Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section M-N
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
Managing Your Time
CABEA 6800072
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Doris Larry
Audience: Staff, Teachers, Administrators
Description: This session will provide adult education teachers with the ability to develop time management skills that focus on getting results rather than just being busy.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this training, the participants will be able to:
- Explain the 80/20 Pareto Principle.
- Differentiate among various personality types.
- Develop skills for keeping time logs.
- Utilize weekly schedules and planners.
- List timely tips to increase efficiency
More From Students, Less From Teachers
CABEA 6800040
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description:In this session teachers will experience hands-on, interactive tasks designed to actively engage students in the learning process. The strategies presented will increase students’ interest in and retention of material learned. Originally developed for ESL teachers, this training offers strategies that can be adapted for ESL, ABE and GED students. Handouts will be given.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course an instructor can:
- Identify characteristics of their own teaching styles.
- Adapt and implement interactive learning methods with students.
- Equip students to assume more responsibility for their own learning.
Number Operations and Sense
CABEA 6800144
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainers: Denise Johnson, Liliana Black, Cynthia McConnell
Audience: GED Teachers
Description: Number Operations and Sense is designed to provide teachers with creative teaching techniques of basic math terminology and the ability to solve math expressions or equations, either in isolation or as a step in a complex, multi-step problem. Teachers will be refreshed in the following subjected areas: (1) Demonstrating numeric understanding, (2) Performing math operations, (3) Analyzing and applying percentages, ratios, proportions, and (4) Estimate to solve problems and assess possible solutions.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course a participant can:
- Broaden instructional strategies.
- Incorporate real-world materials.
- Recognize and understand math misconceptions of today’s GED student as it relates to number operations and sense in mathematical concepts, mathematical rules, and mathematical principles.
- Provide tools and games for GED math teachers that actively engage students and provide large and small group instruction and hands on learning activities
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