Apprenticeship/Pre-apprenticeship and CTE Pathways Webinar Series: How to Construct Pre-apprenticeship Pathways
Webinar 1: How to Construct Pre-apprenticeship Pathways
Facilitator:
Adele McClain, Administrator for Apple Valley Adult Education School
Come and learn how Apple Valley Adult Education School and its partner community college leveraged each other's strengths to support adult learners' goal achievements through High School Diploma/Career Technical Education articulated courses as well as industry certificates and union-endorsed pre-apprenticeships. When the two agencies put students' needs first, they found increased revenues even in the pandemic. The practices set up during the pandemic helped them to create expanded partnerships in 2021 and beyond. Join us to explore options for your agency!
Collaborative Curriculum Alignment
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.
Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ABE/ASE Classroom
This training provides background to educators for teaching skills transferable from the classroom to the workplace and explicitly teaching how to articulate those skills. The training offers ideas for hands-on application of transferable skills in adult basic education (ABE) and adult secondary education (ASE) classrooms.
Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ESL Classroom
How can you prepare your learners to succeed in the workforce? Find out what employers say are essential skills for today's workforce. This Community of Practice shows you how to connect transferable skills in the English as a Second Language classroom to the workplace. It also offers examples of contextualizing ESL instruction easily by using workplace activities and forms.
Aligning CTE Standards to the CCRS and ELPS
Facilitator: Sudie Whalen, CALPRO
This session uses CALPRO's research to practice approach to demonstrate contextualizing instruction with standards alignment and correspondence. Viewers will learn how to develop lessons that meet Career Technical Education (CTE), College and Career Readiness (CCR), and English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards by learning about the alignment and correlation between the three types of standards.
Adult English Language Learners with Limited Literacy
Authors: Martha Bigelow and Robin Lovrien Schwarz, September 2010Produced by Literacy Information and Communication System/National Institute for LiteracyThis paper reviews a variety of research, including that on language acquisition, literacy development in adults and children, cognition and brain functioning, adult education, and professional development.
Teaching Math Problems at Depth of Knowledge Level 3
These videos feature a variety of excerpts from lessons that address DOK level 3 problems.