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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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Engaging and effective classroom practices and activities in teaching Social Studies with a multiplicity of disciplines including: history, geography, math, science, and technology. Resources, how-tos, hands-on games, maps, hardcopies and computer-based interactions with writing prepare students for the life-skills, ABE, and ASE. Geography, History, Math, Science, Technology ATTACHMENTS: A Multiplicity of Disciplines Social Studies Presentation handout accompaniment M. Matos
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The Transition Program at Hawkeye Community College's Metro Center is bigger and better than ever. This interactive session will illustrate how Adult Education's collaboration and partnerships with other agencies and programs proves essential to every student's successful transition to post secondary, especially in light of WIOA. Hawkeye's Transition Program builds internal partnerships with the English Language Learning (ELL) program, including instructors of Hawkeye's ELL hybrid college preparatory courses. Transition services play a key role in the High School Completion (HSC) program's Welcome Week, Hawkeye's new intake program for HSC students which uses components of Dr. Laura Weisel's PowerPath system. The Transition Program is also an instrumental part of Hawkeye's I-BEST program, and Hawkeye's full-time Transition Specialist works from the Admissions' Office on main campus weekly to continue paving students' path to college credit courses. A close partnership with Iowa Workforce Development ensures that students have access to the Youth Program, various employment opportunities, and multiple funding steams for their education. Participants will experience how Hawkeye's Transition Program has built the program's philosophy of collaboration, which includes components from Dr. Carol Dweck's research on mindset and from Powerpath's participatory learning techniques. ATTACHMENTS: PowerPoint Presentation
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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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Illinois enhances transitioning with a focus on integrating career and technical education with adult education. Learn about the Illinois Transitions Academy as we scale-up and sustain the Accelerating Opportunity initiative through ICAPS (Integrated Career and Academic Preparation System). The Academy assists colleges and partnerships with programs related to ICAPS/AO, Bridge, and Programs of Study. ATTACHMENTS: COABE 2015 presentationfinal1
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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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A short, free, authentic math professional development video for teachers, this GED preparation class is organized in co-operating teams that compete in a Jeopardy game. They are given numeracy problems to solve and teams are awarded points. This is a practice and reinforcement lesson, not a content introduction lesson. The video, Jeopardy Game for Numeracy Reinforcement, will be found at this web address http://www.mlots.org/?page_id=70 .