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IN THIS ISSUE:
Events + Announcements: ProLiteracy Distance Education Strategies and Solutions Webinar TODAY - Distance Education Strategy Session #19 - NELRC:
Engaging Learners in Synchronous Remote Instruction
What We're Reading: The Well:
Reconnecting and Intersecting within Adult Education
In Case You Missed It: Digital Promise’s Adult Learner Variability Navigator - Survey on Transition to Online Learning in for-Credit Career-Technical, Workforce, or Professional-Technical Programs - Teaching Online with The Change Agent
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Distance Education Strategies & Solutions:
Creating a Digital Literacy Action Plan |
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Join us TODAY at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern where Rachel Riggs, ESL Instructional Specialist, Frederick Community College, will share her Digital Literacy Action Plan (DLAP). Rachel will describe the challenge of supporting learner agency in digital literacy and describe how the DLAP helped her overcome those challenges.
This webinar is one of a series of webinars from ProLiteracy and the EdTech Center at World Education. |
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Distance Education Strategy Sessions:
Building Open Learning Resource Repositories |
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Join us next Friday, December 11th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for our 19th Distance Education Strategy Session. Learn how one region in South Carolina has worked to develop effective practices building learning resource libraries at scale. First, Mary Gaston, Technical Assistance Specialist for SCAE, will share how her team worked to rapidly find, create, and share online learning content in the wake of COVID-19 school closures for their region, and over time has developed a coordinated process for making these resources readily available to educators across the state. Then, Kathy Woodson (SC Adult Ed Training Specialist), Kathy LaBegue (Greenville Lifelong Learning Instructor), Anita Wilson (TAN 1 Curriculum Specialist), and Mickey Cox (Oconee Adult Ed Instructor), will share how they have been able to take these reusable learning resources and implement them into their instruction. You will leave with lots of ideas for how collaboration can help you and your colleagues effectively coordinate the curation, creation, and sharing of content to meet the needs of your learners.
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NELRC:
Engaging Learners in Synchronous Remote Instruction |
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Join NELRC next Thursday, December 10, 2:00-3:00 EST where Rachel Riggs will share how she sets up her virtual classroom for better engagement, adapts “classic” ESL activities to the remote setting, and uses new activities/strategies that engage learners during synchronous remote instruction. She’ll also share some of the tools she’s used to make her presentations and activities more engaging. |
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The Well:
Reconnecting and Intersecting within Adult Education |
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As adult educators, we can never predict where our paths will intertwine with learners’ paths over time.
In August,
Boston Globe correspondent Adam Sennott highlighted seven single mothers who graduated college through the Jeremiah Program, a nonprofit that offers opportunities and tools for young mothers’ successful transition to higher education. Adam Sennott himself is a graduate of a program to prepare adult learners to transition to college, and was a speaker at the annual NCTN conference. Adam’s piece reminds us of the ways in which we keep returning to this powerful community of adult learners and educators.
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Digital Promise’s Adult Learner Variability Navigator |
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Digital Promise has recently published a new interactive tool on their website. The Adult Learner Variability Navigator is an excellent way to explore instructional strategies. Use the navigator to explore different factors that impact adult learners—inducing literacy, cognition, social-emotional learning, and learner background—then see the research-based strategies that apply. |
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Online Learning Survey:
CTE, Workforce Ed, Professional-Technical Programs |
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World Education is collaborating with the Urban Institute to understand how colleges have managed the transition to online learning in their for-credit career-technical, workforce, or professional-technical programs. If you’re at a college that offers CTE, WF, or prof-tech programs for credit, we’d like your input! Please take 5-10 minutes to fill out a short survey. This project is funded by ECMC Foundation.
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Teaching Online with
The Change Agent |
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To help guide your transition to online teaching,
The Change Agent has compiled this video library with short tutorials on other ways to use the magazine to teach remotely. These 7- to 15-minute video clips help you teach standards-based skills, such as finding the main idea and teaching mechanics in writing. Get started with this video of a teacher sharing strategies and other distance learning tips to keep learners engaged and motivated! |
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