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
Trainer: 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
Upon attendance at this PD training, the participants will:
Outcomes: Upon attendance at this PD 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.
Developing Data and Graph Literacy
CABEA 6800142
3hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Denise Johnson, Susan Kautz
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
Diversity Training for Educators
CABEA 6800143
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Trainer: Dr. Glenda Smith
Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Staff
Description: This course is for anyone interested in examining the importance of understanding and appreciating diversity in order to create a cooperative, productive learning environment. No prior diversity training required. In this class, participants will explore the origins of their own values and stereotypes in relation to diversity. Activities using music, poetry, film, discussion, and art will provide educators with student perspectives and will emphasize the importance of understanding diversity in order to maximize the learning environment and promote cooperation among students. The training will involve significant discussion and hands-on-learning rather than lecture. It is recommended that this course be presented in two 2.5 hour sessions
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this training, the participants will:
- Gain awareness of how cultural differences can profoundly impact learning.
- Examine their own biases and focus on how they perceive differences.
- Recognize how stereotypes are developed, barriers created, and misunderstandings magnified.
- Identify diversity issues they wish to address in their classrooms.
- Discover resources and activities to use with students to enhance understanding of diversity in their classes
DL101: Implementing Distance Learning for Adult Education in Texas
CABEA 6800158
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: 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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