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Subject: SMARTT
Description: This online workshop will be the only Intro to Cognos workshop offered in the southeast in FY10. It 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: 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.
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Subject: Technology
Description: This workshop will delve into digital video. We will be looking at many aspects of digital video photography with the goal of unraveling its complexities.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Assessment,Community Planning,Counseling,Curriculum Development,Learning Disabilities,New Staff Orientation,SMARTT,Technology
Description: This 4-part orientation offers a broad introduction to the field of adult basic education, its history, practices and resources. Completion of course qualified participants to 15 PDPs. Attendance at all four sessions is required.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: This orientation is primarily intended for all new staff at adult basic education programs funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. ("New" is defined as having worked in adult basic education in Massachusetts for less than a year.) It is meant to serve as a broad introduction to the field, looking at such topics as the adult learner, adult learning theory, approaches to teaching, curriculum development and assessment, literacy and language acquisition, and an overview of the field. It is therfore not a basic course in teaching. This orientation is required for all new staff DESE-funded adult basics education programs; staff from other programs are also welcome as space permits.
Subject: SMARTT
Description: This training will focus on helping you create and save custom views and reports with Cognos to aid in looking at and analyzing your data. Be sure to bring a list of your questions and please make sure you know your Cognos Program logon and password (this is not the same as your Smartt logon and password!)
Subject: Assessment
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Subject: Assessment
Description: This training is for ABE teachers, counselors and other staff who will be administering the Massachusetts Adult Proficiency Tests (MAPT) to their students.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: This orientation is primarily intended for all new staff at adult basic education programs funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. ("New" is defined as having worked in adult basic education in Massachusetts for less than a year.) It is meant to serve as a broad introduction to the field, looking at such topics as the adult learner, adult learning theory, approaches to teaching, curriculum development and assessment, literacy and language acquisition, and an overview of the field. It is therfore not a basic course in teaching. This orientation is required for all new staff DESE-funded adult basics education programs; staff from other programs are also welcome as space permits.
Subject: Counseling
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Subject: Counseling
Description: This workshop will introduce ABE program counselors to the basic elements and processes of working with and assisting adult learners in ABE programs to meet their goals. It is intended especially for new or less-experienced counselors; it is also appropriate for teachers and other staff who are involved with providing support to students.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development
Description: This is the third of a 4-session series focused on the algebra strand of the Curriculum Frameworks. This session is focused on algebra instruction. Some brief homework tasks will be assigned between sessions. The dates for this series are January 29, February 5, March 5 and March 12. Please be sure to register for each session! Please read and bring homework assignments
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Subject: GED
Description: This two-session workshop will provide teachers, new to GED teaching and testing, an overview of the GED tests. It will also give participants the opportunity to learn and practice various techniques which demonstrate potential promising practices in teachig a GED class, tips on preparing students for the GED essay, as well as hands-on practice with the official GED calculator.
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Subject: Trainings for Directors
Description: This seiries of manager's meetings are designed to provide Southeast Regional ABE Director's with an opportunity to talk, brainstorm, share, create, learn and explore all the issues, policies, practices and challenges inherent in ABE Programs so that each program, practitiner and especially our learners can acheive at the highest level.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Description: We will use this session and the May 4 session to strategize on ways that your program staff can fully utilize the ICA (Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE and ESOL Classroom).
I encourage those programs that currently use the ICA to share how they use the lessons in the guide within your program. However, we will also strategize on new ways to use the ICA while aligning the lessons with the ACLS “Basic Components/Beyond the Basics Grid.
Our next two Program Staff & Development Facilitators group meeting will be thought provoking, interesting and maybe a little challenging; but everyone will leave with something useful to bring to your program staff.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Description: Boston has a wealth of museums and other cultural institutions that can serve as educational resources for ABE/ESOL programs and teachers as well as students and their families. This workshop will give ABE/ESOL practitioners in Boston and surrounding communities an opportunity to: 1) learn about some of these great resources (including the Boston Children's Museum, the Museum of Science, and the New England Aquarium; 2) explore how these museums can connect to your curriculum and help with teaching about science, social studies, health, literacy, cultural awareness, promoting your students' children's school success, and many other areas; and 3) learn how ABE/ESOL programs and students' families can access Boston's cultural institutions at low or no cost. The workshop is intended for both ESOL and ABE/GED teachers and other staff. At the end of the workshop, the museums will raffle off tickets that participants can use with students at their programs. Light refreshments will be provided.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Assessment,Community Planning,Counseling,Curriculum Development,Learning Disabilities,New Staff Orientation,SMARTT,Technology
Description: This 4-part orientation offers a broad introduction to the field of adult basic education, its history, practices and resources. Completion of course qualified participants to 15 PDPs. Attendance at all four sessions is required.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: This orientation is primarily intended for all new staff at adult basic education programs funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. ("New" is defined as having worked in adult basic education in Massachusetts for less than a year.) It is meant to serve as a broad introduction to the field, looking at such topics as the adult learner, adult learning theory, approaches to teaching, curriculum development and assessment, literacy and language acquisition, and an overview of the field. It is therfore not a basic course in teaching. This orientation is required for all new staff DESE-funded adult basics education programs; staff from other programs are also welcome as space permits.
Subject: GED
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Description: This session is part of a one of a two-part workshop focused on the algebra strand of the Curriculum Frameworks. The second session focuses on algebra instruction. Some brief homework tasks will be assigned between sessions.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: This orientation is primarily intended for all new staff at adult basic education programs funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. ("New" is defined as having worked in adult basic education in Massachusetts for less than a year.) It is meant to serve as a broad introduction to the field, looking at such topics as the adult learner, adult learning theory, approaches to teaching, curriculum development and assessment, literacy and language acquisition, and an overview of the field. It is therfore not a basic course in teaching. This orientation is required for all new staff DESE-funded adult basics education programs; staff from other programs are also welcome as space permits.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development
Description: This session is one of a 4-session series focused on the algebra strand of the Curriculum Frameworks. The first two sessions focus on algebra content, while the second two sessions focus on algebra instruction. Some brief homework tasks will be assigned between sessions. The dates for this series are January 29, February 5, March 5 and March 12. Please be sure to register for each session!
Subject: Technology
Description: Technology Sharing Group for Boston area teachers and Tech Coordinators
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Description: This research based series provides educators with the opportunity to examine the definitions of the components of reading and practice instructional and assessment strategies. This series will also show the connection between the MA ELA Curriculum Framework and research based practices. Technical assistance will be provided to help educators use and evaluate the research based reading methods through the lens of their particular students in their classroom. It is highly recommended that participants attend all the modules in this series. After attending the first module you may register for other sessions that meet your professional needs.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Description: The purpose of this is to bring ABE and ESOL students from programs in Western Mass to Holyoke Community College for a day, to experience what a community college is like.
Subject: Work Force Development
Description: Experience this career planning process in a one-day, 6-hour training with lots of interactive hands-on activities. Teachers and counselors will learn how to integrate career awareness lessons in ESOL and ABE classrooms and counseling/advising activities.
The Integrating Career Awareness Guide can be used creatively as a stand-alone component such as a non-rates based class, or integrated into existing curricula or counseling activities.
This workshop is a revision of the previous “Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE/ESOL Program” and focuses on how you can use this curriculum guide in many aspects of your program, including counseling/advising and instruction.
This workshop will provide you with a valuable tool to help learners in your program to begin exploring their skills, values, interests and abilities so they can achieve their next steps goals and move toward realizing their career dreams.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling
Description: All ABE Program staff and students from across the northeast region of the state are invited to “COLLEGE FOR A NIGHT: A DOORWAY TO LIFE-CHANGING POSSIBILITIES!” Students will have the opportunity to attend classes, meet NECC faculty, counselors and student ambassadors, learn about the many NECC student support services available for transitioning ABE students, and experience a small slice of college life! Help your ABE learners discover that college IS a possibility! By participating in this very special event, ABE learners will have the opportunity to explore the possibilities of their academic and career “Next Steps”; experiencing an evening of information gathering and engagement in college degree and certification classes of their choice at NECC. Participants will also have the opportunity to meet and interact with a panel of former ABE learners, currently enrolled as NECC students, who will share the successes and challenges they have met as alternative learners and the supports the community college environment has provided them.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: This orientation is primarily intended for all new staff at adult basic education programs funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. ("New" is defined as having worked in adult basic education in Massachusetts for less than a year.) It is meant to serve as a broad introduction to the field, looking at such topics as the adult learner, adult learning theory, approaches to teaching, curriculum development and assessment, literacy and language acquisition, and an overview of the field. It is therfore not a basic course in teaching. This orientation is required for all new staff DESE-funded adult basics education programs; staff from other programs are also welcome as space permits.
Subject: ESOL,Assessment,Curriculum Development,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: This hybrid mini-course focuses on practices that have proven to work well in teaching adult ESOL learners.
Subject: Trainings for Directors
Description: This session of the Boston region's Program Directors Sharing Group will focus on how programs handle the intake and orientation of new students. What sort of orientation process does your program use? What activities or meetings do you hold? Who presents your student orientations? What information do you provide to new students? Do you have a student handbook? This session will give you an opportunity to talk with, learn from, and share ideas with your fellow program directors about doing student orientations at your programs. Come join us!
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,Curriculum Development
Description: This year's Adult Education Institute will focus on teaching reading in the ABE classroom with John Strucker, Zero prep when teaching for depth in the ESOL classroom with Laurel Pollard and teaching writing across the ESOL performance levels with Sarah Thomas.
*A “PDP”- able Event!
*Please note…
You must attend both days - parts 1 & 2 of each workshop and submit a 750-word reflection paper to receive PDPs. “Staff development of 10 PDPs or more may be used as coursework for the ABE Teacher's License if it fits the criteria in the Guidelines." *Registration is open to those who prefer to attend individual workshops.
Day 2 of this Institute is April 10, 2010
Subject: ESOL,Assessment,Curriculum Development,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: This hybrid mini-course focuses on practices that have proven to work well in teaching adult ESOL learners.
Subject: GED
Description: This two-session workshop will provide teachers, new to GED teaching and testing, an overview of the GED tests. It will also give participants the opportunity to learn and practice various techniques which demonstrate potential promising practices in teachig a GED class, tips on preparing students for the GED essay, as well as hands-on practice with the official GED calculator.
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Subject: ESOL
Description: Laurel Pollard brought back by popular demand. We can do much more than help our students to learn English in our ESOL classes. We can empower them to engage successfully with people in all aspects of their lives. In this hands-on workshop, teachers will learn and practice strategies that will assist students to take the leap to their next steps in the learning process, either to go on to higher education classes, move on to the workplace, or simply move up to their next level of instruction. Laurel will provide you with the necessary materials/techniques to help your students realize that they matter and that they are capable of becoming lifelong learners.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Description: Most teachers in adult basic education programs are faced with the challenge of working with multi-level classes. The methods of differentiated instruction can often help teachers become more effective at meeting the needs of their students in these multi-level classes. Participants in this mini-course, intended for ABE, ESOL, and GED teachers, will learn and practice strategies long used successfully in the K-12 setting and adapted for use in the adult education classroom. Participants will share ideas and experiences in two face-to-face meetings as well as four weeks of supported, interactive online work, developing their own lesson plans. The mini-course begins with a 4-hour face-to-face session on February 22, which will include an orientation to the online aspects of the course. The following four weeks will involve about an hour a week online plus roughly another hour a week of off-line work on lesson plans. The course ends with this 2-hour face-to-face meeting. (This course is adapted from an online course originally developed by the presenter for World Education.)
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Subject: ESOL,Curriculum Development
Description: This workshop is sponsored by both Boston and Northeast SABES. Laurel Pollard, co-author of the Zero Preparation teacher resource books, is returning to Massachusetts.
This hands-on workshop will provide you with activities you can use tomorrow and for the rest of your teaching career -- activities that help students take charge of their own learning while giving you more time to think, breathe, relax, and recover your vision.
Subject: ESOL,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: (This is a workshop sponsored by Boston and North East.) Laurel Pollard, co-author of the Zero Preparation teacher resource books, is returning to Massachusetts.
This hands-on workshop will provide you with activities you can use tomorrow and for the rest of your teaching career -- activities that help students take charge of their own learning while giving you more time to think, breathe, relax, and recover your vision.
Subject: SMARTT,Technology
Description: Training for all new and interested users of the SMARTT system.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Assessment,Community Planning,Counseling,Curriculum Development,Learning Disabilities,New Staff Orientation,SMARTT,Technology
Description: This 4-part orientation offers a broad introduction to the field of adult basic education, its history, practices and resources. Completion of course qualified participants to 15 PDPs. Attendance at all four sessions is required.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling
Description: Experience this career planning process in a one-day, 6-hour training with lots of interactive hands-on activities. This workshop is a revised edition of the previous “Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE/ESOL Program.” The focus is now on how you can use this curriculum guide in most aspects of your program, including counseling/advising and instruction. Teachers and counselors will learn how to integrate career awareness lessons in ESOL and ABE classrooms as well as counseling/advising activities
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Other Curriculum & Instruction,Trainings for Directors
Description: This workshop looks at the ABE Professional Standards and program improvement data as a part of a personal self-assessment process for staff development needs.
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Subject: Assessment
Description: This training is intended only for staff at programs funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education/Adult and Community Learning Services that are required to use this test. Check with your program director to see if you should attend and then be sure to pre-register, since there are limits on the number of participants. Also, be sure to read the Prerequisites section below.
Subject: Curriculum Development
Description: Are your students being prepared for success in their next steps goals for employment, post secondary education or training while in your classroom? During this workshop you will explore how you can integrate job readiness and 21st Century Skills for successful next steps into your current curriculum, no matter what the content. This workshop is eligible for PDPs as part of the Integrating 21st Century Skills in ABE/ESOL professional development series.
Subject: Trainings for Directors
Description: The Progam and Staff Development process in an important mechanism to help ABE practitioenrs improve curriculum development, teaching strategies and methodologies, and program management with the ultimate goal of enhancing services to adult learners in their programs. Come talk with other programs about staff development initiatives, training needs and ways to "re-energize" the hard working practitioners in your program.
Subject: Technology
Description: This workshop will delve into digital video. We will be looking at many aspects of digital video photography with the goal of unraveling its complexities.
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Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: This final workshop will begin with a review of the key concepts for Workshop 1 and 2. Participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences trying one or more of the suggested vocabulary teaching approaches and one or more of the print skills teaching approaches. Guiding questions will include: What approaches were tried and with which levels of learners? What were the results? How if at all will these experiences change the way you teach and how you teach it?
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Subject: ESOL,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: This workshop brings Laurel Pollard, a nationally-known presenter and author of ESOL books, to western Massachusetts to share her ideas on zero preparation activities for the ESOL classroom.
Subject: SMARTT
Description: This is a required DESE training. All programs need to have at least 2 staff members who have completed the SMARTT New User training. This workshop covers all aspects of entering and viewing data in the SMARTT system.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Assessment,Community Planning,Counseling,Curriculum Development,Learning Disabilities,New Staff Orientation,SMARTT,Technology
Description: This 4-part orientation offers a broad introduction to the field of adult basic education, its history, practices and resources. Completion of course qualified participants to 15 PDPs. Attendance at all four sessions is required.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling,Share Group
Description: If you are the designate Counselor in your program- or if you have any ABE/ESOL counseling responsibility in your work, you are invited to attend our first Counselors’ Sharing Seminar of 2010, facilitated by experienced counselor, Laura Kranis of SCALE in Somerville.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Other Curriculum & Instruction,Trainings for Directors
Description: This four hour workshop is designed to help teachers, directors, counselors, and other program staff understand and implement effective goal setting practices and the Massachusetts DESE Countable Outcomes Policy in order to facilitate learners' Next Steps.
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Subject: ESOL,Technology
Description: -Do your students and you want to use websites in class for learning english but you drown in the plethora of sites out there ? Are you wanting to find really good ones that others are using?
-Do you find great sites but sometimes find it difficult to figure out how to incorporate them into your curriculum so it’s a good use of class time?
Then this course is for you! (And websites are better than software because they’re free!)
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: The Mass. Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education REQUIRES all staff ‘new’ to Mass. Adult Basic Education programs to complete 15 hours of orientation training. Please enroll all staff members who have not completed this course, including those who aren’t ‘new’ to the field. Participants must attend all sessions and complete all homework and projects to complete the course successfully and receive a completion certificate.
Three Saturdays: January 30, February 27 & April 3, 2010
Arrive at 9:30 for refreshments and registration
Training begins at 10:00 am SHARP! – 3:30 pm
Strictly limited to 14 Participants - YOU MUST ATTEND ALL THREE SESSIONS
*Morning Coffee and Light Refreshments Will Be Provided*
*You MUST bring your lunch. Lunch break is only 30 minutes*
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DL: Intro to Cognos (SE) - you can start this course anytime!! (start: 12:05 am - Jan 1, 2010 | end: 11:55 pm - Jun 30, 2010)
