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Subject: Curriculum Development
Description: In this workshop, we will explore basic operational use of the graphing calculator and provide algebraic learning experiences to help deepen content understanding.
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Subject: Curriculum Development
Description: This six-hour, interactive workshop will examine the underlying research-based foundations for teaching writing and will demonstrate ways to build our own classes on these foundations. Note: Unfortunatley, we won't be providing lunch though UMass Boston's cafeteria and cafes will be open for purchasing food. You're also welcome to brown-bag it!
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Subject: Licensure, Other Curriculum & Instruction, Trainings for Directors
Description: This workshop looks at the ABE Professional Standards for teachers as part of a self-assessment process for assessing staff and program development needs and creating plans for addressing those needs.
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Subject: Counseling
Description: Come and share your success and/or difficulties implementing the Career and Education Plans with your students. If you’ve created your own forms that you would like to share, we’d be happy to see them. This sharing group is open to counselors and any other staff who are interested. We’d be interested in hearing from people who attended the Appreciative Advising training and are open to discussing any other issues that you would like to share, including topics for future sharing groups and training topics that would help you in your counseling role. The group welcomes anyone who is a counselor/advisor or who does counseling/advising at an adult basic education program.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: This 10-hour face-to-face mini-course is required for all new teachers at adult basic education programs funded by the MA Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education. During this course practitioners will explore many facets of teaching in adult education programs, such as: who are our adult learners and what are their goals, how can we foster critically reflective practice, what does effective teaching look like, and what theorists have influenced adult education. We will also review the essential elements of lesson planning: learning objectives, the MA ABE Curriculum Frameworks, authentic assessments, and a variety of classroom activities and teaching strategies.) This is the first of two sessions. The second will be held on May 23, 2013.
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Subject: Curriculum Development
Description: As a follow up to "Using Graphing Calculators for Algebraic Representation," participants will share the results of their assignments and will do activities in using the calculators to organize and analyze data.
NOTE: PARTICIPANTS MUST ATTEND BOTH PARTS ONE AND TWO OF THIS WORKSHOP. PLEASE REGISTER FOR BOTH SEPARATELY. PART ONE TAKES PLACE ON APRIL 29.
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Subject: ABE, Counseling, Curriculum Development, ESOL, GED, Work Force Development
Description: During this workshop, you will access informative websites to help students understand how to develop a career plan to meet their education and employment goals. There will be a required online component between Wednesday, May 22-Monday, June 17, and a third session held at ALRI/U. Mass. Boston on Tuesday, June 18.
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Subject: ABE, Counseling, Curriculum Development, ESOL, GED
Description: During this session, practitioners will expand on what was learned during the first face-to-face session. Practitioners and learners will explore the many career web sites available in order to better understand options to prepare for the world of work and beyond.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Description: Overview
This 10-hour face-to-face mini-course is required for all new teachers at adult basic education programs funded by the MA Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education. During this course practitioners will explore many facets of teaching in adult education programs, such as: who are our adult learners and what are their goals, how can we foster critically reflective practice, what does effective teaching look like, and what theorists have influenced adult education. We will also review the essential elements of lesson planning: learning objectives, the MA ABE Curriculum Frameworks, authentic assessments, and a variety of classroom activities and teaching strategies.) This is the second of two sessions. The first session will be held on May 16, 2013.
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Subject: SMARTT
Description: A training for Mass DOE funded programs to learn the basics about using this reporting tool for your SMARTT data. See attendance, goals and student demographics data. Learn how to run reports based on the Performance Standards and the Federal Reports and save Favorite Views.
Important: You will need a working COGNOS User ID and Password for your agency.
A Face to Face Introduction to COGNOS for SMARTT.
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Using Graphing Calculators for Algebraic Representation (Part 1/2) Bos