Transitioning Adult Education Students to Career Pathways: Models that Work
Facilitator: Heide Spruck Wrigley, PhD, Senior Researcher and President of Literacywork InternationalThe coming years will present an interesting challenge for Adult Education in terms of how to prepare students for jobs that pay family-sustaining wages through career pathways. In this webinar, Heide Spruck Wrigley, PhD, Senior Researcher and President of Literacywork International, presented approaches and models that have been used successfully in the field. Each of these have inherent advantages and challenges, but the models can be adapted to meet the needs of different subgroups, including the needs of low-skilled English learners.
Accelerated Learning to Facilitate Career Pathways
This training is framed in the context of developing and sustaining career pathways and focuses on strategies that programs may use to make the rapid attainment of short-term and long-term career goals for students on a particular career path as efficient and effective as possible.
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.
Integrated Education and Training (IET)
This training guides agency teams in creating an action plan for putting into place the necessary foundations for implementing an Integrated Education and Training (IET) model that aligns with the agencyâs IET vision.
Introduction to Designing a Single Set of Shared Learning Objectives for Integrated Education and Training (IET)
This webinar provides an introduction to the elements needed for successful team teaching and, specifically, the development of a single set of integrated learning objectives to guide instruction. IET administrators, ESL and workforce training (CTE) teachers explore approaches and strategies for the planning and successful implementation of integrated programs. The webinar was produced collaboratively by staff from the State Leadership Projects CALPRO and CASAS.
Integrating Academic and Employability Skills in the Adult Education Classroom
Facilitator: Amy DalsimerHow can adult educators develop academic and employability skills simultaneously to help students prepare for work and new careers? Employability skillsâalso referred to as 21st century workplace skills, soft-skills, or non-cognitive skillsâare needed by our adult education students for college and career readiness and success regardless of the industry or job position. This webinar offers an overview of the employability skills framework and highlights helpful tools, strategies and classroom resources adult educators can use to integrate employability skills development into their ABE, ESL or HSE classroom.
Preparing ABE/ASE Students for the 21st Century Workforce
Presenter: Ashley Ruiz, Instructor, Paramount Adult SchoolIn this Instructors Forum Webinar, CALPRO PD Partner Ashley Ruiz shared information and research she gained from attending sessions in the 21st Century Skills strand of the joint COABE and CCAE national conference in April 2011.Ruiz specifically discussed: the demands of the 21st Century Workforce, successful workforce development program structures and models, and ideas and tips for ABE/ASE programs to successfully prepare ABE/ASE students for the 21st Century Workforce.
Contextualizing Workforce Skills in ABE/ASE Instruction
Presenter: Karyn Ruiz, Instructor at Visalia Adult SchoolIn this second Webinar of the Instructors Forum, the presenter demonstrated how to contextualize workforce skills into adult basic education (ABE)/adult secondary education (ASE) instruction. Objectives included identifying skills being taught to students, assisting students to articulate and reflect on what they are learning, and integrating workplace documents and activities into classroom instruction.
Contextualizing Workforce Skills in ESL Instruction
Presenters: Ronna Magy, Professional Development Specialist, and Donna Price, ESL Instructor at San Diego Community College DistrictIn this first Webinar of the Instructors Forum, presenters showcased how to contextualize workforce skills into English as a second language (ESL) instruction. The presenters demonstrated ways to help adult learners articulate transferable skills that they are learning in the classroom to the workplace.