What Teachers Need to Know about the English Language Proficiency Standards
Facilitator: Dave Coleman, ESL Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School District
If 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 University
Federal 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.
Making Program Changes to Address New Math Standards
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 SchoolWith 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.
Guiding ABE Learners toward College and Career Readiness
Presenter: Wendy Heard, Academic Department Chair and Site Technology Coordinator, Burbank Adult SchoolWendy Heard introduces participants to the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, and to Webb's Depth of Knowledge wheel, and provides practice in identifying which depth of knowledge various questions address, with the goal of raising the level of questions that adult students address in order to prepare them for more analytical and evaluative thinking required in postsecondary education and on the job. She also reviews how the CCR math standards are constructed and how they change the traditional approach to math instruction.
Building College and Career Readiness for ESL Learners
Presenters: Lori Howard, ESL teacher, coordinator, author and CASAS Program Specialist Coorinator
Sylvia G. Ramirez, Professor Emeritus at MiraCosta College and teacher educator, author and consultant
In this session, participants were introduced to the College and Career Readiness Standards, and considered how these standards can be applied to ESL instruction. They learned and practiced an approach to unpacking each of the standards by identifying the specific skills addressed, applying the standards to currently used textbooks, and considering what additional activities might be needed to supplement existing texts in order to help ESL learners meet the standards.
Math Instructional Strategies
Facilitator: Leila Rosemberg, Secondary Programs Coordinator, Culver City Adult School.In this session, Leila Rosemberg, Coordinator of the Adult Secondary program at Culver City Adult School, discusses the National Research Council Math Standards and the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education. She provides numerous examples of math activities that relate to the standards, as well as ways of addressing math anxiety.
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.
Unpacking the CCRS
Facilitator: Dave Coleman, ESL Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School District
This video provides a brief tutorial on how to unpack the College and Career Readiness Standards. This process can be used to unpack any standards including, but not limited to, the English Language Proficiency Standards.
Applying the English Language Proficiency Standards
Facilitator: Dave Coleman, ESL Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School District
This webinar will assists 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 provides vignettes and case studies and gives you participants the opportunity to share your their own strategies.
What Teachers Need to Know about the English Language Proficiency Standards
Facilitator: Dave Coleman, ESL Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School District
This webinar provides ESL teachers the opportunity to interact with the guiding principles of the new English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and consider how they apply to their teaching. The presenter explains the ELP Standards are organized and how teachers can provide scaffolding for their students to help them meet these rigorous requirements.