TRAINING: Instructional Strategies
AUDIENCE: ESL Instructors Hrs:
3
DESCRIPTION:Instructional strategies are presented
giving the participants the purpose and the procedures to be used
for successful application. Participants then create or participate
in their usage. Focus will be Language Experience approach. Role
Play and Role Play Simulations will be created.
TRAINING: Multi-Level Classes
AUDIENCE: ESL Instructors Hrs:
3
DESCRIPTION:Participants will brainstorm problems
they have with multi-level classes. Grouping strategies and a class
flow chart that deals with these situations will be demonstrated.
Based on class groupings and the flow chart, a lesson plan format
will be presented for the participant’s use. Groups will
devise a lesson using that format and present their lesson plans
to the rest of the class. Participants will then discuss if their
problems with multi-level classes have been addressed.
TRAINING: Student Retention
AUDIENCE: ESL, ABE, ASE Instructors Hrs.
3
DESCRIPTION:Participants will become familiar
with tools and strategies that can be used in their classrooms
to impact student retention. Participants will further be made
aware of the impact student retention has on ABE funding.
TRAINING: Characteristics of Individuals Who Learn
Different
Hrs. On-line
DESCRIPTION:The course primarily provides a solid
base of knowledge about how learning and perceptual differences
affect adults’ learning behavior. This course introduces
the concept of a continuum of learning differences, which places
adults with learning differences, problems, and disabilities in
the context of all adult learners and their varying strengths and
weaknesses. It identifies factors other than learning differences
or disabilities which may affect an individual’s learning
and behavior, and explains how these factors may interact with
learning differences or disabilities. It introduces a model of
learning differences that explains how learning and processing
differences (for example, visual, auditory, right/left discrimination,
or organization) affect perception, processing and communication.
You may audit this on-line course. There is no fee, no assignments,
no mentor, no comment board and no interaction with Dr. Richard
Cooper.www.learningdifferences.com/online_ courses
TRAINING: BEST Plus
AUDIENCE: ESL Staff Hrs.
6
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to use technology in language
testing to produce a more accurate measure of speaking and listening.
This training is ideal if you need help in meeting the NRS advanced
level performance measure.
TRAINING: TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education)
AUDIENCE: ABE/ASE Staff Hrs.
6
DESCRIPTION:Participants will learn the process
for performing initial screening, baseline testing and progress
testing. Participants will be provided with opportunities for practice
and to learn the “ground rules” for TABE (Test of Adult
Basic Education) administration.
TRAINING: ACES Level 1
AUDIENCE: ACES Data Entry Hrs.
6
DESCRIPTION:Participants will receive hands-on,
detailed training on how to enter data into ACES, from demographics
to Outcomes, Gains and Achievement.An ACES manual will be provided
for participants.
