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April 2008 Regional Calendar Archive
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April 2008

April 12, 2008: BEST Plus Training for Non-Testers will be held from 9:00 a.m. to Noon, at Harris County Department of Education, Irvington Learning Center, 626 Lindale, Houston 77022. Presenter is Judy Bowman. 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 76260, and section number CY 418. Coastal Registration form. For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu

April 12, 2008: TABE 9 & 10 will be held from 9:00 a.m. to Noon, at Harris County Department of Education, Irvington Learning Center, 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 75816, and section number CY 411. Coastal Registration form. For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu

April 12, 2008: BEST Plus Refresher will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Harris County Department of Education, Irvington Learning Center, 626 Lindale, Houston 77022. Presenter is Judy Bowman. This training is designed for additional practice before the BEST Plus Toolkit Calibration training or as corrective training for remediation following unsuccessful completion of the BEST Plus Toolkit training. CAL certified test administrators will review objectives, content areas and question types of the BEST Plus oral interview, review the scoring rubric, review appropriate test administration procedures, and practice scoring the test. NOTE: Participants are required to have a TAG manual. No one will be allowed to attend the session without a TAG manual. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800110, registration number 76258, and section number CY 417. Coastal Registration form. For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu

April 12, 2008: Texas Adult Education Content Standards Training will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at Harris County Department of Education, Irvington Learning Center, 626 Lindale, Houston 77022. Presenter is: Melanie Mayeaux. This training course is for anyone interested in learning more about the Texas Adult Education Content Standards and Benchmarks (TAESB). The main objectives of the training are to familiarize the audience with the TAESB and to develop lesson plans using the standards and benchmarks. Audience members do not need to have previous knowledge of the TAESB, however, they do need to familiar with adult education programs and practices in Texas. Target audience members would include full-time and part-time adult education teachers ( ABE/ASE, ESL), and adult education program administrators. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800139, registration number 75932, and section number CY 410. Registration is closed.

April 17, 2008: Coastal GREAT Advisory Committee Meeting will be held from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at Fairbanks Center, 14955 Northwest Freeway, Room 214, Houston, 77040. For more information, please contact Tina Washco at (281) 290-5259 or tina.washco@lonestar.edu

April 18, 2008: Geometry and Measurement will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Houston Community College, 3100 Main Street, Seminar B, Houston 77002 . Presenter is Denise Johnson. Geometry and Measurement is designed to provide teachers with creative teaching techniques for units of measurement in different systems to assess the characteristics of lines and geometric figures. The training will include a review on how to convert from metric and customary measures; interpret lines and graphs (e.g., coordinates, perpendicular, parallel, intersections, slope); analyze geometric figures (e.g., angles, congruence, Pythagorean Theorem); and solve problems (e.g., length, perimeter, area, surface area, volume, weight). Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 600159, registration number 77528, and section number CY 420. Coastal Registration form. For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu

April 19, 2008: Algebra, Functions, and Patterns/CABEA 6800157 will be held from 9 a.m. to Noon at Houston Community College, 3100 Main Street, Seminar C, Houston 77002. Presenter is Denise Johnson. Algebra, Functions, and Patterns is designed to provide teachers with creative teaching techniques so that they can create and solve algebraic expressions and explain patterns and functional relationships presented in textual, graphical and other forms. The training will include a review on how to create algebraic expressions and equations to model and solve problems; use variables and equations to represent data provided in tables, graphs, and word problems; analyze tables and graphs to generalize patterns and relationships; and understand functional relationships and solve linear, quadratic, and exponential functions. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800157, registration number 77529, and section number CY 421. Coastal Registration form. For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu

April 19, 2008: Texas Adult Education Content Standards Training will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at College of the Mainland, 1200 Amburn Road, Learning Resource Center Room 279, Texas City. Presenter is Cynthia McConnell. This training course is for anyone interested in learning more about the Texas Adult Education Content Standards and Benchmarks (TAESB). The main objectives of the training are to familiarize the audience with the TAESB and to develop lesson plans using the standards and benchmarks. Audience members do not need to have previous knowledge of the TAESB, however, they do need to familiar with adult education programs and practices in Texas. Target audience members would include full-time and part-time adult education teachers (ABE/ASE and ESL), and adult education program administrators. Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800139, registration number 77533, and section number CY 423. Coastal Registration form. For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu

April 25, 2008: Oxford University Press will sponsor two workshops presented by author Jayme Adelson-Goldstein at Houston Community College, 3100 Main Street, Auditorium. Lunch will be provided and free books will be given to teachers. Please use the special registration forms below to register for these two trainings.

Mastering the Magic and Madness of the Multilevel ESL Classroom, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Multilevel classes are part magic, part madness. In this workshop you will explore instructional strategies that address the challenges inherent in meeting students' diverse needs. Strategies include building class community, linking level objectives and using both same-ability and different-ability groups for practice activities. Reproducible lesson plans and activity sheets provided. Registration Form. [Microsoft® Word]

Strategies for Sanity and Success in the Student-Centered Classroom, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

In this light-hearted look at our profession, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein will take you on a tour of the learner-centered classroom, identifying the challenges that naturally occur there, including the “speed spectrum,” the “dominator,” the “buy out,” and “territorial imperatives.” Learn strategies to cope with these and other issues. Reproducible, sanity-saving materials provided. Registration Form. [Microsoft® Word]

April 26, 2008: DL101: Implementing Distance Learning for Adult Education in Texas will be held from 9:00 a.m. to Noon, at University of Houston, Cougar Den. Presenter is John Stevenson. This training is intended for teachers who have prior approval of their Program Director or Coordinator to use Distance Education as part of their curriculum. If you are interested in attending, please request approval before registering with the Coastal Region GREAT Center. Distance education is now an option for adult education and family literacy programs in Texas. Teachers who wish to 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.This first session of the course is a mandatory face-to-face orientation. Important topics include:

  • Distance education policy in Texas
  • Characteristics and requirements of a distance education teacher
  • Approved distance learning curricula
  • Selection processes for student who will participate in distance education
  • Accessibility to materials and technology
  • The role the teachers plays in a distance education program,
  • Student assessment and reporting requirements
  • Components of a distance education plan
  • A course overview of DL 101
  • An orientation of the Community Zero website

Please use these numbers to register: CABEA 6800158, registration number 77531 and section number CY 422. Coastal Registration form. For more information, please email CoastalCF@lonestar.edu