Adult Learner Persistence: a study circle (session 1 of 3) (Bos)

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Overview

This 12-hour study circle consists of three four-hour sessions. The sessions are designed to explore the research on adult students' participation, retention and persistence in adult literacy programs, and to support practitioners to consider specific ways to address their students persistence in their own classrooms and programs.

Details

Partipation in the three session study circle will allow programs to be elligible for a New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) mini-grant. Information about the mini-grants will be shared at one of the study circle sessions. For further information about the mini-grants, please contact Andy Nash at the NELRC at andy_nash@worlded.org

When

October 30, 2007 from 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm

Where

• Adult Literacy Resource Institute/SABES Greater Boston Regional Support Center, Wheatley Building 4th Floor, Room 04-167/Library, UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA
• University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston)
• Adult Literacy Resource Institute/Greater Boston SABES RSC
• Wheatley Building 4th Floor Room 04-167
• 100 Morrissey Boulevard
• Boston, MA 02120

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Registration Deadline

Oct 16, 2007 at 12:00 AM

Topics

ABE, ESOL, GED, Counseling

Multi-session attendance required

yes

Contact info

For activity information contact: Deborah Schwartz. For registration information contact: Andrea Lawless @ 617-287-4079.
andrea.lawless@umb.edu
(Deborah Schwartz: 617) 287-4072

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction
IPQ3 - Student support services

Learning objectives

Participants will be able to: * Define study circles and identify their benefits for connecting adult education research to practice. * Compare the perspectives from four reviews of literature on participation, retention, and persistence that are specific to adult basic education. * Summarize the positive and negative forces that support or hinder student persistence including the four supports to persistence suggested from the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) Adult Student Persistence Study Circle. * Differentiate the five pathways for program participation that are determined by personal and environmental factors. * Recommend program strategies for increasing adult student persistence. * Analyze their own program's retention data to determine current retention rates and intensity of instruction.

Presenters

Deborah Schwartz

Presenters Bio

Deborah Schwartz will be facilitating this three session study circle. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Instiute/Greater Boston SABES RSC.

Host RSC

Boston Region

PDPs

yes

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