Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section O-R
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
Phonics for the Adult ESL Learner
CABEA 6800063
4 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: This PD training provides participants with the skills to help non-native speakers of English improve English pronunciation and to help all adult learners improve their ability to read by using phonics.
Outcomes: Upon attendance at this workshop, the teachers will:
- Practice vocalization of all vowel and consonant sounds
- Demonstrate digraphs, blends, and diphthongs sounds
- List key words for students to help remember sounds
- Illustrate phonograms or word patterns
- Define syllabication
- Outline prefixes and suffixes
- Differentiate sounds of –ed and –s word-endings
Professional Development Planning Workshop
CABEA 6800027
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Trainer: Brenda Dunlap
Audience: Teachers of Record in TEAMS
Description: This 6-hour workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the Texas Adult Education Credential.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course an instructor can:
- Understand the objectives of the Texas Adult Education Credential Project.
- Design a professional development plan to best meet their individual needs.
- Use resources from TCALL
- Participate in a book club or study group with colleagues to read three books distributed at the workshop on adult learning theory.
Read All about It! Newspapers in the Classroom
CABEA 6800031
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainers: Margaret Flint and Doris Larry
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: Training provides participants with creative methodology for use of newspapers in the ESL classroom. Participants will develop a story bank and a picture bank. They will leave with a lesson format and a completed activity with the newspapers for use in the classroom.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, an instructor can:
- Identify a variety of newspaper resources available.
- Employ methods to use the newspaper creatively.
- Develop story banks and picture banks.
- Identify possible extension activities from using newspapers.
- Prepare a lesson using the newspaper.
Reading Inventories for Adult Readers
CABEA 6800149
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Trainer: Mandy Seybold
Audience: Teachers of ABE, GED
Description: This course is designed for instructors of Adult Basic Education. The participants will learn how to administer diagnostic reading inventories, fluency screenings, reading profiles, sight word identification, and comprehension checks. The course goal is to allow the instructors the opportunity to administer each of the assessments, and understand their results. The participants will learn the purpose of the assessment results, and how they can use them to design instruction to fit their learners’ individual needs.
Objectives: Upon completion of this PD training, participants will be able to:
- Reading Inventories: Identifying Independent, Instructional, and Frustrational levels
- Fluency Screenings: Understanding Miscues
- Reading Profiles: Learning about your adult reader
- Sight Word Identification: Graded Word List
- Comprehension Checks: Oral Retell and Question Guides
Readers Theater
CABEA 6800084
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Tina Washco
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: This professional development session introduces teachers to Readers Theater as an interactive tool that can be used in the ABE/GED/ASE classroom to explore a diverse range of topics, i.e., cultural topics, historical events and contexts, social conflicts, news, and contemporary issues and in the ESL classroom to improve reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Identify topics and materials suitable for Readers Theater performance for ABE/GED/ASE and ESL adult learners;
- Script materials for Readers Theater to strengthen content areas for ABE/GED students and to support English language development for ESL students and present a Readers Theater performance;
- Write a script for a Readers Theater performance; and
- Use these techniques with students to perform Readers Teacher in the classroom
Reflective Practice and the Credential
CABEA 6800136
4 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainers: Brenda Dunlap, Michelle Janysek, Mary Helen Martinez
Audience: Teachers who have attended a PDPW
Description: The purpose of the professional development is to introduce teachers pursuing the Credential to the Scoring Rubric and the reflective writing process. The training will consist of a detailed overview of the Credential Reflection Scoring Rubric requirements and guidance on how to write reflections that meet the performance requirements of the rubric. Participants must have previously attended a PDPW and should come to the training prepared to write about a recent PD experience.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the Credential Reflection Scoring Rubric requirements.
- Participants will learn strategies for writing to meet the requirements and performance standards required by the Credential Reflection Scoring Rubric.
- Participants will be exposed to and gain experience with the practice of reflective writing as they begin to prepare a reflection for submission in CredITS.
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