Subject: Counseling

Description: Learn a variety of advising techniques taht incorporate career and life planning. Academic advising and, more specifically, life and career planning, is a critical factor in enrolling and retaining adult students. Unlike many traditional students, adults want to know how their academic work is going to align with their career and life plans. You can view the archive of this event. You'll also find the original presentation materials, question and answer log and additonal resources provided by the presenters at http://www.sabes.org/central/wimba.htm Academic Impressions is making the archive available only until 2/14/2010. Please fill out the workshop registration to register at this link before viewing the session. This archive is available until 2/14/2010. Please register from this page before viewing the session.

Subject: Technology

Description: Focus: Intermediate COGNOS Skills

Subject: SMARTT

Description: Focus: Reviewing your mid-year data.

Subject: ESOL

Description: The workshop is intended for ESOL practitioners who are teaching in a classroom in which the learners are functioning at varying levels of proficiency. The participants will discuss diversity issues and how they impact learning. Strategies will be presented which enable learners to participate and learn at their own level. Participants will be introduced to various learner groupings and the three basic elements of a teaching activity and how different combinations of these factors can be used in multilevel activities.

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.

Subject: GED

Description: Post-secondary education is necessary to earn a family-sustaining wage. For many of our students, the GED diploma is the first step. Unfortunately, GED grads face another barrier to post-secondary education: the ACCUPLACER. Because of a poor performance on the ACCUPLACER, far too many GED graduates find themselves in college developmental courses from which they never emerge. On both tests the math portion is the primary impediment. This workshop will first explain the specific skill sets necessary for success on the GED math test. It will then demonstrate the important ways that the ACCUPLACER math test differs from its GED counterpart and will introduce the beginnings of a coherent GED/ACCUPLACER/College math curriculum.

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.