Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section C-D
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
Communication in the Workplace
CABEA 6800069
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainers: Doris Larry, Margaret Flint
Audience: ESL/GED Teachers
Description: This PD 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.
Outcomes: Upon attendance at this training, the participants will:
- List ways to improve interoffice and business correspondence
- Practice making requests, asking questions, and giving instructions
- Apply ways to improve verbal skills when communicating on the phone
- Compare the effectiveness of clear vs. unclear means of verbal and written communication
- Experience ways to deal with internal and external customers
- Develop workplace communication skills lessons for the classroom
Courage to Teach Book Group
CABEA 6800102
20 hours/10 Credential Points
Trainer: Glenda Smith
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Description: This Professional Development course involves the reading and discussion of Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach. The participants will read and prepare discussion notes for two chapters each week from questions provided by the instructor. Additional assignments will include journaling and writing reflections on readings.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Correlate identity and integrity in teaching.
- Describe the paradoxes in teaching and learning.
- Assess the concept of teaching from a heart of hope.
- Discuss teaching in community as subject-centered education.
- Recognize a teacher’s selfhood as a legitimate topic in education and in public dialogues on educational reform.
Cross-Cultural Communication Enhancement – Part 1
CABEA 6800153
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Karen Couey
Audience: ABE/ASE/ESL Teachers and Teachers Aides, Program Administrators and Staff
Description: In this training, participants are introduced to the key concepts of cross-cultural communication so they can more effectively interact with students from different cultural backgrounds. Participants will explore the differences in communication styles, explore cultural assumptions, and identify how to deal with cultural misunderstandings. Simulations and group discussions will illustrate the key concepts.
Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, participant will be able to:
- Greater awareness of different communication styles, with an emphasis on educational settings.
- Understand how cultural assumptions impact communication.
- Use strategies to avoid cultural misunderstandings.
- Implement strategies for dealing with misunderstandings when/if they occur.
Cross-Cultural Communication Enhancement – Part 2
CABEA 6800253
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Karen Couey
Audience: ABE/ASE/ESL Teachers and Teachers Aides, Program Administrators and Staff
Description: This training is a continuation of Cross Cultural Communication Enhancement Part 1 which is a prerequisite to this course. In this course, participants have opportunities to practice communication skills that include active listening and conflict resolution. Participants will receive a copy of "Making It Work," a workbook on conflict and communication for adult literacy learners. It will be included in the training and can be used in the ABE or ESL classroom.
Outcomes: Upon completion of this training session, participants will be able to
- Practice greater awareness of different communication styles, with an emphasis on educational settings.
- Understand how cultural assumptions impact communication.
- Use strategies to avoid cultural misunderstandings.
- Implement strategies for dealing with misunderstandings when/if they occur.
Dealing with Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
CABEA 6800172
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Liliana Black
Audience: ESL/EL Civics Teachers
Description: This workshop will help instructors understand relationships in culturally different classrooms. Participants will practice various methods for understanding relationships and differences. This session is geared toward ESL teachers at all levels; however, ABE/ASE teachers may find it useful as well.
Outcomes: Upon completion of this training session, participants will be able to:
- Deal with cultural conflict, stereotyping, and racism in the classroom
- Form teams and help them to become effective
- Use peer ratings to adjust team behavior
Developing Data and Graph Literacy
CABEA 6800142
3hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainers: Denise Johnson, Liliana Black, Cynthia McConnell
Audience: GED/ESL Teachers
Description: Developing Data and Graph Literacy is designed to provide teachers with basic but creative teaching techniques to assist ABE/GED students with the capacity to interpret and use data, present in a different format, solve problems, or make predictions. Teachers will be refreshed in the following subject areas: (1) understanding statistical concepts; (2) constructing, interpreting, and comparing tables, charts, and graphs of statistical data; and (3) comparing and contrasting data sets and making predictions based on probabilities.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Use broader instructional strategies.
- Incorporate real-world materials.
- Recognize and understand math misconceptions of today’s GED student
- Mathematical concepts
- Mathematical rules
- Mathematical principle
- Implement tools and games for GED math teachers
Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Adult Learners
CABEA 6800276
6 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Tiffany Bob
Audience: ABE/ASE/ESOL Teachers, Teachers Aides, Program Administrators and Staff
Description: In this hands-on and interactive training session, the participants will gain knowledge of critical information and strategies for teaching, assessing, and monitoring adult education students with a variety of learning needs.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Understand assessment strategies that require minimal time for preparation and analysis,
- Address specifically struggling students' needs while implementing differentiated strategies in the classroom,
- Utilize simple, time-saving techniques to develop differentiated activities to better address students' readiness levels, interests, and learning preferences,
- Boost student motivation with engaging new formats, organizers, and templates to offer choice in learning activities, and
- Strengthen their instruction with ideas, strategies, and teaching tools to support multi-level classes in the critical areas of management, community building, literacy, and math.
DL101: Implementing Distance Learning for Adult Education in Texas
CABEA 6800158
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainers: Angela Johnson, Renata Russo
Audience: All Adult Education Teachers who to use DL in the classroom
Description: 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.
The first session of this course is a 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
Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Report on the essential elements of state policy for distance education
- Describe the major components of DL 101
- Navigate the Community Zero site and perform the tasks required for participation (upload and download document, post a reply to a discussion, etc.)
- Describe course expectations in terms of time and participation
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