Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Section S-T
(Courses are arranged alphabetically)
Strategies for Teaching Adult Learners
CABEA 6800086
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: This professional development session is the first in a series for adult education teachers. It introduces teachers new to adult education and also teachers new to teaching to basic principles of adult learning and situations unique to the Adult Education classroom. The teachers will be encouraged to use this session as the springboard to attend more detailed professional development strands.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- State principle differences between the adult as learner and the child as learner.
- Cite examples of issues unique to the adult education classroom.
- Describe a typical Adult Education classroom.
- Identify several methods of instructional delivery.
Strategies & Techniques for Successful Reading Comprehension: A Guide for the GED Reader
CABEA 6800162
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainers: Mandy Seybold & Stacy Shultz
Description: Participants will learn techniques and strategies to teaching effective comprehension skills for the GED learner. Story structure, graphic organizers, comprehension monitoring, and questioning will be taught through usage and activities. The participants will also have the opportunity to develop lesson plans based on the topics that are taught.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to teach the following strategies and skills to their GED readers for the purpose of building a better reader:
- Story Structure: setting, main characters, problem, resolution
- Graphic Organizers: semantic maps, K-W-L, sequence
- Comprehension Monitoring: main ideas, “Quick Thoughts”, oral retell, question guides
- Questioning: answering and generating
Teaching the Adult Learner
CABEA 6800093
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Jeff Mohamed
Audience: ESL Teachers
Description: This interactive session will provide teachers with opportunities to enhance their knowledge of the characteristics of the adult learner, learning styles and their implication for teaching, and active learning techniques.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Describe the characteristics of the adult learner.
- Categorize different learning styles.
- Correlate learning styles to teaching styles.
- Differentiate between active and passive learning techniques.
- Practice active learning techniques.
Teaching to Different Learning Styles
CABEA 6100013
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Pamela Lowe
Audience: ESL/GED Teachers
Description: This training provides participants with inventories for determining learning styles and teaching styles and the mechanics to integrate them. Classroom strategies, including adaptations, for teaching and assessing according to the different learning styles of students are provided. Participants will know about and be able to demonstrate strategies that address learning styles and learning difficulties of adult students.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Equip participants with a working knowledge of a learning style inventory, teaching style inventory and how to integrate the two styles.
- Provide hand-on activities, supplemental materials and classroom strategies to meet students diversified learning styles, including adaptations for students with learning difficulties.
TEAMS Training
CABEA 800071
6 hours/5 Credential Points
Trainer: Kay Brooks, Brenda Forrest
Audience: TEAMS Data Entry Staff, Administrators
Description: This Professional Development session provides basic TEAMS training to familiarize users with the procedure for accessing the Texas Educating Adults Management System, entering and editing data, and printing reports for the analysis of data.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this training, the participants will learn to:
- Log on to the system.
- Navigate through the system.
- Enter data into the system.
- Add and edit information
- Access and interpret commonly used tables
TEAMS Training for Administrators
CABEA 6800125
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Kay Brooks and Brenda Forrest
Audience: Administrators
Description: This Professional Development session is intended for administrators and experienced data entry staff who are current TEAM users. The focus is on accessing, understanding, and applying information collected and processed through the Texas Educating Adults Management System (TEAMS) for program improvement.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Access, sort and utilize records, tables and reports.
- Understand functions available for comprehensive program analysis.
- Analyze data and reports for review with supervisors and/or teachers.
- Update staff on new or upcoming enhancements to TEAMS.
- Update staff on new or upcoming enhancements to TEAMS.
Test of Adult Basic Education Training (TABE) 9/10 Certification
CABEA 6800036
3 hours/2.5 Credential Points
Trainer: Bill Medina, Karen Couey, Cynthia McConnell
Audience: TABE Administrators
Description: This training will provide the CTB/McGraw-Hill certification requirements on the best practices of administering, scoring, and interpreting the TABE 9/10. Each participant will receive a copy of the official TABE 9/10 training workbook.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Plan and administer the TABE.
- Score and Interpret TABE (both hand and machine scoring).
- Make appropriate accommodations for TABE.
- Administer the Electronic TABE - P/C and Online.
