Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit
The Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit guides users through a team-based approach to develop customized IET solutions that address the needs of adult learners and local businesses through four iterative phases: Research and Assess, Design and Plan, Develop and Implement, and Evaluate and Improve. Train-the-Trainer materials are also available to support the IET Design process. See the abstract for links.
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!
Retraining Unemployed and Low-skilled Adults
Facilitators:KayLynn Hamilton, Workforce Development Specialist at The Pennsylvania State UniversityFrom career awareness to digital literacy, adult education programs are increasing their efforts to provide opportunities for adults to gain necessary skills for facing an uncertain job market. Join this professional development opportunity to examine tools and techniques for practitioners to include in their practice to support their students, especially when working with adults who may need re-tooling after job displacement or adults entering the job market for the first time. Topics will include career awareness, career goal setting, workforce preparation, and sector focused and integrated instruction.
Middle Skills Job Preparation: The Role of Employability Skills in the Adult Education Setting
How can adult educators integrate employability skills into instruction to support workforce preparation for middle skills jobs? Employability skillsâalso referred to as 21st century workplace skills, soft-skills, or non-cognitive skillsâare needed by our adult education students for readiness and success regardless of the industry or job position. This webinar provides a brief overview of the middle skills jobs landscape, both nationally and in California, and an employability skills framework. The presenter highlights strategies and hands-on resources to connect the needed employability skills for these jobs within adult education settings.
Adult Education Providers and Career Pathways: Insights from Three Cities
Facilitator: Esther Prins and Carol Clymer - Institute for the Study of Adult LiteracyCareer pathways (CP) has become a popular buzzword, but we know little about how adult education providers are integrating CP into their services, how programs are designed, who they serve, what kinds of outcomes they are achieving, and how these are measured. This webinar will present findings from a researcher-practitioner partnership project that mapped the landscape of adult education career pathways in Chicago, Houston, and Miami. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the project included the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy at Penn State, Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition, Houston Center for Literacy, and Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
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.