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Subject: Counseling,Other Curriculum & Instruction,Trainings for Directors,Work Force Development
Description: This online course -- which you may start anytime -- will help you incorporate workforce development in your ABE/ESOL program, classroom, and/or counseling.
Subject: Assessment
Description: This online tutorial -- which you may start anytime -- covers the foundational concepts of assessment design.
Subject: Technology
Description: This will be an online course; please read the prerequisites (of this announcement) for technical requirements. This course can be taken at anytime of day or night, and from anywhere in the world with Internet access! So relax and enjoy the ride! This course will show you exciting technologies that you can easily integrate into your curriculum.
Subject: SMARTT
Description: This online workshop will cover all of the topics discussed at previous face-to-face workshops, but will have the convenience of you taking it when you want and from where you want. It will contain over 20 videos not only telling you how to do things, but showing you how to do them.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: Do you think writing learning objectives is just time-consuming busywork? In this self-paced, two-hour tutorial learn how to write them so they actually help you teach.
Subject: SMARTT,Technology,Trainings for Directors
Description: This course is totally online; only web access is needed.
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Subject: Counseling
Description: The January Counseling Sharing Group will have as a guest presenter Lenore Balliro, Director of the "Managing Stress to Improve Learning" project at World Education. Most of the sharing session will focus on participants own concerns, questions, and insights around their own students' mental health issues. Lenore will provide practical handouts as well as articles for further reading. Snow date for this session is January 12th.
Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: Aid learners in developing their numeracy skills.
Subject: ESOL
Description: This ESOL group meeting is a time to share best practices and develop systems to orient, assess and support DL students. Topic of this meeting is review of Hub and CALCs process for screening, placing students at the DL hub and orientation. Share FY11 data for discussion.
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Subject: Licensure
Description: Learn more about the MA ABE teacher licensure process
Subject: Curriculum Development
Description: This workshop will walk participants through the ACLS/SABES Lesson Plan Guide and demonstrate how clear and measurable learning objectives lead to valuable formative classroom assessments of lessons learned. The workshop is designed to help practitioners interweave formative assessments into classroom activities. and also demonstrate how students can become engaged in designing classroom assessments, including peer- and self-assessments.
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Subject: Licensure
Description: [Rescheduled from December 16.] This teacher licensure information session is an opportunity to learn more about the voluntary teacher license available to Massachusetts ABE and ESOL teachers. The four routes to licensure will be presented by Carey Reid, SABES Licensure Specialist, along with informational materials and forms. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions. The workshop is appropriate for practitioners new to the field as well as those with years of experience.
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Subject: Licensure
Description: This 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,Learning Disabilities
Description: This event is a NAALSN webinar presented by Robin Lovrien Schwarz.
Subject: GED
Description: Join Tom Mechum, GED State Chief Examiner, for a review of what you can expect in the upcoming revised GED.
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Subject: SMARTT,Technology
Description: In this update, we’ll be looking at recent changes in SMARTT and review mid-year assessment reports, follow up goals and attendance. We will tap into cognos data to get a look at what the current performance data looks like.
Subject: ESOL,Curriculum Development
Description: ESOL specialists Heidi Perez and Laurie Harwick have designed an updated version of our Reading and Writing ESOL Foundations workshop. Participants who attend will learn strategies and participate in activities addressing ESOL reading comprehension and the basic components of reading, aligned with the newly revised MA ABE ELA Reading Strand. Paricipants will also be introduced to the "new buzz" in ESOL expository writing research, The Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory, and explore techniques and strategies for classroom application.
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Subject: ESOL,Assessment
Description: Administration of the TABE CLAS-E Writing Assessment is Part One of a two-part training. (Part Two is Scoring the TABE CLAS E Writing Assessment). The TABE CLAS-E Writing Assessment is the assessment tool approved by MA DESE for demonstrating ESOL learner gains in writing. The Training is required of all staff administering the CLAS-E Writing Assessment. For those practitioners who will only administer the test and not score it, just Part One is required. For those expecting to do both, administer and score, then both Part One and Part Two are required.
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Subject: Licensure
Description: Join Carey Reid, ABE Licensure Specialist, to review the ABE Professional Standards and program data as part of a personal self-assessment process for staff development needs.
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Subject: ESOL,Assessment
Description: Scoring the TABE CLAS-E Writing Assessment is Part Two of a two-part training. (Part One is Administering the TABE CLAS-E Writing Assessment). The CLAS-E Writing Assessment is the assessment tool approved by MA DESE for demonstrating ESOL learner gains in writing. The training is required of all staff administering CLAS-E Writing Assessment. For those practitioners who will only administer the test and not score it, just Part One is required. For those expecting to do both, administer and score, then both Part One and Part Two are required.
Subject: ESOL,Assessment,Technology,Trainings for Directors
Description: The BEST Plus training is for practitioners who will be administering and scoring the BEST Plus oral proficiency assessment for ESOL learners. It is the first required step toward certification as a BEST Plus test administrator.
Subject: Counseling,Learning Disabilities,Share Group
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DL: Introduction to Workforce Development (CRC) -- online course (start: 12:05 am - Jul 1, 2011 | end: 11:55 pm - Jun 30, 2012)
