California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project

Description :
This self-directed course supports independent professional development; there is no facilitator nor other participants. This course provides each individual the opportunity to learn through a variety of videos, readings, and activities. Sign up now and access the class for 3 months. There is no official start or end date to worry about.

Many adult education classrooms contain students whose ages, native languages, educational backgrounds, and academic skills vary widely, which poses many teaching challenges for instructors. Research shows that differentiated instruction is one of the most effective approaches for helping students learn. This course walks participants through the steps of planning a differentiated lesson, including how to write effective learning objectives, choose among approaches to differentiation (content, process, product), and design assessments. In completing the course, participants produce their own differentiated lesson plans that are suited to their instructional content and environment. The estimated course completion time is 5 hours.

Enrollment verification with Moodle login information will be sent to registrants within one business day of registration.

Registration Information:
This course is free of charge to all California adult education programs.

Contact Information:
Please contact CALPRO at calprohelp@air.org or at 916-286-8803 for more information.

To enhance student learning gains and to help adult learners meet their goals as productive workers, family and community members, and lifelong learners, and to foster continuous program improvement, this training will provide a framework for teachers to reflect on their own teaching and to identify areas on which they would like to focus and where they would like to improve their practice.

California is a state of immigrants, and benefits from the cultural, social, and economic contributions they confer to systems, communities, and our state as a whole. Adult education plays a significant role in the lives of immigrants. This CoP/Training will support educators in best serving immigrants through civics instruction understood within the lens of the California Immigrant Integration Initiative and aligned to approved English language learner (ELL) Civics metrics.

This training outlines the process of curriculum alignment to help adult learners successfully transition within adult education programs and from adult education to post-secondary environments.

Increasing reading, writing, and oral communication skills enough to succeed in job training, job promotions, and postsecondary education requires persistence. Research reveals numerous strategies that can make a difference. This training examines nine of these strategies and offers adult educators the opportunity to practice and internalize them.

This training supports teachers to develop questioning strategies that foster higher-level thinking skills in their students.

This training provides an in-depth exploration of the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and how to align what occurs in the classroom with these standards. to support teachers, administrators, and programs as they work to implement and align with the CCRS.

This COP is focused on writing instruction for intermediate and advanced-level English as a second language (ESL) students. The information provided in this training is intended to guide teachers of these adult learning communities to prepare and deliver instruction, including appropriate instructional supports that promote student achievement.