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
Money Smart Curriculum (FDIC)
CABEA 6800267
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Doris Larry, Audrey Nelson-Ricks
Audience: ABE/ASE, ESL, and EL Civics Teachers
Description: Financial education fosters financial stability for individuals, families, and entire communities. The more people know about credit and banking services, the more likely they are to increase savings, buy homes, and improve their financial health and well being. The Money Smart curriculum helps individuals build financial knowledge, develop financial confidence, and use banking services effectively. Money Smart was created by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) because it recognizes the importance of financial education, particularly for people with little or no banking experience. Money Smart is a training program to help adults outside the financial mainstream enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Understand available banking services and how to build a positive relationship with a financial institution.
- Explain how credit works and determine if they are ready to apply for credit.
- Use a checking account responsibly.
- Manage money by preparing a personal spending plan and identifying ways to decrease spending and increase income.
- Identify ways to save money and savings options to save toward their goals.
- Protect their finances and identity.
- Read a credit report and how to build and repair their credit history.
- Describe the purpose of credit cards and how to responsibly use them.
- Decipher information on installment loans, including car loans and home equity loans.
- Process information on the steps involved in buying a house.
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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