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Creating a Workplace Readiness Class for Adult ESL and ABE
Julie Feferman, Perez Instructor and Career Technical Education Advisor
Hayward Adult School
As the focus for both ESL and ABE (Adult Basic Education) shifts towards Workforce Development, new courses and curriculum are needed. Across the board, Adult Ed Programs will be asked to demonstrate how they are implementing transition to workplace, vocational training or higher education. Workplace ESL or ABE courses can successfully address multiple objectives: They can demystify workplace norms and procedures, instruct employability skills, and continue to build reading, writing, speaking and numeracy skills. Concepts, vocabulary, and skills can all be integrated into a focused curriculum. While a shift away from life-skills and/or language mechanics (traditional ESL and ABE approach) may meet resistance, the relevance of workplace-contextualized instruction should be welcomed by students. Pilot projects in a number of Adult Schools are tackling this challenge.
Leading Adult Learners—Managing GED Students for Success
Damon Tinnon— Teacher, Joe Escalera—Student, Napa Valley Adult School
Learn about a brand new curriculum approach to GED Preparation. See how focusing students around curriculum that is based on passing scores can reduce prep time, keep students engaged and result in more passed test. Gain new tools to help manage large group, small group and one -on-one instruction. This approach has helped hundreds in the classroom and thousands over the internet - via You Tube!
GED: Pass Now, Prepare for the Future
Renee Clark, Educational Consultant, Steck-Vaughn/HMH
Christine Paynton, ABE/GED/CTE Instructor—Mt. Diablo Adult Education
This session provides tools, strategies, and resources for helping your students pass the 2002 GED test and introduces you to what's coming in 2014, including preparing for post-secondary or workplace. Hear perspectives from a publisher’s educational consultant and a GED trainer who has helped over 1,000 students achieve their GED.
Proven Strategies for ESL Program Success
Marilyn Knight-Mendelson, Assistant Principal, Napa Valley Adult School
Susana van Bezooijen, Program Specialist, CASAS
Promising Practices are innovative strategies implemented in Adult Education programs and awarded by the California Department of Education. Agencies receive awards when programs develop skills students need in the workplace and have potential application in other adult programs. A local agency that won two awards in 2011 —one for a Community of Practice which brings teachers together to engage them in collective learning to improve student learning outcomes, and another for the Workplace Training Institute which is a customized language development and computer literacy program that provides local businesses and agencies with highly professional employee training.
Presenter will describe these programs, share how they were developed and give concrete steps so that participants can recreate these programs or specific program components in their own agencies.
Transitioning Adult ESL with Future
Tracy Bailie, ESL Specialist, Pearson Longman
Preparing adult learners for the next step is at the center of most ESL classes. This presentation will focus on how Future will help students acquire 21st century skills so they can meet the challenges of learning English, transition to academic study, and achieve their personal, educational, and career goals.
Collaborations for Career Success: Supporting Adult ESL Students Transitioning from Adult School to Community College to Work
Kristen Pursley, ESL Lead Teacher, West Contra Costa Adult Education
Nain Lopez, Program Manager, Catholic Charities of the East Bay Project BMAT
Mey Saeteurn, Program Director, Catholic Charities of the East Bay Project ACCESS
Through Catholic Charities of the East Bay’s Project ACCESS and Project BMAT, community based organizations, adult schools and community colleges collaborate to support ESL students transitioning from adult school to community college to careers in early childhood education and medical assisting, applying a model that could work for many careers.
Learn Math and Business Soft Skills Online
Janet Scarpone, Author and Online Professor; Valerie Schmidt, Author and Lead Engineer
Learn Math Quickly and Business Soft Skills are formatted and available online. Janet Scarpone, author and online Professor of Communication at Front Range Community College and Val Schmidt, Lead Engineer and co-author of Business Soft Skills, will demonstrate how these critical curricula will work for you and your students."
CASAS Content Standards and the Common Core State Standards: where do they intersect?
Patty Long, Susana van Bezooijen, CASAS Program Specialists
The new Common Core State Standards “provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.” The CASAS Content Standards are clear statements of what learners should be able to do at specific points along an educational pathway. They define for teachers, students, schools and communities—not only what is expected of students but what schools should teach. They provide a “clear sequence” of learning activities.
Come be introduced to the Common Core State Standards and the CASAS Content Standards, learn how the standards evolved and how they are interrelated. Learn how to use the CASAS Content Standards to be sure the adults in your programs are getting standards- based instruction that will prepare them for success in postsecondary education and the workforce.
"Going the Distance with OTAN and USA Learns!"
Kathleen Jain: ESL Distance Learning Coordinator and teacher, Berkeley Adult School
Laura Grossmann: ESL Distance Learning teacher, Berkeley Adult School
Blair Roy: Project Specialist, OTAN
Want the low down on adding an online ESL option to your program? Two teachers at Berkeley Adult School have completed one semester piloting OTAN's intermediate level USA Learns 2nd English Course Moodle Wrap-Around as a blended model for their distance learning program. They have fresh ideas for peers who want to benefit from their experience. In this session you will get a brief overview of the 'how and why' of offering an online option for ESL students, practical tips for getting started, challenges for teachers and students, examples of student/teacher work and a question/answer period.
Free courses to link your students to success!
Penny Pearson, Coordinator, Distance Learning Project, OTAN
OTAN developed three courses to help teachers help students succeed. Created by ESL and ABE teachers from California, our courses help ESL students gain language skills and ABE students wanting to transition to work or school. Come learn about our offerings and how you can get your FREE copy!
Beyond the Deadend: LInking Academics with Career Development and Helping ABE/ASE Students Gain Career Awareness to Attain Career Success
Valerie Clifford, Curriculum Coordinator/Teacher, Campbell Adult and Community Education
This workshop will support ASE instructors by providing them with an opportunity to explore relevant career development activities they can bring into the classroom. Instructors can utilize these activities to increase their students' interest in the career development process. When students discover their own work values, it is much more likely that they will set clear goals and choose career pathways that will lead to success. Participants will get an overview of research that supports the relationship between career development in the classroom and increased persistence, examples of hands on career related activities, and free online career assessment resources for students.
Creating a Bridge for Adult Students to Job Training and Post-Secondary Programs
Lynne Nicodemus Vice Principal Pittsburg Adult Education Center
Pittsburg Adult Education Center (PAEC) has created a successful bridge program for adult students within the school and to the local community college. Learn about the process the school followed to create and continue development of transitional support systems.
Transitioning to Postsecondary
Lillie Clausen, CALPRO Facilitator
Do you want to know what it takes to create and implement a bridge program that leads to an academic degree and/or career certification? Learn about best practices and strategies to implement a successful postsecondary transition program. At the conclusion of this session you will be provided with key information to help your agency in their next steps to create agency actions plans for postsecondary transitions. This workshop is designed for adult education administrators, instructors, and counselors or student support personnel.
Classroom 2.0: e-Portfolios in the Adult ESL Classroom
Deborah Gordon, Teacher, Oakland Unified School District
What are e-portfolios? Showcase of e-portfolios from work done by ESL students in Intermediate classes, using a wiki. We will then look at several free, web-based resources that will complement and extend teachers’ existing portfolio and instructional activities. The last part of the presentation is reserved for questions and answers.
Organizing for Advocacy: Save Adult Ed!
Adult schools are under increasing jeopardy! Almost all programs have reduced the number of classes and, sadly some programs have closed completely. Local districts with huge funding challenges have the ability to sweep adult education funds and the Governor's proposed weighted funding formula may only increase our vulnerability. Now is the time to organize our advocacy as never before. This workshop will debrief attendees on what happened in Sacramento on March 5 at the annual CCAE Leg Day and continue our work to coordinate strategic outreach to our local legislators. |
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• CCAE Bay Section Newsletter—Winter 2011
• February 4, 2012—CCAE Bay Section Report
• October 15, 2011—CCAE Bay Section Report
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Section Presidents
March 10, 2012
Bay Section Winter Conference & Excellence Awards
"Linking Adults to Opportunities"
Berkeley Adult Education
1701 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, California
8:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Debbie Norgaard
President
Liberty Adult Education
925.634.2565, Ext. 1073
norgaard@libertyuhsd.k12.ca.us
Shawna Tronconi
President Elect
Napa Valley Adult Education
707.253.3594
stronconi@nvusd.k12.ca.us
Bob Harper
Vice President
Campbell Adult and Community Education
408.626.3402
bharper@cuhsd.org
Christine Berdiansky
Becky Pestarino
Past Co-Presidents
Santa Clara Adult
408.423.3500
cberdiansky@scusd.net
bpestarino@scusd.net
Kathy Farwell
Secretary
Martinez Adult Education
925.228.3276
kfarwell@martinez.k12.ca.us
Rob Lawrence
Treasurer
Martinez Adult Education
925.228.3276, Ext. 218
rlawrence@martinez.k12.ca.us
Vittoria Abbate-Maghsoudi
Legislative Chair
Mt. Diablo Adult Education
925.685.7340
abbategv@mdusd.k12.ca.us
Burr Guthrie
Legislative Chair–Alternate
Berkeley Adult School
510.644.6130
burrguthrie@berkeley.net
Alma Cipriani
Section Awards Chair
San Lorenzo Adult School
510.317.4208
stonea@comcast.net
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