2009 Regional Calendar
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July 1, 2009: Building Community in the Culturally Diverse Classroom will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Noon, at Houston READ Commission Training Center, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenter is Liliana Black. This workshop shows how knowledge and respect for students’ cultures can engage adult learners in new ways and increase student retention. Participants will practice creative strategies to increase cultural awareness, work together, and create a community of learners. The session is geared toward ESL teachers at all levels; however, ABE/ASE teachers may find it useful as well. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800165, registration number 15507, and section number CY 607. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 1, 2009: Bringing Our Whole Selves to Teaching and Learning will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Noon, at Houston READ Commission Training Center, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenter is Lauri Cherian. The training is designed to help teachers identify and manage stressors in their lives and in the lives of their students. They will engage in a variety of activities that will promote better physical, mental and emotional well being for themselves and for their students. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800135, registration number 15534, and section number CY 609. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 1, 2009: Communication in the Workplace will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Noon, at Houston READ Commission Training Center, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenter is Margaret Flint. This session will provide adult education teachers with an interactive training that incorporates best practices into the importance of clear, concise and correct communication skills in the workplace. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800069, registration number 15549, and section number CY 611. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 1, 2009: How to Manage the ESL Classroom will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Houston READ Commission Training Center, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenter is Liliana Black The workshop will examine some common ESL classroom management problems, and will suggest ways of avoiding or solving these. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800122, registration number 15516, and section number CY 608. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu
July 1, 2009: Effective Ways to Use Authentic Material will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Houston READ Commission Training Center, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenter is Margaret Flint. This professional development course is designed to show teachers how to utilize authentic materials in the classroom. Participants will learn ways to introduce students to the culture that surrounds them and to help them navigate through it in this interactive and activity filled session. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800164, registration number 15543, and section number CY 610. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 1, 2009: TEAMS Training for Administrators will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Houston READ Commission Training Center, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenter is Bill Medina. This Professional Development session is intended for administrators and experienced data entry staff who are current TEAMS users. The focus is on accessing, understanding, and applying information collected and processed through the Texas Educating Adults Management System (TEAMS) for program improvement. Participants will develop a lesson integrating strategies discussed. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800125, registration number 15557, and section number CY 612. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 1, 2009: How to Plan an Effective Lesson will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Houston READ Commission Training Center, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenter is Audrey Nelson-Ricks. The training is designed to help ABE/ASE GED/ESL teachers focus on how to plan, develop and write effective lesson plans. Hands-on and interactive activities will be included. Participants will be allowed time to develop a lesson plan that can be implemented in the classroom. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800260, registration number 15560, and section number CY 613. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 1, 2009: BaFa BaFa will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., noon, and resuming from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Houston READ Commission, 6402 Market Street, Houston 77020. Presenters are Karen Couey and Martin Loa. In this training participants come to understand the powerful effects that culture plays in every person's life. BaFa BaFa is a simulation activity that helps participants become personally aware of the issues surrounding cultural differences by putting them into one of two created cultures and requiring interaction with the other one. The resulting misperceptions and misunderstandings become the grist for the debriefing. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800167, registration number 15781, and section number CY 615. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 10-11, 2009: FUNdamentals of Active Learning is a two-day workshop that will be held from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on July 10 and from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on July 11 at HCDE, Irvington Learning Center, 626 Lindale, Houston 77022. Presenter is Barbara Baird. Research indicates that students learn best when actively engaged in their own learning. This highly interactive workshop is designed to provide ESL/ABE/ASE teachers with fun and engaging activities to enliven classroom teaching and learning. Through modeling and hands-on activities, teachers will learn useful teaching strategies that can be integrated into their classrooms. Participants will "learn by doing" and will be up and around participating in the different activities to learn first-hand how to facilitate and process the creative yet practical activities. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 11, 2009: BEST Plus will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Houston Community College, 3100 Main St, Lab BD 12 (basement), Houston, 77002. Presenter is Judy Bowman. The participants will study the rationale for the BEST Plus test and acquire sufficient mastery of the BEST Plus test to perform duties of a tester in administering, scoring, and interpreting the scores. Participant MaterialsNeeded: Each participant MUST bring a Test Administrator's Guide to be certified as a BEST Plus test administrator Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800043, registration number 16370, and section number CY616. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 11, 2009: TABE 9 & 10 will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Harris County Department of Education, 626 Lindale, Houston 77022. Presenter is Bill Medina. This training will provide the CTB/McGraw-Hill certification requirements on the best practices of administering, scoring, and interpreting the TABE 9/10. Each participant will receive a copy of the official TABE 9/10 training workbook. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800036, registration number 17447, and section number CY 626. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 11, 2009: BEST Literacy will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Harris County Department of Education, 626 Lindale, Houston 77022. Presenter is Bill Medina. This training is intended for anyone who administers or scores the BEST Literacy Test. Using the manual, participants will investigate proper test administration and scoring procedures, practice scoring writing samples, and acquire a basic knowledge of the content. By the end of the session participants should be able to use the writing rubric for scoring writing samples and follow the manual mandates for accurate scoring on the other sections. All participants must bring his/her own BEST Literacy Test Manual (10/06).Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800141, registration number 17442, and section number CY 619. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
July 17, 2009: Oxford University Press will sponsor two workshops presented by author Jayme Adelson-Goldstein at Houston Community College, Auditorium, 3100 Main Street (77002). Lunch will be provided. Attendees will receive the following publications and handouts: Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd Edition (2009); Vocabulary Development Handbook - an invaluable resource that provides a review of current research on vocabulary development and shows how research informs instruction; Professional Development Handbook which offers research-based teaching strategies, tasks and reproducible activities to support teachers in building a repertoire of effective instructional strategies; and an Activity Packet that provides a wealth of materials created specifically by Jayme for the workshop for you to use in your classroom. This is a collection of Jayme’s most useful and exciting classroom activities. This package has a retail value of $200! Please use the special registration forms below to register for these two trainings. (You will need Microsoft® Word to view this registration form. Please download Microsoft® Word Reader if you do not have Microsoft® Word on your computer.)
A Lexical Feast: Teaching Vocabulary Strategies Across Levels will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Noon. Vocabulary acquisition is key to our learners’ language skill development and research shows that the direct instruction of vocabulary is essential for successful acquisition. This lighthearted workshop will explore the vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) that learners at all levels can use to develop their active vocabulary. We’ll also work with practice activities that support the five stages of vocabulary acquisition within a communicative lesson: comprehension, retention, recognition out of the original context, production, and ownership. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800265, registration number 09240, and section number CY 593. Special Registration Form (Microsoft® Word document). For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu
Picturing Success in the Multilevel Classroom: Resources that Reach Across Levels will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The multilevel teaching environment requires that instructors provide synchronous instruction to learners with diverse needs and proficiencies. To meet that challenge, we need resources that will work at multiple levels and in multiple contexts. In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to use visual and audio resources to support multilevel instruction in both narrow and broad spectrum multilevel classes. We’ll also see how developing a repertoire of strategies and activities can make multilevel lesson planning less arduous! Throughout this session, you’ll have the opportunity to work with presentation strategies as well as same-level and mixed-level practice activities that can be easily adapted for use in your own classroom or professional development trainings. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800266, registration number 09242, and section number CY 594. Special Registration Form (Microsoft® Word document). For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu
July 25, 2009: BEST Plus will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lone Star College North Harris,250 N. Sam Houston Pkwy E., Greenspoint Center Room 306, Houston 77060. Presenter is Bill Medina. The participants will study the rationale for the BEST Plus test and acquire sufficient mastery of the BEST Plus test to perform duties of a tester in administering, scoring, and interpreting the scores. Participant Materials Needed: Each participant MUST bring a Test Administrator's Guide to be certified as a BEST Plus test administrator. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800043, registration number 17457, and section number CY 625. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
August 1, 2009: BEST Plus Refresher Toolkit will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lone Star College North Harris,250 N. Sam Houston PKWY E., Greenspoint Center Room 306, Houston, 77060. Presenter is Jill Kaeser. This training is designed to recalibrate approved BEST Plus test administrators. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses regarding administration and accurate scoring of the BEST Plus. Participants will practice using the scoring rubric to provide justification for scoring each of the three language aspects. After practice, participants will complete a BEST Plus scoring calibration assessment. Each participant must bring his/her own TAG (Test Administrator’s Guide) and their own Scoring Refresher Workbook. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800128, registration number 17450, and section number CY 621. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
August 8, 2009:: DL 101: Implementing Distance Learning for Adult Education in Texas will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at College of the Mainland, 1200 Amburn Road, Texas City,. Presenter is Renata Russo. Distance education is now an option for adult education and family literacy programs in Texas. Teachers who wish use this approach are required to participate in Distance Learning 101: Teaching Adult Learners at a Distance (DL 101). This course is itself a distance course and is designed to help teachers and administrators develop a distance education plan for an approved curriculum for their program. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800158, registration number 17458, and section number CY 622. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
August 20, 2009: BEST Literacy will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at House of Amos, 8030 Boone Rd. Houston, 77020. Presenter is Jill Kaeser. This training is intended for anyone who administers or scores the BEST Literacy Test. Using the manual, participants will investigate proper test administration and scoring procedures, practice scoring writing samples, and acquire a basic knowledge of the content. By the end of the session participants should be able to use the writing rubric for scoring writing samples and follow the manual mandates for accurate scoring on the other sections. All participants must bring his/her own BEST Literacy Test Manual (10/06).Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800141, registration number 17482, and section number CY 624. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
August 21, 2009: BEST Plus for Non-Testers will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. at House of Amos, 8030 Boone Rd. Houston, 77020. Presenter is Jill Kaeser. This training is intended for teachers, administrators and other adult education staff involved with but not actually administering BEST Plus. The training will explore objectives, content areas and question types of the BEST Plus oral interview. Participants will experience scoring and appropriate test administration procedures. Test taking techniques will also be discussed Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800129, registration number 17463, and section number CY 623. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu.
August 29, 2009: Effective Multi-level Strategies for Adult ESL Learners (Module 3) will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Brazosport College’s Community Education Center, 120 Circle Way, Suite 2A, Lake Jackson, 77566. Presenter is Audrey Nelson-Ricks. This interactive training focuses on appropriate lesson planning strategies, group strategies, and effective multi-level activities. It includes theory and strategies to use in teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing to a multi-level class. Classroom management techniques, test preparation, orientation procedures, multi-sensory lesson planning, and proficiency objectives of the Texas Content standards will be presented. Modules are sequential, but can be presented in three separate trainings. It is recommended that the training be conducted on two separate days: Day One three hours (Module One) and Day Two six hours (Modules Two and Three). Modules One and Two are pre-requisites for this class. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800082, registration number 14091, and section number CY 603. Coastal Registration form For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu
September 17, 2009: Coastal Region Great Center Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting will be held at Lone Star College – Fairbanks Center, 14955 Northwest Freeway - Room 217, Houston 77040, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. For
more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu
