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How can we support volunteers who are helping out in community center and library computer labs? Learn about a solution called the Digital Homeroom that helps learners develop their digital literacy skills more independently.
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Join us at COABE's Virtual Conference October 25-26! We'll be hanging out in our virtual booth and happy to chat with you.
IDEAL Consortium Director, Jen Vanek, will be presenting
Blended Learning: What does this Instructional Model Look Like in ABE? on Wednesday, October 25 from 12pm - 1pm ET. Don't miss out!
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E-LEARNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Helping Students Stay: Exploring Program and Classroom Persistence Strategies
Last chance to register! Starts next week: October 18 - November 29, 2017
When you focus on helping students stay in programs, you address all the ingredients of program quality and effective instruction. Student persistence is, in fact, an indicator of program strength. In this course, you will use the six core “drivers” of persistence, identified in the New England Learner Persistence Project, to organize and review a wide range of successful persistence strategies, and to prioritize the ones that might have the most impact in your own program.
- Facilitated by Wendy Quiñones
- Estimated completion time: 3-4 hours a week
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Blended Learning for English Language Learners
November 6 - December 4, 2017
Explore how and when to use blended learning to enhance your work with adult English language learners (ELLs). Investigate ways educators have structured their curricula to include one or more blended learning approaches. See examples of how blended learning can be implemented using the free USA Learns website as an example. Leave the course with a draft lesson that uses blended learning in either face-to-face or distance settings.
- Facilitated by Diana Satin
- Estimated completion time: 2-3 hours a week
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Mathematizing ESOL I: Integrating Whole Number Operations
November 13 - December 18
This course is designed to help ESOL teachers build conceptual understanding of math topics around whole numbers and to offer strategies for integration of math into ESOL instruction. The intention is to encourage teachers to look for where, when, and how it makes sense to include math in lessons while continuing to focus on language acquisition and effective communication.
- Facilitated by Sherry Lehane and Pam Meader
- Estimated completion time: 3 hours a week
- This course is brought to you through a partnership between World Education and the
Adult Numeracy Center at TERC.
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2017 Literacy Leadership Awards |
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Congratulations to
EdTech Partner Dr. Stephen Reder for receiving a 2017 Literacy Leadership Award from the National Coalition for Literacy (NCL).
From the NCL:
The NCL Literacy Leadership Awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made extraordinary national contributions to improving adult literacy and English language learning in the United States. This year, the NCL will recognize the following outstanding individuals and organizations:
§ Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), for her long-standing dedication to our nation’s adult literacy and language programs and her efforts to safeguard education and other critical programs that ensure equal employment opportunity for adults with low literacy levels, most recently as Ranking Member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
§ Dr. Stephen Reder, Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, for his tireless advocacy for adult learners and the field of adult education, and for his extensive research on the impacts of adult literacy skills attainment, culminating in the 10-year Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning that has demonstrated the correlation between participation in adult education and increases in income, educational attainment, and civic participation.
§ Dr. Sharon Darling, Founder and President, the National Center for Families Learning, for her key role in recognizing the critical link between parents' education and children's learning, and for her nearly three decades of leadership in in establishing a nationwide network of programs that provide high quality, accessible family-based education and that have helped over one million vulnerable families learn and thrive together.
§ The Minnesota ABE Teaching and Learning Advancement System (ATLAS) at Hamline University, for its innovative, practitioner-centered program that provides quality in-service professional development for the ABE/ESOL workforce, promoting program and instructional quality, informing adult literacy practice nationwide, and producing national leaders in the field.
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