Teaching about the Tax System and Voting: A Civic Participation Workshop (Bos)

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Overview

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 four and 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.

Details

By participating in this workshop, you'll find that regardless of students' status as citizens and voters, they can participate fully in all or any of the lessons and approaches shared. And by choosing to implement the curriculum and materials in your classroom, your students will find that they can advocate proactively on behalf of themselves and their communities more effectively.

When

April 17, 2008 from 01:00 pm to 04:30 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
• Adult Literacy Resource Institute/Greater Boston SABES
• Wheatley Building, 4th Floor, Room 04-167
• Umass Boston, 00 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston MA

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Registration Deadline

Apr 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM

Topics

ABE, ESOL, GED, Curriculum Development

Contact info

Andrea Lawless
andrea.lawless@umb.edu
Deborah Schwartz: (617) 287-4072

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: 1. Access Your Taxes, Your Government, Your Choices curriculum and websites with supporting materials. 2. Identify the curriculum sections most suited to their students and programs 3. Be familiarized with he VERA material. 4. Adapt a lesson or unit about taxes and/or voting to use with students.

Presenters

Diana Satin, the tax curriculum presenter has a Masters in Intercultural Relations with a specialization in teaching ESOL. Since 994, she has worked as a classroom teacher, staff development consultant, and curriculum developer.
Kenny Tamarkin, the VERA project presenter is currently the Director of the Massachusetts Coalition of Adult Educators (MCAE).

Prerequisites

NA

Host RSC

Boston Region

PDPs

no