Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section C-D
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
Civil Rights
CABEA number: 6800293
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers, ESOL Teachers, Teachers Aides, Administrators, Administrative Staff
Description: This highly interactive workshop will provide participants with information regarding organizational policies and federal laws related to employment discrimination, sexual harassment and civil rights. This seminar will cover many aspects of employee rights, including but not limited to: the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, diversity in hiring, and handling unfair labor practices, This session utilizes group discussion, real-life scenarios, and videos to illustrate the key concepts.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Achieve a greater awareness of the organization’s expectations and its policies on civil rights.
- Understand how to proactively respond to situations involving violations of employee civil rights.
- Use strategies to make better decisions involving employee rights.
- Appreciate the importance of ensuring a safe, productive, and harassment-free work environment for all employees.
Cross Cultural Strand, Module 1: Cross-Cultural Communication Enhancement
CABEA 6800153
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers, ESOL Teachers, Teachers Aides, Administrators, Administrative 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. This session is a module of the Cross Cultural Strand, prerequisite not required.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Have 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 Strand, Module 2: Cross-Cultural Communication Enhancement
CABEA 6800253
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers, ESOL Teachers, Teachers Aides, Administrators, Administrative Staff
Description: This training is a continuation of Module 1, Cross Cultural Communication Enhancement which is a prerequisite of this course. This session is a module of the Cross Cultural Strand, prerequisite is required.
Objectives: Upon completion, course 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.
Cross Cultural Strand, Module 3: BaFa BaFa - An Experiential Simulation Cross-Cultural Communication Activity
CABEA 6800167
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers, ESOL Teachers, Teachers Aides, Administrators, Administrative Staff
Description: 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. This session is a module of the Cross Cultural Strand, prerequisite not required.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Build awareness of how cultural differences can profoundly impact people in an organization.
- Motivate participants to rethink their behavior and attitude toward others.
- Allow participants to examine their own bias and focus on how they perceive differences.
- Examine how stereotypes are developed, barriers created, and misunderstandings magnified.
- Provide Hands On Learning Activities
Developing ESOL Students’ Listening and Speaking Skills
CABEA 6800095
3 hours/2.5 Credential
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: This interactive PD session will provide teachers with skills and activities for developing listening and speaking skills of the ESOL learners. There will be an emphasis on understanding oral communication and how teachers can integrate these skills into instruction.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Define schema theory and describe its implications in creating listening lessons.
- Define top-down and bottom-up processing and the role each plays in understanding language.
- Create a listening lesson with pre-listening, listening, and follow-up activities.
- Identify the features of a good fluency activity.
- Explain intelligibility and the factors that can affect intelligibility for adult learners.
Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Adult Learners
CABEA 6800276
6 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers, ESOL Teachers,Teachers Aides, Administrators, and Administrative 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. Module 4 of 6: Adult Educator Academy.
Objectives: Upon completion, 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
24 hours
Audience: All Teachers
Description: Teachers who wish to use Distance Learning as an option 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. Topics include: Distance education policy in Texas, characteristics/requirements of a distance education teacher, approved distance learning curricula, student selection processes for participation in distance education, accessibility to materials and technology, teacher roles in a distance education program, student assessment and reporting requirements, components of a distance education plan, a course overview of DL 101, and an orientation of the Community Zero website.
Objectives: Upon completion, 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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