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Title:
NRS Online
Provider:
Operated by American Institutes for Research, funded by
U.S. Department of Education
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime |
Description:
NRS Online is the training site for the National
Reporting System for adult education (NRS). This site includes
online training courses designed for adult education program
administrators that explain NRS requirements and courses
designed to improve the quality of NRS data collection. You can
also use this site as a reference source for the NRS.
Courses include:
What is the NRS, Using NRS Data, Introduction and Overview of
Data Quality, Quality Data: What Good Data Matter, The
Data Collection Process, Assessment: Measuring Educational
Gain, Intake and Goal Setting, Follow-Up Measures:
Employment, GED, and Post-Secondary Education, Local Staff
Training, The State Role in Data Quality, Introduction: A
Model for Using Data for Program Management and Improvement,
Identifying Issues and Problems, Developing Measurable
Questions, Developing an Analysis Plan, Analyzing and
Interpreting Data, Developing a Plan for Change, Implementing
Change, and Evaluating the Change.
URL:
http://www.oei-tech.com/nrs/ |
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Title:
Making Evaluation Work for Your Program
Provider:
National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime |
Description:
This course is primarily directed at those program directors and
staff who are new to program evaluation in adult and family
literacy. You will learn the basics of program evaluation and
take away an evaluation framework to use in your adult or family
literacy program. The importance of program evaluation to a
variety of different audiences, including program staff, will be
explained throughout the course.
URL:
http://216.26.175.237/index.cfm?cRef=VLU116&cLoc=data |
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Title:
Evaluating
GED Programs
Provider:
FloridaTechNet, funded by Florida Adult Education
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description: This web-based training component has been designed to
provide you with some basic information on the evaluation of GED
programs. Although you may not be ready to be a part of
the Auditor Generals staff when you are finished, you will know
the basics about:
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How to use
program data to determine student achievement levels
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How to
evaluate teacher performance
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How to
review program data before a state audit to minimize any areas
of concern
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How to
review your facility to ensure it meets codes and standards
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How to use
the data and information to make changes
URL:
http://www.floridatechnet.org/inservice/wbt4/ |
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Adult
Education Orientation |
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Title:
A Roadmap to Implementing Adult Basic Education Programs
Provider:
FloridaTechNet, funded by Florida Adult Education
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description:
This training will take you through the steps necessary to more
effectively implement Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Workplace
Readiness Programs and will provide you with information on:
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The
history of Adult Basic Education
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The
adult learner
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Teaching
and learning styles
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Student
eligibility, assessment, and accountability
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Student
services including recruitment, intake, orientation,
retention, and follow-up
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Curriculum frameworks and course progression
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Staff
development
URL:
http://www.floridatechnet.org/inservice/abe/ |
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Title:
Strategies for Building Learning Communities
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
$24.95
Access:
Any time |
Description:
Research has shown that creating learning
communities or "cohorts" within the classroom helps students to
persist in achieving their goals. In this course you will
examine how learners differ developmentally and learn strategies
for creating community among students.
URL:
http://www.newreaderspress.com/default.aspx?cat=prof&hid=300&pid=PLASE20 |
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The Adult Learner
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Title:
Understanding
the Adult Basic Education Student
Provider:
FloridaTechNet, funded by Florida Adult Education
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description:
This web-based training will provide you with information and
resources that will help you better understand the ABE (Adult
Basic Education) student. If you want to be effective in helping
your students achieve their goals, it is important that you know
about a variety of aspects regarding the adult student.
Everything that you say, do, or write can
impact whether or not the ABE student is comfortable and
productive in your classroom. Every student is different. Every
student comes to you with unique needs and abilities. It is up
to you to recognize these needs and abilities and assist your
students in achieving their goals.
URL:
http://www.floridatechnet.org/inservice/abe/abestudent/ |
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Authentic Contexts
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Title:
Overview of Critical
Practices
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time |
Description:
If you've been waiting for a user-friendly
way to dip into critical pedagogy, this is it. This self-study
is a starting point to developing a theoretical background on
critical pedagogy. Learn to what extent education programs
reflect critical pedagogy in their structure and practices and
analyze your own practices for the degrees of critical pedagogy
across six elements of an adult education program.
URL: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=800 |
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Title:
Philosophy of Using
Authentic Curriculum
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time |
Description:
A curriculum is a guide for learning.
Everyone who chooses or creates curriculum (or textbooks) needs
to develop a personal philosophy of teaching and learning,
examine the values and beliefs behind that philosophy, and
design or select a curriculum that reflects those beliefs and
values. Compare three approaches to curriculumtraditional,
learner-driven, and criticaland begin to articulate your own
philosophy of teaching and curriculum development.
URL: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=801 |
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Title:
Using Authentic
Curriculum and Materials
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time |
Description:
The team of researchers led by Victoria
Purcell-Gates found that adult literacy instruction is more
effective if teachers use materials and activities that adults
actually encounter in their daily lives. This course will
encourage you to work collaboratively with your students to
identify a topic for a lesson that uses authentic materials and
activities. You will be using the handbook, Creating
Authentic Materials and Activities for the Adult Literacy
Classroom, as a guide in moving toward contextualized
literacy instruction.
URL: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1068 |
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Title:
Building
Teacher/Learner Collaborations
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time |
Description:
In coding the data for the Literacy
Practices of Adult Learners study, the researchers found that
the learners themselves were attributing changes in literacy
practice to life changes, such as changes in employment, living
situations, family situations/children, and health. Explore the
social nature of your learners' literacy practices and how those
practices may change from the beginning of instruction. Develop
a strategy for collaborating with learners to identify a topic
on which to build instructional activities.
URL: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1069 |
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Distance Learning
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Title:
Distance 101: Planning for Distance Education
Provider:
Project IDEAL
Cost:
free to member states of Project Ideal, including North
Carolina
Access:
Contact Katie Waters (919-807-7136)
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Description:
8 weeks duration, 2-3 hours per week
This online
course is intended for teachers and administrators who are
already skilled at delivering classroom-based adult education.
It contains a variety of exercises to help educators through the
reinvention process. Each exercise provides a structured
opportunity to reflect on four aspects of distance delivery
recruitment, orientation, teaching, and assessment and develop
strategies to handle each one. Pursued over a 6-8 week
period, the course can help educators prepare for their new
roles. The course is designed with several instructional
products in mind:
Crossroads Cafi, GED Connection, PLATO, Skills Tutor, and
Workplace Essential Skills. These are the products
that the Project IDEAL consortium is using in its current
experiments with distance education. But the principles
apply to teaching almost any product at a distance. Teachers who
complete D101 are eligible for 2.4 C.E.U.s from the University
of Michigan.
The Support
Center provides each member state with everything they need to
offer online professional development to their teachers: a
special website, a "textbook", a curriculum, a study guide for
participants, and a guide for those who will facilitate the
course. The Center provides ongoing support to each
state's facilitator, ranging from training in the use of the
website to mentoring each trainer during the time they
facilitate the course. Every summer the Center provides a
workshop for trainers from every member state. Here they
can refine their techniques for building a virtual community of
distance teachers.
URL:
Contact Katie Waters for information. |
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Title:
Distance 102: Study Groups
Provider:
Project IDEAL
Cost:
free to member states of Project Ideal, including North
Carolina
Access:
Contact Katie Waters (919-807-7136)
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Description:
4
weeks duration, 2-3 hours per week
This second
PD course is for teachers with one year experience teaching at a
distance. Having mastered the mechanics of distance
education, teachers are ready to think in a more focused way
about pedagogy. Each participant develops a case study of
a difficult pedagogical problem. The essence of the study
group is having participants examine the cases one at a time,
practicing the art of asking questions that probe the nature of
the problem and identifying strategies to deal with the
learner's difficulties. Teachers who complete D102 are
eligible for 1.8 C.E.U.s from the University of Michigan.
URL:
Contact Katie Waters for information. |
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Title:
TV411 for ESL Instructors
Provider:
National Center on Adult Literacy
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description:
This training
module is a resource for professional developers who want to
help adult education programs implement
TV411 effectively. The module, meant to be a one-day
training for ESL instructors of intermediate and advanced
students, contains:
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Information about TV411
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Information about training goals and necessary
material
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A listing of the principles that guided the
development of the module
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An annotated agenda
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Workshop activities and implementation models
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Possible roadblocks
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Reflection and evaluation activities
URL:
http://www.literacy.org/tm_tv411/index.html |
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Title:
ESOL Teacher Training Video
Provider:
Developed by Center for Literacy
Studies and Tennessee Adult Education
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Description: This
26-minute teacher training video was produced to provide new ESL
teachers with background on the needs, wants, and issues of
non-English speaking learners. The video includes a
variety of teaching strategies and techniques proposed by
veteran ESL teachers in Tennessee.
URL:
http://cls.coe.utk.edu:8080/ramgen/esol-teacher-training-01.rm
Cost: free
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Title:
ESL/CivicsLink
Provider: Developed jointly by PBS Adult Learning Service;
The National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL) at the University
of Pennsylvania; Jefferson County Public Schools Adult and
Continuing Education, Louisville, Kentucky; and
KLRN-TV, San Antonio, Texas.
Access:
anytime |
Description:
ESL/CivicsLink is an online
professional development system for adult education ESL
teachers. Developed by adult educators for adult educators and
tested in the field, this web-based product is managed by
Kentucky Educational Television and prepares teachers to do the
following:
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teach
English to speakers of other languages,
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enhance
cross-cultural awareness, and
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integrate
English literacy instruction and civics education.
The ESL/CivicsLink online professional development
system...
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covers core
issues in teaching ESL and civics.
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encourages
active engagement through project-based learning.
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works for
small group study with peer mentoring, and with both
facilitated and non-facilitated models.
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provides
customized portfolios in which teachers save journal entries,
lesson plans, project work and resources.
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provides
teachers with a collaboration tool via threaded discussions.
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includes
relevant online and offline resources.
URL:
http://eslcivicslink.literacy.upenn.edu/about/main.xml
Cost:
Individual license: $89.95
Full access for one teacher for six months.
Organization license: $800
Full access for up to 10 teachers at one site for one year.
Please call KET at (800) 354-9067 to ask about multiple-site
discounts.
Statewide
license: prices vary
Please call KET at (800) 354-9067 for more information.
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Title:
Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program
Provider:
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Access:
scheduled, check website
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Description:
TESOL's "Principles and Practices of Online Teaching"
certificate program is designed for the experienced and the
inexperienced online English Language Teacher and course
designer. Whether you design and deliver courses that are fully
or partially run online, the "Principles and Practices of Online
Teaching" program will help develop the skills you need to
effectively teach English Language courses online or blend
online segments with your traditional face-to-face courses.
"Principles and Practices of Online Teaching" consists of
certificate foundation and completion courses, and ten courses
in general and content-specific topics.
To earn the certificate of
completion of the program, participants must successfully pass
the certificate foundation and completion courses (PP 100 and PP
200), two of the content courses, and two of the general online
teaching courses.
Teaching professionals who
are primarily interested in improving their online teaching
skills and not in attaining the certificate can enroll in the
courses they want. With the exception of PP 200, which has
prerequisites (PP 100, two content and two general online
teaching courses), there are no prerequisites for other courses.
URL:
http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/ppcp/index.htm
Cost:
Certificate PreparationPackage:
This package includes registration for PP 100, two content and
two general online teaching courses. Note: To earn the
certificate participants will have to also complete PP 200.
Package is $775 for TESOL
members and $1,325 for nonmembers.
Individual
courses: The registration fee for individual courses is $175 per
course for TESOL members and $285 per course for nonmembers.
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Title:
TESOLs Online Academies
Provider:
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Cost:
$239
for TESOL members and $319 for nonmembers
Access:
scheduled, check website |
Description:
TESOL offers a variety of online workshops throughout the
year. Past topics have included Using Internet Tools to
Effectively Work with Beginning ESL/EFL, Teaching Writing
Online, and Enhancing Online Communities with Voice and Webcams.
CEUs are available through the University
of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
URL:
http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/academies.html#w1
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Title:
Culture and English Language Learners
Provider:
National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime |
Description:
This course examines different dimensions of culture relevant to
the learning context, including both the personal cultures of
learners and educators and the culture of the larger social
political environment. It explores how cultural values influence
instruction and looks at several teaching approaches that take
culture into account.
URL:
http://216.26.175.237/index.cfm?cRef=VLU108&cLoc=data
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Title:
English for All
Provider:
National Center on Adult Literacy
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description:
This training module is a resource for professional developers
who want to help teachers implement English For All effectively.
The module, intended as a six-hour training for ESL instructors,
contains:
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Information about about English For All
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Information about training goals and necessary
material
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A listing of the principles that guided the
development of the module
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An annotated agenda
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Workshop activities, including a lesson
demonstration and website tour
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Sample lesson plans
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Discussion of potential roadblocks to
implementation
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Reflection and evaluation activities
URL:
http://www.literacy.org/tm_efa/index.html
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Family Literacy |
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Title:
Introducing Family Literacy to Adult Learners
Provider:
California Department of Education, Adult Education Office
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime |
Description:
Introducing
Family Literacy to Adult Learners offers a variety of interactive features that includes
audios of instructors and learners participating in an actual
family literacy lesson. The following content areas are
covered in this course:
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defining family
literacy with
four components
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integrating family literacy into adult education using
children's books
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using a
seven stage plan for lessons
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modeling
ESL and ABE seven stage family literacy plans using a children's
book
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writing
your own seven stage family literacy plan
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setting
the stage to implement your own family literacy plan with adult
learners at your site.
URL:
http://www.calpro-online.org/tto/default.asp |
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Title:
Parents and Children: Natural Learning Partners
Provider:
National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime |
Description:
Parent and Child
Together (PACT) Time is perhaps the most complex and unique
component of the four-component family literacy model. This
course introduces the basic concepts of PACT Time and covers
ways for volunteers to support parents and children as natural
learning partners.
Various strategies
will be introduced for PACT Time activities with young children
(birth to age 8) and in the elementary school setting. The
course includes information describing the roles of the parents,
volunteers and staff in the PACT Time classroom.
The course is primarily directed at those who are curious about
the notion of parents and children as natural learning partners
and who are considering volunteering their time in support of
it. However, new family literacy volunteers and recently hired
family literacy program staff will benefit as well from the
material presented.
URL:
http://216.26.175.237/index.cfm?cRef=VLU114&cLoc=data |
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Title:
Volunteers in Parent Education
Provider:
National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime |
This course will define Parent Education and will give you a
better picture of how you might become involved in helping
parents strengthen their knowledge and skills in order to
support their childrens literacy development and education.
URL:
http://216.26.175.237/index.cfm?cRef=VLU102&cLoc=courses
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Title:
Connecting Families and Computers
Provider:
National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime |
Description:
Family literacy program directors and staff are in the unique
position of ensuring that all parents have access to the
opportunities and benefits computer technology brings. In this
first of two courses, you will learn how to incorporate basic
computer applications for parents during the Parent Time and
Adult Education components of family literacy. The second course
in this two-part series will be released in Spring, 2004.
URL:
http://216.26.175.237/index.cfm?cRef=VLU112&cLoc=data |
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GED
Administration |
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Title:
Administering the GED Tests
Provider:
FloridaTechNet, funded by Florida Adult Education
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description:
As the Chief or Alternate Chief Examiner of the GED
Tests, you know what the word pressure means. Having
responsibility for the GED Test means constant concerns about:
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Maintaining
security
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Ensuring a
smooth operation of the test center.
This
web-based training has been designed to provide you with some
strategies that you can use to ensure smooth operation of the
GED Tests. This training will not provide you with
everything you need to know, but it can give you some ideas
about:
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Security
measures that may take some of the worry out of testing
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Examples of
procedures to use, whether you are testing at a large or small
center
URL:
http://www.floridatechnet.org/inservice/wbt2/ |
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Title:
GED Research and Policy
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time |
Description:
In this self-study, youll focus first on
general GED information and the research on the economic
benefits of attaining a GED credential. Then youll think about
the policy and program issues related to preparing students for
the GED examination and supporting them for the transition to
postsecondary education and training.
URL: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1082 |
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Title:
Going Beyond the GED
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time
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Description:
Learn why the adult education system should focus
on enabling students to develop the academic skills necessary to
not only complete the GED, but also to enter postsecondary
education and training. Identify strategies for supporting adult
education-to-postsecondary transitions for adult education
students in your own program or classroom.
URL: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1083 |
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GED Instruction |
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Title:
GED 2002 Online Professional Development
Provider:
Kentucky Educational Television sponsors the program; Kentucky
Department for Adult Education and Literacy funds it.
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description:
GED 2002 Online provides information on the GED 2002
Series Tests, as well as strategies that you can implement in
your classroom. The content is divided into four
categories:
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GED Tests Overview
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Math
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Problem Solving
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Calculator
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Grid Format
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Writing
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Multiple Choice
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Essay
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Critical Thinking
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Thinking Skills
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Graphic Literacy
Within each
module you will find these basic sections:
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What Do I
Know?
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Overview
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Module
Content and Activities
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What Did I
Learn?
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Training
Evaluation
URL:
http://www.ket.org/ged2002/ |
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Title:
Using the Internet in Support of GED Math Instruction
Provider:
National Center on Adult Literacy
Cost:
free
Access:
anytime
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Description:
Designed
for professional developers, the purpose of this course is to
explore technology-based resources and tools that can be used to
bolster the math concepts tested by the GED. While identifying
resources and tools is one part of this process, the more
important parts are the teacher's ability:
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to
evaluate resources for their usefulness; and
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to
consider how the resources could be used most effectively.
This
course consists of 5 sessions. The first session provides a
general overview of some of the larger issues related to
teaching math to adults; the next 4 sessions focus on the topics
of:
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Problem
Solving;
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Geometry, Spatial Sense, and Measurement;
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Data
Analysis, Probability, and Statistics; and
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Algebra.
URL:
http://www.literacy.org/tm_math/index.html |
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Title:
Activity-Based
Instruction: Why and How
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time
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Description:
Activity-based instructional approaches emphasize
cognitive development, a critically important ability for GED
students who plan to enter postsecondary education and training.
Examine the implications of the research reported in
Cognitive Skills Matter in the Labor Market, Even for School
Dropouts. Outline the pros and cons of two activity-based
instructional methodscollaborative learning and project-based
learning. URL:
http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1084 |
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Title:
Using Beyond the GED
Provider:
World Education
Cost:
free
Access:
Any time
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