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Professional Development Course List
for Adult Education Instructors
Table of Contents

ABC’s of ESL Theories, Approaches, Methods, & Techniques

3 or 6 hours

Adult Basic Education: “Tools for Teaching”: A Structural Approach

3 or 6 hours

Adult Education Basics: Assessment of Activities

3 or 6 hours

Adult Education Basics: Developing Lesson Plans

3 or 6 hours

Adult Education Basics: Lesson Planning

3 or 6 hours

Adult Education – It’s More Than Content: Retention Strategies in the Adult Classroom

3 hours   

All About The Test of Adult Basic Education

3 or 6 hours

BEST Plus

6 hours

Cooperative Learning

6 hours

Credential Project Information Session

6 hours

EL Civics and ESL Teacher Institute I: What Works for Adult ESL Learners?

6 hours

EL Civics and ESL Teacher Institute II: More Learning and Less Teaching Skill Development for Adult ESL

6 hours

EL Civics & Technology

6 hours

EL-Civics Mini-Institute: More Strategies for the Civics-ESL Multilevel Classroom”

6 hours

Emotional Intelligence, Part 1

6-7 hours

Emotional Intelligence Part 2

6 hours

"Exploring Learning Disabilities: Why Is It So Difficult for Some Students to Learn?" Part 1

6 hours

Exploring Learning Disabilities: Why Is It So Difficult for Some Students to Learn?" Part 2

6 hours

Family Literacy Institute I: Curriculum Integration - Making Sense of All You Have for Families & Children

6 hours

Family Literacy Institute II: The Literacy Connection - What is Reading?

6 hours

Family Literacy Institute III:
The Power of Positivism

6 hours

Family Literacy Institute IV:
The Foundation of Learning and How it Applies to Family Literacy

6 hours

 

GED Math: “It’s All in How You Slice It !“

6 hours

 

GED: Science

3 hours

GED: Social Studies

3 hours

“Know Thyself!”: Teaching Styles vs. Learning Styles

3 or 6 hours

Master Teacher Institute

6 hours

Reading Institute I: “Let’s Go to the Grocery Store!!!”

6 hours

Reading Institute II: Tell Me a Story! Show Me a Story

6 hours

Reading Institute III: Lions and Tigers and Bats! Oh My!

6 hours

Recruitment & Retention

3 hours

Student Portfolio’s the “Why” and the “How”

6 hours

Student Recruitment & Retention

6 hours

TABE 9 & 10: How to Administer Test

5 hours

Taking Project-based Learning "On the Road"

6 hours

Teacher Research Project Initiative

Teaching and Activities for a Multi-Level Class

6 hours

Teaching Strategies for Math Word Problems

3 or 6 hours

TEAMS Training

6 hours

Technology Series: Microsoft® Excel Refresher Spreadsheet Software

4 hours

Technology Series: Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation Software

8 hours

Technology Series: WebCT

3 hours

Who is the Adult Learner?

3 or 6 hours