This page provides links to videos relevant to adult educators in California. The goal of this video library is to increase individual adult educators' access to professional development on emerging priority topics. You can browse the videos by audience or topic and view videos specific to applicable CALPRO virtual workrooms.
Facilitator: Dave Coleman, ESL Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School District
This webinar will assist ESL teachers in exploring how the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) are related to the College and Career Readiness Standards, how to make use of two different approaches to the ELPS, and how to apply them in the classroom. The presenter will provide vignettes and case studies, and give you the opportunity to share your own strategies.
Facilitator: Dave Coleman, ESL Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School DistrictIf you are and ESL teacher or a teacher from another program area with English language learners in your class, attend this webinar to interact with the guiding principles of the new English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and consider how they apply to your teaching. See how the ELP Standards are organized and how you can provide scaffolding for your students to help them meet these rigorous requirements.
Facilitator: Betsy Parrish, Professor/Coordinator TEFL/Adult ESL, Hamline UniversityFederal funding for adult education and College and Career Readiness Standards are two of the signposts pointing us towards increasing the rigor of instruction in adult education to help learners reach their education and career goals. Betsy Parrish is a national expert on increasing rigor in adult education classrooms. She has published articles on the topic and created many training materials for teachers. In this webinar, she will discuss the significance of increasing rigor, and she will provide several examples of classroom activities for embedding instruction in academic language, higher order reading and listening strategies, organizational and note-taking strategies, and critical thinking at every level from beginning to advanced. This session is appropriate for ESL, ABE and ASE instructors.
Facilitator: Anna Pilloton, Director of Outreach and Community Partnerships at the College of Marin
What do your students need to know about transferring to a community college, or from nonâcredit classes to credit? What options do they have in terms of cost? What are the different pathways they should consider for their future? What support services are available to them once they are enrolled, and how should they go about finding what they need? This webinar will take you on a guided tour of the community college resources and services.
Facilitator: Marie Doerner, Learning Disability Specialist, San Diego Community College District Continuing Education
Auditory processing disorder, dyscalculia, dyslexia: what does it all mean? Students with learning disabilities have average or above average intelligence, but some area of their learning has major deficits. This webinar reviews the most common forms of learning disabilities and suggests strategies for supporting and instructing students.
Facilitator: Marie Doerner, Learning Disability Specialist, San Diego Community College District Continuing Education
This webinar provides adult education instructors with an overview of learning disabilities and then offers practical strategies for the classroom that will meet the needs of all learners as well as specifically addressing those with learning disabilities.
Facilitators: Patsy Vinogradov, Ph.D, Director of Professional Development for Adult Education in Minnesota, and Amy Vickers, M.Ed., ABE Instructional Leader and Math SpecialistHow can we support English Language Learners (ELLs) as they learn numeracy? Does that happen in "math" class or in "English" class? ABE/ASE/HSE math teachers (who often teach math conceptually) and ESL teachers (who often teach math contextually, within life-skills topics) have much to learn from each other. This webinar shares a model that draws on the strengths of teachers with varied areas of expertise to better serve multilingual learners.
Facilitator: Guillermo Verdin, ABE Instructor, Los Angeles Unified School District Division of Adult and Career EducationWhether you are a new teacher or have been teaching for many years, you may have questions about the most effective teaching strategies for assisting adult learners to become independent readers. This webinar gives you an overview of the four areas of reading instruction, and an in-depth look at a model lesson on summarizing as an aspect of reading comprehension.
Facilitator: Guillermo Verdin, ABE Instructor, Los Angeles Unified School District Division of Adult and Career EducationDo your learners struggle with writing assignments? Not sure how to engage them in the writing process? Wondering how to integrate direct, explicit instruction into your writing lessons? This webinar reviews the practice of direct, explicit instruction and then models teaching a lesson using that approach to teach a writing lesson using writing frames.
Facilitators: Raine Bumatay, ABE, ASE, and ESL Program Administrator, Fresno Adult School; Evelyn Lenton, ASE Program Coordinator, Antelope Valley Adult School; and Tricia Ouellette, Academic Program Coordinator, Mt. Diablo Adult School
With the introduction of GED 2014 and the College and Career Readiness Standards, math requirements for ABE and High School Equivalency learners have become more rigorous. In this webinar, three academic program coordinators discuss how they have revamped their instructional programs to better address the new standards and meet learner needs. Strategies include professional development, creating new curriculum, changing class schedules, and assigning specific math teachers. Hear how they made these changes, what the results look like so far, and lessons learned; the webinar concludes with a question-and-answer period.
