 2, Issue A, The nature of vocabulary acquisition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.) The five principles are: 1) Students get numerous opportunities to learn a word's meaning; 2) Words are presented in a variety of contexts; 3) Students are asked to process words in active, generative ways; 4) Distinctions as well as similarities among words' meanings are stressed; and 5) improvement is emphasized in students' ability to use words in speaking and writing, as well as to recognize their meanings. The adult reading teacher introduces the theory, and the lessons, and then we see the lessons in progress. The web address for these videos is http://www.mlo ts.org/?page_id=59