Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ESL Classroom, Session II. Contextualized Instructional Strategies (Part 1, Online)
Workshop Description : How can you integrate and contextualize your instruction? Find out what contextualized instruction is and how it benefits your learners to succeed in the workforce. This session offers examples of contextualizing ESL instruction easily by using workplace activities and forms.Note: you must have completed Session I before attending Session II. Session I is offered online, in two parts, on May 14 and 16, 2024.This is the first of a two-part online workshop in real time. Part 2 of Session II takes place on Thursday, May 30, 2024, from 4:00 - 5:30 pm. Participants must attend both parts; certificates of attendance will be provided to participants who attend both parts. However, you must only register once (for Part 1). System requirements: to participate in this training, you will need access to a computer with a high-speed Internet connection and a headset (or speakers) to hear the presenter.Goals :The goal of Session II is to provide hands-on application of transferable skills that can be taught in the classroom and transferred to the workplace.Registration Information :CALPRO professional development opportunities are available to all California Adult Education Program (CAEP) agencies, employees, and consortia members.Contact Information :Please contact CALPRO at calpro@air.org or call 916-286-8803 for more information.
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.
Evidence-Based Writing Instruction in the ESL Classroom
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.
Managing the ESL Multilevel Class
It can be challenging for instructors to provide level-appropriate, engaging instruction for all students in an ESL Multilevel class. At the completion of this Community of Practice, participants will embrace the ESL Multilevel class and facilitate level-appropriate, engaging instruction for all students.
Mastering the English Language Proficiency Standards
ESL instructors can benefit from familiarity with and reliance on the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards for Adult Education (AE) to guide instruction toward the increased rigor and skills necessary for successful transition to work or to postsecondary training or further education and for participation in communities that adult learners need.
Optimizing ESL Instructional Planning: Management, Monitoring, and Reflection
This training presents an optimal process for instructional planning, through management, monitoring, and reflection. The CoP supports participants in integrating the research-based strategies and activities into their instructional practices and offers further suggestions for using this process in the ESL classroom.
Supporting Immigrant Integration through Civics Education
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.
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.
What Teachers Need to Know about the English Language Proficiency Standards
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.
Increasing Rigor in the ESL and Basic Skills Classroom
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.