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SABES Calendar
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling
Region: southeast
Description: Come and learn how to collaborate with your students to set authentic goals and then monitor and document achievement toward these goals in adherence to the Massachusetts DOE Countable Outcomes (CO) Policy. In this interactive session we’ll review the CO policy and its requirements and then work in groups to develop a goal management system for your program.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling,Trainings for Directors
Region: southeast
Description: *Calling all practitioners, counselors and program directors*
Setting effective, realistic and attainable student goals should be at the heart of every ABE Program. In order to support learner’s goal attainment, goals need to be integrated throughout your program. This 4-hour workshop will provide you with the hands-on opportunity to learn how to integrate student goals into your classroom practice and throughout your program.
This workshop will focus on components of goals, applying goal setting in the classroom by highlighting promising practices in programs.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: central
Description: Central SABES is recruiting teacher participants to form a cohort and commit to ten hours of professional development in the teaching and learning of math. Participants will participate in math activities, and will develop lesson plans that engage both the student and teacher in interesting and meaningful ways, while increasing their comfort in using the MA ABE Curriculum Frameworks for Math and Numeracy. In subsequent sessions by sharing feedback on learner responses, the participants will revise and expand their lessons to meet the needs of their particular student population.
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Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: northeast
Description: This workshop is for experienced program administrators. Participants of this workshop will come away with an understanding of all aspects of the program design process for refunding.
Subject: SMARTT
Region: central
Description: Program Planning
Subject: SMARTT,Trainings for Directors
Region: northeast
Description: This update immediately follows the Program Design Refresher held in the morning. This open lab will be to discuss any issues that arise from entering data into the Program Plan
Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: central
Description: Are you an experienced ABE Program Administrator who needs a review of the MA DOE rates system and program design? This session will also provide an update on changes for FY09.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: central
Description:
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Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction,Work Force Development
Region: west
Description: An Interactive workshop, in two parts, on Worker Rights including Health and Safety Issues, presented by the UMass Labor Extension Program.
Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: boston
Description: This single-session workshop is intended for DOE-funded program administrators who need a review of ABE program design, rates, flex and foundation services, FTEs, contact hourly rates, etc. It will provide an update on changes for FY09 and review other aspects of the program design process.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling
Region: northeast
Description: Every day, educational counselors in ABE programs help students negotiate issues that affect their abilities to pursue their goals. These significant issues provide logistical, motivational, interpersonal, social, financial, and psychological barriers to student success. Counselors build relationships with students, boost morale, provide support and guidance around educational barriers, and help them to cope with crises, often utilizing strong referral networks that they have established. The skills, strategies, and techniques involved in these problem-solving situations are often taken for granted. Counselors are often naturally resourceful, but they can benefit greatly, as can their students, from gaining specific training in recognizing and expanding their problem-solving methods.
Subject: SMARTT,Trainings for Directors
Region: boston
Description: This OPTIONAL SMARTT Update is for Directors and other staff who are attending the morning Program Design Refresher training and are interested in working in a SMARTT lab format. Please note there is limited space for this workshop. Please only come if absolutely necessary.
Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: southeast
Description: This two-part workshop will first orient you to the Massachusetts ABE Curriculum Frameworks and then demonstrate how to use them to develop a program-wide curriculum in manageable stages. You will learn how to use the frameworks to set standards and benchmarks for each class in your program and/or determine which standards and benchmarks you are already covering. You will also develop a draft action plan to guide curriculum development at your program. There will be time to generate draft materials (both action plan and curriculum documents), share materials with fellow participants, and critique them for revision.
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Subject: ESOL,Learning Disabilities
Region: central
Description: Do you have ESOL learners in your classes that are struggling? Do you find yourself at a loss as to how to help them? By attending this workshop you will learn some new strategies, ideas and techniques to enhance your ability to teach the ESOL and LD learner in your classes.
Subject: SMARTT,Trainings for Directors
Region: west
Description: Review of the MA DOE, comprehensive system of funding and structuring ABE services
Subject: Share Group,Trainings for Directors
Region: central
Description: The PSD process is an important mechanism to help ABE practitioners improve curriculum development, teaching strategies and methodologies, and program management with the ultimate goal of enhancing services to adult learners in your program. Come talk with other programs about staff development initiatives, training needs and ways to "re-energize" the hard working practitioners in your program.
Subject: Counseling
Region: boston
Description: At this meeting, we will examine multi-cultural issues in ABE programs. How can the ABE counselor facilitate cultural awareness among learners, teachers and other staff members? What are our own cultural biases? How do we solve misunderstandings that may occur due to a lack of understanding of cultural differences? How do we foster and maintain an atmosphere of tolerance, respect and understanding in our programs?
Come and share your thoughts on these and other issues. What works for you? What doesn’t work? Share your strategies and learn what has worked for other counselors.
Subject: SMARTT,Technology,Trainings for Directors
Region: west
Description: This SMARTT Update is for Directors and other staff who are attending the morning Program Design Refresher training and are interested in working in a SMARTT lab format. Jim Ayers and Charlie Herbert will be assisting to answer program design and planning questions and provide tips and tricks.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,Licensure
Region: west
Description: The information session is an opportunity to find out about the Teacher License available to Massachusetts ABE and ESOL teachers.
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Subject: ESOL,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: southeast
Description: This series provides newer ESOL practitioners exposure to more advanced methods & teaching strategies while getting them involved with program development activity including lesson planning and curriculum development.
Subject: ABE
Region: southeast
Description: This course will provide you with knowledge, skills, and strategies for enhancing the reading comprehension ability of your mid-level ABE learners. The course will also inform you of approaches for developing the word attack skills that many mid-level readers do not yet possess and which impair their ability to read to learn. In the practicum portion of the course, you’ll work directly with learners trying out newly learned skills, develop a draft lesson plan unit that adheres to MA DOE expectations, and share results with fellow participants.
**** Course Requirements ****
30 workshop hours
15 hours practicum including:
Designing, implementing &
sharing lesson plans
Homework readings
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: southeast
Description: Adult learners' well-being is profoundly affected by the current tax system and by the policies of our executive and legislative leaders. Have you always wanted to incorporate this kind of civic participation content into your classroom? Or perhaps you already have designed and implemented lessons about the U.S. government, the role of taxes, and electoral politics into your curriculum and would like to learn about other approaches and materials that are available. Either way, join us for a 3 and a half-hour workshop, where we will explore the recently updated curriculum, Your Taxes, Your Government, Your Choices curriculum developed by the Massachusetts Coalition of Adult Educators (MCAE), and where we will be introduced to the work of the New England Voter Education, Registration and Action (VERA) campaign 2008 including a host of appropriate and useful voting materials for the classroom.
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Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction,Share Group,Volunteer Coordinators
Region: west
Description: This group is intended for Volunteer Coordinators. Participants share ideas, materials and more related to volunteer management issues.
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Subject: Share Group,Technology
Region: west
Description: This event is open to anyone wishing to learn from their peers on useful technologies in the ABE/ESOL classroom.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling,Work Force Development
Region: central
Description: Providing information on what's available for adult learners beyond their ABE program is a powerful tool to help students identify, develop and achieve their education, community and employment goals. Too often, choices of training programs and postsecondary education are greatly influenced by advertising and incomplete or misleading information. By taking a close look at the comprehensive services offered free by the Educational Opportunity Centers and by learning the right questions to ask when shopping for a next step our students will be able to avoid common pitfalls and difficulties as "next step consumers".
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Subject: Learning Disabilities
Region: boston
Description: ADA Coordinators and others are invited to this sharing group. The group explore issues and resources related to confidentiality and mandated reporting.
Subject: ABE,GED
Region: southeast
Description: Michele Bahr will take you out of this world and bring you back in this course of two dynamic science sessions. You will explore the elements of science through simple, hands on activities designed to increase your understanding of key scientific concepts and your ability to convey what you learned to your students.
Subject: Assessment
Region: southeast
Description: This workshop is designed to help practitioners develop assessments that will guide their practice. This workshop will include several presentations and activities that stress authentic assessment techniques. Other activities will demonstrate how students can be engaged in designing classroom assessments, including peer and self-assessments. The development of learning objectives and their connection to assessment will be identified and their connection to the Curriculum Frameworks will be presented.
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Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: west
Description: 15 hour course that covers essential elements of Human Resource procedures.
Subject: New Staff Orientation
Region: central
Description: The Department of Education requires all staff new to Adult Basic Education to participate in 15 hours of orientation training. This orientation offers a broad introduction to the world of adult education, its practices and resources. You should attend this training if you have worked in an adult education program for less than one year, or if you have never received a comprehensive introduction to adult education.
Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: west
Description: ESOL teachers learn how to write lesson plans that are valuable to themselves and their students and consistent with ACLS guidelines.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,Curriculum Development
Region: boston
Description: This workshop is one of the Multicultural Competency series that ALRI/Boston SABES is now constructing on a pilot basis to meet the increasing needs for multicultural resources or skills by teachers, counselors and administrators in culturally diverse ABE/ESOL programs. As a new immigrant from a Muslim country, the presenter will identify and explain some major features of the Middle East cultures and diversity. She will address issues that students from the Arabic-speaking part of the Middle East will encounter in the ESOL classroom. Also on the agenda will be a discussion between the presenter and participants on the “DOs” and “DON'Ts” within the Middle East cultures.
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Subject: Volunteer Coordinators
Region: northeast
Description: This workshop will focus on special topics in volunteer management,
including program planning, recruitment, screening, training,
supervision, and recognition. The workshop will introduce theory and
research relevant to volunteer management, as well as allow for
sharing of best practices among the participants. It is appropriate
for beginning and experienced volunteer coordinators.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: southeast
Description: Despite high school experience and/or completion of the GED test battery, many students arrive at the community college without the reading and math skills needed to succeed in college work. In this interactive training, participants will learn about and have the chance to experience the College Placement Test – ACCUPLACER, the test used to evaluate students who may need developmental courses at the Community College. The presenters will compare the test structure and purposes to the GED components, and provide resources for instructional models to prepare students for this placement exam.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: central
Description: This is the description
Subject: SMARTT,Technology,Trainings for Directors
Region: west
Description: An overview of EXCEL operations and spreadsheets to assist ABE administrators in performing certain tasks.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Work Force Development
Region: southeast
Description: We will discuss common immigration issues, concentrating on undocumented individuals and their rights as well as documentation requirements. By gaining a basic understanding of immigration laws and the issues that can cause problems for your students, you will have a better understanding of how to discuss these issues with them and how to guide them to get the right kind of help.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,Counseling,Work Force Development
Region: boston
Description: There will be 4 presenters at this workshop to deliver topics on ABE transition supports and services. They will also join in relevant discussions following their presentations.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: central
Description:
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Subject: Technology
Region: central
Description: Join Eunice for a one hour session using web conferencing (Wimba) to learn specific technology skills. Sit at your own PC and using a link provided join an online class to enhance your technology skills.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development,Trainings for Directors
Region: northeast
Description: This two-part workshop will first orient you to the Massachusetts ABE Curriculum Frameworks and then demonstrate how to use them to develop a program-wide curriculum in manageable stages. You will learn how to use the frameworks to set standards and benchmarks for each class in your program and/or determine which standards and benchmarks you are already covering. You will also develop a draft action plan to guide curriculum development at your program. There will be time to generate draft materials (both action plan and curriculum documents), share materials with fellow participants, and critique them for revision.
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Subject: Curriculum Development
Region: boston
Description: Join other Boston-area ABE and ESOL teachers and program staff as they ask questions, provide answers, pose challenges and share successes about their unique curriculum development processes. The day will be structured so as to encourage an authentic conversation about the concrete and big picture issues related to programs' individual curriculum development as well as to support teachers and other program staff to take the next steps that they deem necessary on their curriculum development journey. There will be some overview of curriculum development provided. Mostly, the day will revolve around facilitated whole group and small group discussion around topics that may include: successes and challenges that programs have faced as they develop and refine their curriculum; curriculum as a work-in-progress, program uniqueness and how it affects or defines the curriculum, the role of students in curriculum development, aligning curriculum with the Massachusetts Department of Education's Curriculum Frameworks, etc. In addition, there will be time and room to share units or curriculum documents, if participants are interested. Still, the emphasis of the day will be on the process of curriculum development and addressing questions such as: what have we done so far to capture what we do in the class-why and how?, what is still missing? what do we think are the next steps in our development process? what resources and supports do we need to make that happen? The SABES librarian will be on hand to offer material from the state-wide library.
LUNCH WILL BE SERVED!
Subject: ABE,ESOL,Assessment,Curriculum Development
Region: west
Description: This workshop is designed to help practitioners develop assessments that will inform and guide their teaching practice.
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Subject: ABE
Region: southeast
Description: This course will provide you with knowledge, skills, and strategies for enhancing the reading comprehension ability of your mid-level ABE learners. The course will also inform you of approaches for developing the word attack skills that many mid-level readers do not yet possess and which impair their ability to read to learn. In the practicum portion of the course, you’ll work directly with learners trying out newly learned skills, develop a draft lesson plan unit that adheres to MA DOE expectations, and share results with fellow participants.
**** Course Requirements ****
30 workshop hours
15 hours practicum including:
Designing, implementing &
sharing lesson plans
Homework readings
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Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: southeast
Description: This year there will be three Manager’s Lunch and Learn Sharing Group sessions. Come and discuss and share your programs issues and concerns, mingle and network with your colleagues, enjoy a light lunch and help plan for the following two sharing sessions.
Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction,Technology
Region: west
Description: Using MS Word to create visually attractive promotional materials
Subject: Share Group
Region: southeast
Description: Come and learn from your colleagues as you discuss the issues you face in your role as Program/Staff Development Facilitator. Program procedures, policies, activities and more pertaining to the program/staff development function are all considerations for focus in these meetings. Please also join us for lunch starting at 12:15.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling
Region: central
Description:
Subject: ESOL,Counseling,Curriculum Development
Region: northeast
Description: After completing this workshop, participants will be conversant with the new vs the old Citizenship Test and
familiar with materials & strategies for incorporating civics test content & useful interview tools into ESOL lessons, especially for the lower proficiency levels
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,Counseling
Region: west
Description: This 4-hour workshop introduces new ABE program counselors, teachers and other support staff to the basic elements and processes of working with and assisting adult learners in meeting their goals.
Subject: ABE,GED,Curriculum Development
Region: boston
Description: During this two-part workshop, teachers will learn about how to teach GED-based math through creative projects that use an integrated skills model that incorporates social studies, science, reading and writing skills. Teachers will be encouraged to experiment with this model in their classrooms after the first workshop, and then return to the second workshop willing and able to share what happened.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling,Share Group
Region: southeast
Description: ADARN Sharing Groups are a valuable resource for ADA Coordinators, Educators, Counselors and Volunteer Coordinators.
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Subject: ESOL,Curriculum Development
Region: west
Description: This workshop will focus on identifying possible learning disability characteristics in an ESOL learner, reviewing case studies of learners and developing strategies for assisting a suspected LD learner.
Subject: Counseling,Learning Disabilities
Region: northeast
Description: ADA Coordinators, Counselors, Teachers, and others are invited to this sharing group. The topic for this meeting will be confidentiality. It was the topic most requested on the recent ADA survey.
Subject: Technology
Region: southeast
Description: This roundtable will focus on 'Integrating Technology into the Classroom'. This is a 'focus' of DOE, so it behooves us all to understand what this phrase means and what we can do to score well if Monitored.....
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Subject: ABE,ESOL
Region: central
Description: Come discover the practical, repeatable teaching routines that involve all language skills, activate students' learning strategies and all proficiency levels and require no teacher preparation time!
Laural Pollard will present Wizardry with Exercises for Beginners on Wednesday, May 28 from 9:30am - 12:30pm. Attendance at both sessions is not required. Please register separately.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL
Region: central
Description: This three-hour session will focus on more zero-preparation activities with a concentration on strategies for low-level English Language Learners as they relate to reading. Some of the activities will be from Laural's new book to be published in the spring, Wow! Stories from Real Life published by ALTA publications.
Laural Pollard will present Restore the Joy to Teaching with Zero Preparation Activieis on Tuesday, May 27 from 9:30am - 3:30pm. Attendance at both sessions is not required. Please register separately.
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Subject: Counseling
Region: central
Description: At this, the third meeting of the year we will be joined by Katia Santiago-Taylor from the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA). MOVA is an independent state agency dedicated to advancing rights and services for victims of violent crimes. TO meet that goal they offer training and outreach to the community. Our session iwth Katia will focus on support services for victims of violent crimes and their failies and on domestic violence. There will be time for questions and answers and of course there will be time for our group problem solving and peer support.
Subject: ABE,GED,Curriculum Development
Region: boston
Description: During this two-part workshop, teachers will learn about how to teach GED-based math through creative project using an integrated skills model. Teachers will be encouraged to experiment with this model in their classrooms after the first workshop, and then return to the second workshop willing and able to share what happened.
Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: southeast
Description: This two-part workshop will first orient you to the Massachusetts ABE Curriculum Frameworks and then demonstrate how to use them to develop a program-wide curriculum in manageable stages. You will learn how to use the frameworks to set standards and benchmarks for each class in your program and/or determine which standards and benchmarks you are already covering. You will also develop a draft action plan to guide curriculum development at your program. There will be time to generate draft materials (both action plan and curriculum documents), share materials with fellow participants, and critique them for revision.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: northeast
Description: The Promising Practices Forum will feature effective, innovative and creative ABE and ESOL practices presented by area practitioners in the Northeast region.
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Subject: ESOL,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: west
Description: This workshop was and presented at Network 2007 presenters. This “version” is expanded and improved! It will look at the “why, what, and how” of teaching vocabulary in the ESOL classroom.
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