Weblog: August 2007
2007-2008 Race to GED Outreach Guide Available Online
In addition to introducing the new GED Success Story materials, the 2007-2008 Race to GED Outreach Guide: Virginia's GED Succes Stories provides a comprehensive resource for programs trying to reach out to potential learners and to the wider community. Find information on how to target groups and develop outreach strategies, create a communications strategy, establish relationships with the media, use promotional items, and gain publicity.
Reading Skills for Today's Adults
Reading Skills for Today's Adults is an easy to use online resource. This project was designed to create leveled reading selections that are appropriate for and valued by adult learners. These materials, combined with the research-proven strategies of repeated reading and guided oral reading, aid in building learners' fluency and comprehension skills. The materials correspond to Casas 200 - 235. This project helps adults become better readers and more informed consumers, parents, employees, citizens and community members. The focus of these reading selections will be on topics such us: Civics, Employment, Housing, Health, School, Money, and Government. The readings are appropriate for both ESOL and LD learners. To explore more about this resource, go to: http://www.marshalladulteducation.org/readingskillshome.htm
Adults and Learning Disabilities Online Course Available in the Fall Session
VALRC's newest online professional development course, Adults and Learning Disabilities, will be available during our fall session as one of our regular course offerings. To find out more about the course, go to: http://www.valrc.org/training/online/.
New Math Workshops for the Non-Math Teacher!
As we delivered the four strands of Numeracy Workshops around Virginia last year, teachers began asking us interesting questions - not just how to teach math concepts to learners, but more detail on what those concepts were all about for their own professional development. Many of you adult education math teachers are not certified in math and feel that math is not your strength, but you bravely teach our students because you have a good heart and a multi-level and/or multi-subject classroom! These workshops are for you. They are expanded to allow time for extra Q&A, and will not only offer new activities, but revisit ones demonstrated in the standard workshop. You will get a chance to dig deeper and truly understand the math involved, to teach it better to your students.
This year two strands of "Math for the Non-Math Teacher" will be offered: Numbers & Number Sense and Patterns & Algebra
The other two strands for the "Non-Math Teacher" will be offered in 2008-2009: Measurement & Geometry and Data & Statistics
Be sure to request a numeracy workshop in your region. Ask for one of the two new "Math for the Non-Math Teacher" workshops or one of the "Standard" Numeracy Workshops (still available in all four strands this year).
Contact Nancy Chapin, the new Numeracy Project Coordinator, at 540-989-8005 or nachapin@cox.net
Virginia GED Success Stories on YouTube
The four videos from OAEL's most recent GED campaign spotlight GED success stories in Virginia and are now available on YouTube for use with your students, testers and other stakeholders:
Melissa Timberlake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JtgetP3JS0
Sonny Alicie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46FlU-6H7wY
Mary White: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9vbWBQnT-k
Andre Bright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpjiV1ePrU
You can also find these clips by searching for "Virginia GED" on the YouTube site.
New Publication on How Adults Learn to Read
The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) just announced the publication of QEd, a new, free, and online five-issue series on how adults learn to read: http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/news_events/07-12-07.html
GED Connection Workshop
Prince William Adult Education
Saturday, August 25, 2007
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
GED Connection is a comprehensive instructional program that combines workbooks, videos and online activities to create multimedia GED instruction that appeals to different learning styles and provides distance learning opportunities.
In this full-day workshop, participants will become familiar with all components of GED Connection and begin to plan lessons using them. A set of materials will be provided to each participant.
To sign up, please complete the registration form and fax or mail it to the Resource Center as directed on the form.
Space is limited, so register soon!