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Tackle one of the toughest hurdles in adult and correctional education: helping those with low reading skills become proficient readers and writers. Join this webinar to learn a simple foundational literacy framework to empower non-readers, multilingual learners, and students below 6th-grade reading levels. Discover evidence-based teaching models, valuable resources, and strategies for quickly acquiring skills to decode and comprehend complex texts. Let's remedy the adult reading rift together! Original webinar date: April 25, 2024 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/CzOgA3CfF2Q
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Reading a good poem draws us in and opens us up. Discussing poems in adult education classrooms elicits critical thinking and comprehension skills – crucial for passing high school equivalency tests. Reading and writing poems encourages social and emotional learning, heightening connection with others and increasing self-awareness — crucial for a good life. During this webinar, we will discuss and demonstrate strategies, resources, and lesson plans for teaching poetry in face-to-face and remote classrooms. Original webinar date: June 13, 2022 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/iKzGEktoulI
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As of April 2020, estimates of the literacy and numeracy skills of U.S. adults using data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) are available for all states and counties. This webinar will demonstrate a new, and interactive user-friendly tool (called the U.S. PIAAC Skills Map) that shows these estimates. The Skills Map allows users to compare the estimates of any county to those of its state or compare the estimates of any state to the national estimates. It also allows users to compare the estimates for any two counties or for any two states. Examples on how you can effectively use this tool for funding and policy decisions on targeting the population most in-need will be provided. Original Air Date: June 26, 2020 Webinar Recording: https://youtu.be/AQa5doZXSjI
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This webinar will explore strategies for effective reading instruction for those practicing social distancing. The webinar will incorporate free online tools to address fluency development, vocabulary development, and offer tips for helping students who do not have access to technology and online learning environments. Recording link: https://youtu.be/2jiw8Hrk_y4 Original Air Date: May 29, 2020 Handout link: https://files.constantcontact.com/94655a8e201/99cf3017-bd8e-4ce9-bd02-fe6da7836b92.pdf Q&A link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DSxklwIHkpCdTqDdKWZvrRGu6MHEqZ-q-t_OzhomsYk/edit?ts=5ed19e36#gid=0
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Are your students proficient and effective readers? Can they analyze and evaluate what they read, or do they struggle with basic comprehension? Do your students struggle with drawing conclusions or making inferences? In this webinar, we will explore reading and reasoning strategies that will help students better understand what they read, whether they are preparing for the GED® test or dealing with real-life reading needs at work or home. Recording link: https://youtu.be/98a9AErkB4k Original Air Date: May 15, 2020
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In order for English language learners to take full advantage of today’s career and educational opportunities, they need to rise to the higher expectations for academic rigor as outlined in the College and Career Readiness Standards, and achieve measurable outcomes as defined by the Workforce Investment Opportunity Act. How can we meet these rising expectations in our general English language classes? By enriching the content we teach, broadening the contexts of English to include workplace and academic communication, scaffolding rigorous tasks, and increasing the range and frequency of higher order thinking skills. Join this webinar to see how the new edition of Future has risen to today’s higher expectations. We will highlight how the new edition’s reading and writing strands scaffold challenging tasks from the start, and how the Future’s new workplace soft-skill strand engages students’ culture skills in collaborative problem-solving tasks.You must be logged in to download this resource. Register now if you don't have an account.
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Did you know...in 2019, there will be 6 million job openings for information security professionals—but only 4.5 million security professionals to fill those roles? It is time to bridge the confidence gap. Alamo Colleges has developed the Cyber Core-4 Pathway to help adult education students bridge the confidence gap and complete a suite of 4 CompTIA Certificates in less than a year. Alamo I-BEST started the journey by posing as CompTIA instructors and attending the national conference. Over 50 completed students later, it is time to share the surprising things they learned. Let’s bridge the cyber confidence gap together. Alamo Colleges will share the truths, myths, and best practices.
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Are you teaching your students to think about their thinking? Are you giving them opportunities to build their critical thinking skills to problem solve? Let’s have fun together discovering metacognition activities, strategies, and lessons to build important thinking skills for success in class and in life. Teaching critical thinking is good for ALL students and especially important in reaching those with learning difficulties.