Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section I-L
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
I’m in the house . . . Now what?
CABEA 6800146
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer:
Audience: Home Visitors, Parent Educators, Early Childhood Teachers, ILA Coordinators, and Program Directors
Description: Once a Home Visit is scheduled, what strategies can you implement to make the visit educational, practical, and fun? Many Parent Educators and Home Visit teams are often not ready to teach due to distractions, parents’ resistance, and limited engagement during the planned activities. This training will provide you with tools to develop individualized and research based literacy activities parents will find practical and fun.
Objectives: Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Develop Individualized Home Visits per family
- Develop Read Aloud Lesson for Parent Educator, Early Childhood Teacher, ILA Coordinators, and Home Visitors
- Recognize home based literacy activities opportunities
- Develop a Home Survey Tool
- Utilize collaborative methods to plan research based Home literacy lessons
Implementing Texas Content Standards
CABEA 6800139
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Trainers: Cynthia McConnell, Sandi Schneider, Alma Ayala, Christine Spin, Doris Larry
Audience: All teachers
Description: This training course is for anyone interested in learning more about the Texas Adult Education Content Standards and Benchmarks (TAESB). The main objectives of the training are to familiarize the audience with the TAESB and to develop lesson plans using the standards and benchmarks. Audience members do not need to have previous knowledge of the TAESB, however, they do need to familiar with adult education programs and practices in Texas. Target audience members would include full-time and part-time adult education teachers (ABE, GED, ESL), and adult education program administrators.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Explain the history and the development of the Texas Adult Education Content Standards and Benchmarks (TAESB)
- Understand how to integrate the TAESB in classroom instruction.
- Develop lesson plans using the TAESB.
Introduction to Literacy and Numeracy
CABEA 6800065
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Doris Larry
Audience: ESL/GED Teachers
Description: This training will provide adult educators with an awareness and understanding of the relationship between reading and writing and numeracy. The participants will be provided with instructional materials and hands-on activities to use with their students.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Describe the importance of reading, writing and numeracy as interrelated and not isolated skills.
- List reasons for including numeracy in an adult literacy curriculum.
- Create an awareness of the use of numbers in everyday activities.
- Differentiate among the linear, functional, holistic, and spiraling techniques to teach numeracy
- Practice various activities to use in the adult education class
- Learn techniques to make numeracy relevant and concrete.
- Provide the students with a broad range of activities to develop numeracy skills.
The LEA and Picture Stories
CABEA 6800030
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: The Language Experience Approach and pictures stories can be used as a springboard to teach listening, speaking, reading, writing, pronunciation, grammar, sequencing, sorting, role-playing, and many other literacy skills. Workshop participants will learn how the combination of these two techniques can be used to teach and discuss relevant topics, such as health issues.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Use picture stories and the LEA as effective teaching tools
- Understand and practice the use of these methods
- Develop their own instructional activities and materials
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