TRAINING MATERIAL

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2006-2007

New Teacher Academy IV

ABE Master Teacher Action Learning Academy

GED Reading Academy

ESL Listening and Speaking Academy

GED Math Academy

ESL Academy: Teaching with Technology

Classroom Management Institute IV

Workforce Literacy Institute II

2006-2007 Training Material

TITLE

New Teacher Academy IV (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Ms. Barbara Baird

LOCATION

El Paso Community College - Valle Verde

DESCRIPTION

The academy is targeted to new teachers in the Adult Education field. The facilitator will provide resources to lesson plans, classroom activities, and brainstorming sessions that will assist the attendees in exploring new methods to address classroom needs. A mentoring component is included in the Academy that will connect an experienced teacher with a novice. As part of the mentoring component, the mentee shall evaluate his-her own teaching methods and explore new delivery based on the information presented in the Academy's sessions. Presentation of the modifications made will be presented during the last academic session.

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WORK COMPLETED

TITLE

ABE Master Teacher Action Learning Academy (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Ms. Barbara Baird

LOCATION

El Paso Community College - Valle Verde Campus

DESCRIPTION

This sustained professional development initiative provides training to ABE/GED Master Teachers in an action research process of developing, implementing, and evaluating personal Active Learning Projects to improve teaching in their classrooms. The participants are guided step-by-step from the initial design of a project, through data gathering and analysis, to presenting final conclusions. Components include self-evaluation, critical inquiry, reflective teaching and professional dialogue.

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WORK COMPLTED

TITLE

GED Reading Academy (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Ms. Susan Pittman and Ms. Bonnie Vondracek

LOCATION

Socorro Community Learning Center

DESCRIPTION

The academy will consist of three professional development workshops that will focus on reading: Session 1 - Teaching in the Multilevel Classroom, Session 2 - Reading, WRiting, and Understanding, Session 3 - Read All About It - Using Authentic Texts in the Adult Education Classroom. The workshops will be research-based and will include strategies and activities that teachers can take back to the classroom. Each workshop will also include resource materials that teachers can use in the classroom when conducting individualized, small-or large-group instructional activities. Each workshop will be designed to provide teachers with an opportunity to build lessons and activities that they can use in their own classrooms.

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FOLLOW UP ASSIGNMENT

Follow up Assignment

WORK COMPLETED

TITLE

ESL Listening and Speaking (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Ms. Heide Wrigley

LOCATION

Socorro Community Learning Center

DESCRIPTION

This course presents ideas and activities that get students interacting in English even at the very beginning levels. Teachers will learn how to use pictures and drawings to stimulate conversation, create games to keep students talking, and develop simple role plays to teach every English. Photographs, popular songs and video clips will be used to illustrate how students can be motivated to speak more English and improve their listening skills.

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WORK COMPLETED

TITLE

GED Math Academy (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Ms. Susan Pittman and Ms. Bonnie Vondracek

LOCATION

Socorro Community Learning Center

DESCRIPTION

This academy is appropriate for any adult instructor who wants to develop teaching strategies for problem solving, geometry, graphic and numerical analysis and who wants to develop teaching strategies for preparing students for the math section of the GED.

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TITLE

ESL Academy: Teaching with Technology (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Ms. Heide Wrigley and Mr. Jim Powrie

LOCATION

Socorro Community Learning Center

DESCRIPTION

This institute will demonstrate how pictures, story boards, and Power Point presentations can be used to engage students and promote active learning. Participants learn how to use visual materials effectively in teaching and how to engage students in creating their own projects. Teachers will have access to digital cameras, laptops, and LCD projectors that can be checked out for use in the classroom.

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WORK COMPLETED

TITLE

Classroom Management Institute: Effective Multilevel Strategies for Adult English Language Learners (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Kay Vaccaro and Eduardo Honold

LOCATION

Region XIX Service Center

DESCRIPTION

This two-day institute models effective multilevel lesson planning and grouping strategies based on Texas' new WSL Content STandards, and provides opportunities for teachers to try out activities an strategies. At the end of the workshop, teachers ill be asked to develop and implement their own multi-level lesson plan in their classrooms. This training module has been adapted from CAELA materials on lesson planning as well as a multilevel ESL workshop developed fro CALPRO and a 3-day workshop sponsored by HCDE Adult Education Division.

PRESENTATION AND HANDOUTS

Presentation

FOLLOW UP ASSIGNMENT

TITLE

Workforce Literacy Institute II (Back to Top)

FACILITATOR

Equipped for the Future

LOCATION

Region XIX Head Start Multipurpose Center

DESCRIPTION

This two-day institute will be facilitated by Equipped for the Future and will introduce the Preparing for Work Curriculum. The sessions will include hands-on training on curriculum modules and explanation of connections among EFF Standards, SCANS skills, and the Work Readiness Credential.

PRESENTATION AND HANDOUTS

Presentation

FOLLOW UP ASSIGNMENT

Follow up assignment and form

 

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