Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section G-H
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
GED: Language Arts and Social Studies
CABEA 6800096
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Cynthia McConnell
Audience: GED Teachers
Description: This interactive v session will provide teachers with activities and resources to enhance GED 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.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this 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 curriculum
- Explain the basis for using real life experiences in their instruction.
- Develop a lesson that integrates math, science and language arts skills.
GED: Math and Science
CABEA 6800097
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Cynthia McConnell
Audience: GED Teachers
Description: This interactive PD session will provide teachers with activities and resources to enhance GED math and science instruction. The use of active learning techniques will be emphasized and practiced.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Describe the formats of the math and science portions of the GED test.
- Use and modify resources to improve active learning instructional strategies.
- Comprehend the importance reading and analytical skills have to all portions of the GED curriculum
- Explain the basis for using real life experiences in their instruction.
- Develop a lesson that integrates math, science and language arts skills.
GED Mathematics
CABEA 6800034
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Cynthia McConnell , Doris Larry
Audience: GED Teachers
Description: The training includes an overview of the structure of the GED Mathematics test, the concepts and content of the test items, strategies for preparing students for the test, and techniques for making lessons relevant, practical, productive, and interactive. The sample lessons will focus of hands-on participation and several lessons involve group activities.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Describe the structure and four major content areas of the GED math test.
- Analyze several types of test problems, with an emphasis on the different levels of thinking skills required.
- Practice many interactive and relevant activities and lessons that will motivate the GED student.
Geometry and Measurement
CABEA 6800159
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Denise Johnson
Audience: ESL/GED Teachers
Description: 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).
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Use a broader range of Instructional Strategies
- Incorporate Real-World materials in instruction
- Analyze Pythagorean Theorem
- Solve problems involving Area, Perimeter and Volume
- Provide tools and games for use in GED Math Instruction
- Actively engage students
- Provide large and small group instruction
- Provide hands-on learning activities
Getting and Keeping a Job
CABEA 6800070
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 to develop lessons that emphasize ways to analyze compatibility of personal skills to job descriptions, write resumes, and fill out applications.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Analyze different self-evaluation inventories
- Determine ways to determine job compatibility
- Evaluate good vs. poor resumes
- List basic criteria for writing resumes and filling out job applications
- Discuss the importance of work ethic and interpersonal skills
- Develop lessons incorporating job skills into the curriculum
Grammar Review for Adult Ed Teachers
CABEA 6800087
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Lauri Cherian
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: This Professional Development training is a basic grammar refresher for teachers, providing definitions for major parts of speech and identification of sentence structure. It is an interactive presentation and will provide teachers with practical activities to use in the adult education classroom.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Define the basic parts of speech.
- Identify the basic parts of speech in a sentence.
- Categorize parts of speech and sentence structure using poetry and song lyrics.
- Develop interactive pair and whole group grammar lessons applicable to multilevel classes.
Grammar for BEST Plus Test Administrator
CABEA 6800140
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Judy Bowman
Audience: BEST Plus Test Administrators
Description: This training is for BEST Plus test administrators, or those who plan to be trained as test administrators, who want assistance, review, and practice with grammar, especially as it applies to scoring the Language Complexity aspect of the BEST Plus oral interview. No previous knowledge of grammar terminology or structures is required. Participants will be better equipped to score the Language Complexity section of the BEST Plus oral interview after successfully completing this training.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Evaluate the rubric and identify terms that needs to be clarified.
- Discover the two parts of a sentence by studying sample sentences; find and mark subjects and verbs in sample.
- Work from a definition of phrase to locate and mark prepositional phrases in sample sentences.
- Work with sample sentences to determine how to “connect” them (after marking subjects and verbs).
- List connectors which mark “emerging complexity”; practice finding and marking “flag” words for emerging complexity.
- Determine a definition of clause from examples: independent and dependent clauses.
- Analyze language samples by marking subjects, verbs, prepositional phrases, and connectors; discuss differences using the rubric to justify answers.
- Analyze and score samples from the Test Administrator Guide
- Score the Language Complexity section of the BEST Plus oral interview accurately
How to Develop ESL Receptive Skills
CABEA 6800121
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine how we comprehend what we hear or read, and how teachers can help their ESL students to develop effective listening and reading skills.
Outcomes:Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Participants will learn about top-down and bottom-up approaches to reading and listening.
- Participants will gain experience with ways to approach reading and listening texts.
- Participants will learn how to help students to develop their comprehension skills.
How to Engage ESL Students in Lessons
CABEA 6800119
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine why it is important for ESL learners to be engaged in lessons, and what teachers can do to maximize their students’ motivation.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Participants will examine the effectiveness of different lesson types.
- Participants will understand the importance of student engagement.
- Participants will learn how to plan Active Learning lessons.
- Participants will gain experience of a range of learner-centered activities
How to Enhance Your Lesson Plans for ESL
CABEA 6800006
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL 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 ESL 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
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this 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 Make Good Use of ESL Textbooks
CABEA 6800117
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine the usefulness of ESL textbooks, and will examine what teachers need to do to activate and supplement the material in such books.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Examine a selection of ESL textbooks.
- Supplement the material in ESL textbooks.
- Adapt textbook materials to make them more relevant and useful.
How to Manage the ESL Classroom
CABEA 6800122
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine some common ESL classroom management problems, and will suggest ways of avoiding or solving these.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Examine common classroom management problems.
- Learn ways to avoid some specific classroom management problems.
- Learn when and how to correct students’ language mistakes.
- Learn how to maximize Student Talking Time in class.
How to Plan a Successful ESLCourse
CABEA 6800116
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine how teachers can create ESL courses which provide integrated skills practice and which incorporate useful review activities.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Identify the elements necessary for a successful ESL course.
- Plan a cohesive series of lessons.
- Create and include in courses effective review activities.
How to Plan a Successful ESL Lesson
CABEA 6800124
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL 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.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Analyze the range of language items that ESL students need to master
- Analyze the range of language skills that ESL students need to develop.
- Use several types of language practice activities.
- Formulate appropriate lesson aims.
- Plan an effective EL lesson.
How to Provide Useful ESL Oral Practice
CABEA 6800120
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: The workshop will examine the role of oral practice in the ESL classroom, and will examine how to choose, set up, monitor and provide feedback on ESL practice activities.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will:
- Become familiar with a range of oral practice activities.
- Be able to select and modify published oral practice activities.
- Be able to create communicative oral practice activities.
- Be able to set up, monitor and provide feedback on oral practice activities.
How to Teach Vocabulary to ESL Learners
CABEA 6800118
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL 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.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this 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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