Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section G-H
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
GED Exam: Language Arts and Social Studies
CABEA 6800096
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers
Description: This interactive PD session will provide teachers with activities and resources to enhance language arts and social studies instruction. The use of active learning techniques will be emphasized and practiced. The importance of language skills for all life-skills will be emphasized.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Describe the formats of the language arts reading, language arts writing, and social studies portions of the GED exam.
- Use and modify resources to improve active learning instructional strategies.
- Comprehend the importance of reading and analytical skills to all portions of the GED exam.
- Explain the basis for using real life experiences in their instruction.
- Develop a lesson that integrates math, science and language arts skills.
GED Exam: Math and Science
CABEA 6800097
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers
Description: This interactive session will provide teachers with activities and resources to enhance ABE/ASE math and science instruction. The use of active learning techniques will be emphasized and practiced.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Describe the formats of the math and science portions of the GED exam.
- Use and modify resources to improve active learning instructional strategies.
- Comprehend the importance reading and analytical skills have to all portions of the GED exam.
- Explain the basis for using real life experiences in their instruction.
- Develop a lesson that integrates math, science and language arts skills.
Guide for the ABE/ASE Reader - Part 1: Strategies & Techniques for Successful Reading Comprehension
CABEA 6800166
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers
Description: Participants will learn techniques and strategies for teaching effective comprehension skills for the GED learner. Story structure, graphic organizers, comprehension monitoring, and questioning will be taught through usage and activities. The participants will also have the opportunity to develop lesson plans based on the topics that are taught.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Use strategies to teach story structure (setting, main characters, problem, resolution).
- Use graphic organizers (semantic maps, K-W-L, sequence).
- Monitor comprehension (main ideas, “Quick Thoughts,” oral retell, question guides).
- Utilize questioning strategies (answering and generating).
Guide for the ABE/ASE Reader - Part 2: Strategies & Techniques for Building Fluency and Vocabulary Development Skills for the GED Reader
CABEA 6800254
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers
Description: In this training, participants will learn how teach their students to build and monitor fluency, how to teach students to recognize words in part and whole for meaning, and to make inferences as they read. Participants will learn how to use various types of assessments and create an individualized plans for their students. Participants will have an opportunity to use and apply each of the topics covered.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Teach vocabulary development: Word Parts, Synonyms, Antonyms, Semantic Mapping
- Perform Fluency Screenings: Running Records, Understanding Miscues, Building Fluency
- Explain Inference: Drawing from Details
- Use assessments to create individualized plans for students.
Guide for the ASE Reader - Part 3: Strategies & Techniques For Using Assessments to Monitor Comprehension and Plan an Effective Lesson for the ASE Reader
CABEA 6800169
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ASE Teachers
Description: This professional development session allows instructors to use a variety of reading inventories to continuously monitor and guide the learning needs of their students and to plan effective lessons that fit these individual needs. Participants will have the opportunity to practice administering these assessments.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Administer Reading Inventories
- Plan and Develop Learning Centers
- Apply these Strategies and Techniques to effectively plan lessons.
Health Literacy in the ESOL Classroom
CABEA 6800264
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: In this interactive health literacy training, participants will learn strategies to help adult learners develop basic health practices. The session will present activities that participants can use immediately in the classroom. Participants will have an opportunity to review steps to planning an effective lesson and examine a sample lesson plan. The teaching strategies used in this training are based on research by Kay Singleton. Statistical data was provided and compiled from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, The Health Literacy of America’s Adults.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Have an understanding of health literacy research and findings.
- Identify literacy related barriers and issues faced by those with limited access to health care.
- Administer a series of health literacy assessments to determine student comprehension.
- Help students become familiar with medical vocabulary, read medicine labels, and complete health care forms.
- Apply steps to developing an effective Health Literacy lesson.
How to Develop ESOL Receptive Skills
CABEA 6800121
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine how we comprehend what we hear or read, and how teachers can help their ESOL students to develop effective listening and reading skills.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Apply top-down and bottom-up approaches to reading and listening.
- Understand how to approach reading and listening texts.
- Help students to develop their comprehension skills.
How to Engage ESOL Students in Lessons
CABEA 6800119
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine why it is important for ESOL learners to be engaged in lessons, and what teachers can do to maximize their students’ motivation.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Examine the effectiveness of different lesson types.
- Understand the importance of student engagement.
- Plan active learning lessons.
- Apply their experience of a range of learner-centered activities
How to Enhance Your Lesson Plans for ESOL
CABEA 6800006
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: This training emphasizes the use of computer technology to enable more effective and efficient adult literacy instruction. Teachers will learn how to use resources, such as the Internet, texts, and textbook correlations, to write and enhance ESOL lesson plans. Each participant will be given a copy of a CD, containing 700 MB of lesson plans and other resources obtained from the Internet. The focus will be Texas Standardized Curriculum Framework
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Use computer search engines and links to locate instructional information.
- Practice the basics of accessing and reading PDF (Adobe Reader) files.
- Access files from the CD appropriate to their lessons.
- Complete a sample lesson from the CD.
- Write a brief lesson plan.
How to Improve Your Program Though TABE Scores
CABEA 6800297
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers, Aides and Administration.
Description: In this interactive and hands-on workshop, participants will explore methods to assist adult learners in making progress on the TABE test. Participants will learn how to use the Norms Book, what TABE remediation material is available and how to effectively use them and how to teach the differences in the TABE test and the GED test. Participants should complete TABE training before registering for this course.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Assess what is needed for a student to show progress on the TABE test.
- Apply an understanding of test accommodations available on the TABE test.
- Access appropriate instructional material in order to build TABE test scores.
- Expose adult learners to test taking strategies.
- Understand the differences between the TABE test and GED test.
How to Make Good Use of ESOL Textbooks
CABEA 6800117
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine the usefulness of ESOL textbooks, and will examine what teachers need to do to activate and supplement the material in such books.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Examine a selection of ESOL textbooks.
- Supplement the material in ESOL textbooks.
- Adapt textbook materials to make them more relevant and useful.
How to Manage the ESOL Classroom
CABEA 6800122
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine some common ESOL classroom management problems, and will suggest ways of avoiding or solving these.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Examine common classroom management problems.
- Avoid some specific classroom management problems.
- Apply an understanding of when and how to correct students’ language mistakes.
- Maximize Student Talking Time in class.
How to Plan a Successful ESOL Course
CABEA 6800116
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine how teachers can create ESOL courses which provide integrated skills practice and which incorporate useful review activities.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Identify the elements necessary for a successful ESOL course.
- Plan a cohesive series of lessons.
- Create and include in courses effective review activities.
How to Plan a Successful ESOL Lesson
CABEA 6800124
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine the different knowledge and skills involved in learning to use a second language. Attendees will participate in demonstrations of several TESOL practice activities and will learn how to plan a successful lesson.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Analyze the range of language items that ESOL students need to master
- Analyze the range of language skills that ESOL students need to develop.
- Use several types of language practice activities.
- Formulate appropriate lesson aims.
- Plan an effective EL lesson.
How to Plan an Effective Lesson
CABEA 6800260
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers, ESOL Teachers, Teachers Aides, EL Civics Teachers, Family Literacy Administrators
Description: The training is designed to help ABE/ASE/ESOL teachers focus on how to plan, develop and write effective lessons . Hands-on and interactive activities will be included. Participants will be allowed time to plan and develop a lesson plan that can be implemented in their classroom. Module 2 of 6: Adult Educator Academy.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Analyze and reflect on their current planning practice
- Write objectives to determine what learners will be able to do as a result of instruction
- Select and sequence components to include in lesson planning
- Implement the lesson plan format
- Use strategies for evaluation of the content taught
How to Provide Useful ESOL Oral Practice
CABEA 6800120
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine the role of oral practice in the ESOL classroom, and will examine how to choose, set up, monitor and provide feedback on ESOL practice activities.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Apply an understanding of a range of oral practice activities.
- Select and modify published oral practice activities.
- Create communicative oral practice activities.
- Set up, monitor and provide feedback on oral practice activities.
How to Teach Vocabulary to ESOL Learners
CABEA 6800118
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine what is involved in learning vocabulary items in a second language and how teachers can best facilitate vocabulary learning by their students.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Examine what learners need to know about new vocabulary items.
- Examine what practice students need with new vocabulary.
- Clarify the meaning of unknown items.
- Help students with pronouncing new items.
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