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Subject: ABE,GED
Region: southeast
Description: Teaching learners the process of writing a persuasive essay can be rewarding as well as challenging. During this workshop you will learn strategies to help your learners to use logic and reason to persuade the reader to adopt a certain point of view or take a particular action. Cathy Coleman will present you with useful tips and hands on techniques. She will help you to develop methodologies that will help your learners to write excellent persuasive essays. You will leave this workshop prepared to improve learner’s persuasive writing strategies that will help them understand how to use sound reasoning and solid evidence by stating facts, giving logical reasons and using examples.
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Subject: SMARTT
Region: northeast
Description: This is a SMARTT open lab focusing on your mid-year data such as attendance and goals issues. Please bring any questions you might have about this topic. Please know your user id and password
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Work Force Development
Region: boston
Description: This 2-part participative workshop is an excellent opportunity for teachers and counselors from programs to learn together about the career planning process which will motivate students by providing them with the tools and information to reach their career and employment goals. Receive and learn how to use the new SABES Career Awareness Curriculum which is related to the MA Curriculum ELA, Math and ESOL Frameworks strands and standards and was developed for use in ABE and ESOL classrooms and programs. We will demo some practical and easy to use online career exploration and employment resources you can use with your students. Attendance at both workshop sessions is required. You will be able to try out activities in your program between the first and second sessions.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Work Force Development
Region: southeast
Description: Workers may not always understand where, when, with whom and how to file a complaint against an employer who has violated his/her rights on the job. Lauren Goldman, an attorney with the Office of the Attorney General will walk participants through the process of filing a complaint with her office. She will also define what constitutes a violation of worker’s rights such as non-payment of wages, paid breaks and other worker violations. By attending this informative workshop you will be able to help your learners become more pro-active when it comes to their rights on the job.
Subject: Technology
Region: southeast
Description: This workshop will delve into some of the powerful features of Excel: formulas, charts, sorting, protection, and more. We will also review the 'Summary Page' methodology of building 'smart' worksheets.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development
Region: boston
Description: ...Fractions can be fun-- come join us to discover how! Stop fractions from frazzling you and befuddling your students! Come to a three-session math for literacy teachers series "Fun with Fractions, Decimals and Percents," where you will collaborate in pairs and groups to picture, write about and discuss the ways we represent, use and operate with fractions, decimals and percents.
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Subject: ESOL,Assessment
Region: southeast
Description: The BEST Plus training is for practitioners who will be administering and scoring the BEST Plus oral proficiency assessment for ESOL learners. This hands-on training covers all aspects of how to administer and score the BEST Plus computer-adaptive oral interview. For staff at DOE-funded ESOL programs only
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling,Other Curriculum & Instruction,SMARTT,Technology,Trainings for Directors
Region: northeast
Description: The Massachusetts DESE Goal Setting Policy gives us the opportunity to report many student successes such as "Get a learner's permit to drive", that are significant accomplishments for our students. This workshop has been updated to include information on the newest list of student goals now found on the student intake form, the current performance standards, and available resources and is designed to help teachers, directors, counselors, and other program staff understand and implement the Countable Outcomes Policy.
Subject: Technology
Region: central
Description: CMA SABES will be offering staff development activities through web conferencing (Wimba). Wimba enables educators and students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online at their own personal computers, engage in live chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to text-based content, and more.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: southeast
Description: Understand and teach fractions, decimals, and percents using collaborative, hands-on methods that appeal to multiple intelligences. Deepen your appreciation for the ways we represent and problem solve with the ‘rational’ numbers known as fractions. Erase fears and anxieties about numbers. Enjoy the company of colleagues and new perspectives on familiar topics. Come, learn, and grow with SE SABES skilled presenters and facilitators. Increase your own problem solving competence as you explore math content areas, and build your confidence as you learn new multi-sensory teaching strategies that are both creative and fun! Join the movement to improve math understanding. Join the movement to improve student possibilities within the family, community, and workplace.
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Subject: SMARTT,Technology
Region: west
Description: This update focuses on attendance, goals and enrollment changes.
Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: southeast
Description: In this 4.5-hour training, administrators explore personal beliefs and visions and methods for gathering relevant information for decision-making. They also consider larger issues affecting adult education to analyze the impediments to progress and ways to influence positive changes regarding those issues. The training is not designed as a ‘how to achieve a particular model of leadership’ training, but rather as an open forum in which to explore various aspects of educational leadership and each director’s vision for education within his/her program.
Subject: Technology,Trainings for Directors
Region: west
Description: Participants will delve more into cubes, My Favorites, and performance reports.
Subject: Technology
Region: central
Description: CMA SABES will be offering staff development activities through web conferencing (Wimba). Wimba enables educators and students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online at their own personal computers, engage in live chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to text-based content, and more.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Assessment,Community Planning,Counseling,Curriculum Development,Other Curriculum & Instruction,Learning Disabilities,Licensure,New Staff Orientation,Share Group,SMARTT,Technology,Trainings for Directors
Region: central
Description: This 4.5 hour training is designed to identify the knowledge, develop the skills, and demonstrate the strategies that ABE directors need to be effective community leaders. The workshop can benefit all administrators, though less experienced directors will likely find the materials most useful. In this training, the main foci are: the ABE director's or administrator's role as a leader within the community where their program operates and how to maximize potential for the program by forming productive relationships with diverse community members. Fundraising initiatives will also be covered.
Subject: SMARTT
Region: central
Description: Focus: Mid Year Data
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Work Force Development
Region: boston
Description: This 2-part participative workshop is an excellent opportunity for teachers and counselors from programs to learn together about the career planning process which will motivate students by providing them with the tools and information to reach their career and employment goals. Receive and learn how to use the new SABES Career Awareness Curriculum which is related to the MA Curriculum ELA, Math and ESOL Frameworks strands and standards and was developed for use in ABE and ESOL classrooms and programs. We will demo some practical and easy to use online career exploration and employment resources you can use with your students. Attendance at both workshop sessions is required. You will be able to try out activities in your program between the first and second sessions.
Subject: Technology
Region: central
Description: Intermediate COGNOS
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Community Planning,Counseling,Trainings for Directors,Work Force Development
Region: northeast
Description: Whether adult learners’ "next step goal”, beyond their ABE/ESOL class, is attaining a credential, getting or advancing in a job, gaining additional job training or going on to college, ABE Programs can play a major role in supporting them and teaching them the skills they need to take positive next steps.
Subject: SMARTT,Technology
Region: west
Description: This update focuses on attendance, goals and enrollment changes.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,Counseling
Region: west
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Subject: Technology,Trainings for Directors
Region: west
Description: Participants will delve more into cubes, My Favorites, and performance reports.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development
Region: boston
Description: ...Fractions can be fun-- come join us to discover how! Stop fractions from frazzling you and befuddling your students! Come to a three-session math for literacy teachers series "Fun with Fraction, Decimals and Percents," where you will collaborate in pairs and in groups to picture, write about and discuss the ways we represent, use and operate with fractions, decimals and percents.
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Subject: Assessment,Curriculum Development
Region: northeast
Description: This two-session workshop will provide teachers, new to GED teaching and testing, with 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 teaching a GED class, tips on preparing students for the GED essay, as well as hands-on practice with the official GED calculator.
Subject: GED,Curriculum Development
Region: statewide
Description: Overview
This two-session workshop will provide teachers, new to GED teaching and testing, with 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 teaching 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: Share Group,Trainings for Directors
Region: northeast
Description: The Program and Staff Development process is an important mechanism to help ABE practitioners improve curriculum development, teaching strategies and methodologies, and program management with the ultimate goal of enhancing services to adult learners in programs. Come talk with other programs about staff development initiatives, training needs and ways to "re-energize" the hard working practitioners in your program.
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Subject: Technology
Region: west
Description: Participants will have hands on experience with more advanced functions in MS Word.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development
Region: northeast
Description: This Teacher to Teacher (T2T) session follows the two previous sessions in Math Series One, entitled "Fun with Fractions (Decimals and Percents)". T2T is open to all practitioners - whether you attended the previous two workshops or not. Come and share student work, activities, and lessons in numeracy with fellow teachers of all levels.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: central
Description: What is critical thinking? Why do we thing our students need it? Assuming we can all agree on the answers to those questions, how do we teach it?
In this combination of face-to-face workshop and on-line support, participants will clarify their definitions of critical thinking. We will examine our own assumptions about our students, identify areas we believe they lack critical thinking as well as areas where they possess it in large measure. We will examine where and how critical thinking can be “taught.” We will examine model lesson plans which teachers will be able to use or adapt for their classrooms, as well as resources for finding others. We will also discuss, classify, and practice the kinds of questioning that can be woven into daily practice to increase students’ depth of thought. To encourage participants to use and share their experiences with the techniques and activities presented, the workshop will be followed by on-line support.
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Subject: ESOL,Technology
Region: central
Description: We all know ESOL learners who we suspect may have learning disabilities and many programs seek to have learners tested. In this webinar, Robin Lovrien Schwarz will summarize her recently completed research on the findings on the issue of direct testing of ESOL learners for learning disabilities. In response to these issues, Robin will briefly review factors that cause ESOL learners to struggle in learning and appear to have a learning disability. Practice has shown that when these factors are addressed in program policies and instruction, many fewer learners will be suspected of having learning disabilities.
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Subject: New Staff Orientation
Region: central
Description: This orientation offers a broad introduction to the world of adult education, its practices and resources. You should attend this training if you have worked in an adult education program for less than one year, or if you have never received a comprehensive introduction to adult education. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education requires all staff NEW to Adult Basic Education to participate in 15 hours of orientation training.
Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: boston
Description: We invite program directors in the Greater Boston region to join colleagues to discuss approaches to supporting, motivating, empowering, and supervising their teachers and other staff.
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Subject: Share Group,Volunteer Coordinators
Region: southeast
Description: This is the first in a series of three (3) volunteer coordinator share group meetings that Marianne LeGuyader will be facilitating. This is the ideal opportunity for Volunteer Coordinators to get together to share ideas, voice concerns and support each other on the vital work you perform.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Technology
Region: central
Description: Session I - Familiarity with the research on adult learner persistence is necessary if we are to plan actions in our programs to effectively support our learners. During this conversation Lennox will review pertinent research to lay our foundation.
If you are unfamiliar with the research this session is a prerequisite for attending session two. If you have already attended a persistence study circle or workshop this session will refresh your familiarity with the research and introduce you to the perspective of Dr. Lennox McLendon. Readings in preparation for the conversation will be mailed/emailed to participants.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: southeast
Description: Understand and teach fractions, decimals, and percents using collaborative, hands-on methods that appeal to multiple intelligences. Deepen your appreciation for the ways we represent and problem solve with the ‘rational’ numbers known as fractions. Erase fears and anxieties about numbers. Enjoy the company of colleagues and new perspectives on familiar topics. Come, learn, and grow with SE SABES skilled presenters and facilitators. Increase your own problem solving competence as you explore math content areas, and build your confidence as you learn new multi-sensory teaching strategies that are both creative and fun! Join the movement to improve math understanding. Join the movement to improve student possibilities within the family, community, and workplace.
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Subject: Trainings for Directors
Region: northeast
Description: ABE administrators wear many hats in their work. One hat they must wear is that of organizational leader. Others will look to them to set the stage for change and to guide required changes as well as innovative changes that improve services and the working environment, yet may not be mandated. In this six-hour training, ABE administrators consider five main topics: 1. the difference between management and leadership 2. personal leadership style 3. visions and plans for ABE programs 4. the process of managing change, and 5. leadership challenges and opportunities
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: west
Description: On both the GED and the Accuplacer, math is the primary impediment to success. This workshop will look at the specific skill sets needed for success on the GED as well as how the Accuplacer math test differs from the GED. Participants will also discuss ways to create a GED math curriculum that will also prepare students for success on the math Accuplacer.
This is a panel presentation by four teachers, both “newer” and those with experience, on issues relating to teaching in the Adult Basic Education field. Teachers will represent both the ESOL and ABE fields.
Subject: Technology
Region: central
Description: CMA SABES will be offering staff development activities through web conferencing (Wimba). Wimba enables educators and students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online at their own personal computers, engage in live chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to text-based content, and more.
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Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED
Region: central
Description: TBA
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: west
Description: How do we create or enhance conditions in ABE programs that help to increase learner persistence? This workshop will give you practical ideas to use in your classrooms and programs as well as look at the concept of self-efficacy and its impact on our students.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: boston
Description: ...Fractions can be fun--come join us to discover how! Stop fractions from frazzling you and befuddling your students! Come to a three-session math for literacy teachers series "Fun with Fractions, Decimals and Percents," where you will collaborate in pairs and groups to picture, write about and discuss the ways we represent, use and operate with fractions and decimals and percents.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development
Region: northeast
Description: Responding to the increasing concern to provide a “bridge to college” math, current GED level classes need expanding opportunities in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Using a math bundle developed by TIAN, (Teachers Investigating Adult Numeracy) participants will explore algebra connections using physical models to find patterns and to get at the algebra of “realistic” situations.
Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Other Curriculum & Instruction
Region: west
Description: Learn how to incorporate theater activities into your classroom and program activities.
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Subject: Assessment,Curriculum Development
Region: northeast
Description: This two-session workshop will provide teachers, new to GED teaching and testing, with 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 teaching a GED class, tips on preparing students for the GED essay, as well as hands-on practice with the official GED calculator.
Subject: GED,Curriculum Development
Region: statewide
Description: Overview
This two-session workshop will provide teachers, new to GED teaching and testing, with 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 teaching 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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ASE Teacher's Group -- Session 2 -- Persuasive Writing (SE) CANCELED