Training: Meet Our Specialists
George Bailey, GED/Distance Learning Specialist
- Instructional & testing components of GED
- GED essay holistic scoring
- Steck-Vaughn GED 21st Century and online practice test
- Race to GED & GED Fast Track
- GED Connection
- Workplace Essential Skills
- Assessment trainings for TABE
- Distance learning and online instruction for learners
Jim Andre , Program Development Specialist
- GED Content Standards
- ABE/GED curriculum and instruction
- Assessment
- Technology
- Program improvement
Lauren Ellington, Online Training and Learning Disabilities Specialist
- Distance learning and online training
- Curriculum design and instructional materials
- Lesson planning
- New teacher training
- Learning disabilities
Nancy Faux, ESOL Specialist
- Assessment and Accountability
- BEST Oral Interview
- BEST Plus
- CASAS
- REEP Writing Rubric
- Curriculum design and instructional materials
- EL/Civics projects/grants
- ESOL Basics (face to face and online modalities)
- ESOL Content Standards
- Health literacy
- Lesson planning
- New teacher orientation
- Program improvement
- Teaching and assessing oral skills
- Teaching and assessing reading and writing
- Teaching multi-level classes
- Workplace ESOL
Susan Holt, Instructional Training Contractor
- GED as Project:
- Introduction
- Writing
- Reading
- Social studies & Science
- Math
- Workplace Essential Skills
- Virginia Reading Project
- Teacher Observation Project
- Fast Track GED
- New Teacher Training
Victoire Sanborn, Literacy Support Center Director
- Volunteers
- Volunteer management
- Tutor in-services (any topic)
- Train the Trainer - tutor training workshops
- Literacy
- Research-based adult reading instruction
- ESOL Basics
- Tutor training
- Learning disabilities
- Database training
- Program Development
- Fund development
- Board development
- Program improvement
- Strategic planning
- Grant writing
- Marketing
- Collaborations & partnerships
- Other
- Workplace literacy
- Online resources
- Tutors
- Students
- Programs
- Family literacy
- Networking
- Crisis management