Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section O-R
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
Participatory Approach in ABE/ASE Classrooms
CABEA 6800309
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers
Description: Research on adult learning theory has shown that a participatory approach is highly effective in motivating students and enhancing learning. The challenge, however, to the ABE/ASE teacher is the “how to” incorporate this into the classroom. This workshop will review the research behind the approach and discuss the process of implementing and monitoring learning in the classroom. Hands-on activities that can be used with students will be practiced in the context of the workshop. Participants will be actively contributing to the learning through these hands-on activities.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Demonstrate awareness of the advantages of utilizing a
participatory approach in the ABE/ASE classroom. - Develop a sample student portfolio.
- Demonstrate participatory learning strategies that can be used in the ABE/ASE classroom
Pathway to Success Strand: Developing a Culture for Transitions, Module 1: Student Orientation & Goal Setting
CABEA 6800295
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE teachers, ESOL Teachers, Teacher Aides, Program Administrators and Staff
Description: This training will provide practitioners an opportunity to work with manipulatives to identify the benefits of goal setting and creating a culture for student transitions within adult education through post secondary. With an emphasis on best practices in goal setting, participants receive resources to barriers, set SMART goals, and integrate goal setting in the classroom environment. This session is a module of the Pathway to Success Strand, prerequisite not required.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Define levels of transition
- Identify the impact of goal setting on transitions
- Identify barriers and solutions to goal setting
- Establish guidelines for setting student goals
- Utilize supplemental resources to develop SMART goals
- Devise a plan to integrate goal setting in your lesson plans
Pathway to Success Strand: Developing a Culture for Transitions, Module 2: Persistence
CABEA 6800313
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE teachers, ESOL Teachers, Teacher Aides, Program Administrators and Staff
Description: Participants will consider the relationship between student persistence and performance. In this hands-on session that includes simulations and role-play, practitioners will explore potential conflicts between program retention and student persistence, strategies to better support stop-out and drop-out students, and program models that support research based best practices. This is the second of 2 modules from the Pathways to Success: Developing a Culture of Transitions Strand. See also Module 1 - Orientation and Goal Setting.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Support adult learners to achieve higher levels of persistence.
- Recognize patterns of persistence that lead to student success.
- Utilize research to implement strategies in the classroom.
- Understand how student pathways can help to predict student outcomes.
- Employ the six drivers of persistence to minimize common inhibitors to student success
Phonics for the Adult ESOL Learner
CABEA 6800063
4 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Audience: ESOL Teachers
Description: This 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.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- 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
Reading Inventories for Adult Readers
CABEA 6800149
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Audience: ABE/ASE Teachers
Description: In this training session participants will learn how to administer diagnostic reading inventories, fluency screenings, reading profiles, sight word identification, and comprehension checks. Participants will learn the purpose of the assessment results, and how they can use them to design instruction to fit their learners’ individual needs. Participants will have an opportunity to administer each of the assessments and analyze the results.
Objectives: Upon completion, course participants will (be able to):
- Identify independent, instructional, and frustration levels with reading inventories
- Use fluency screenings to understand miscues
- Learn about your adult reader by using reading profiles
- Apply sign word identification and graded word lists
- Relate comprehension checks through oral retell and question guides
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