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Workshops by Date
Please note: this schedule is subject to change. Check back often for updated information.
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Thursday, May 30,
2002
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Friday, May 31,
2002
9:45
a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
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Saturday, June 1, 2002 |
Thursday, May 30, 2002
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
- Buying Your Home Computer
- Through lecture, demonstration, and discussion, learners will 1) gain basic knowledge
of computer terms that they need to know when buying a computer; and 2) learn about
shopping for a computer, including specifications, brands, stores, prices, and support.
- Mining for Gold - Using Your Data to Your Political and Financial Advantage
- Most literacy providers spend too much time getting data into their database(s) and get too little in return. This workshop will focus on identifying key programmatic outcomes and how to maximize these key indicators to your political/financial advantage.
- How to Host a Scrabble Fund-raiser
- Participants will get a step-by-step overview of how to use Scrabble
as a fund-raising tool. The presentation includes affiliate
testimonials, sample game play sessions, and a question/answer
period.
- Finding Our Voice: Women Literacy Learners with
Disabilities Speak Out
- This session presents the recommendations that a group of women with
disabilities gives to adult education programs and to other women
literacy learners through stories, quotes, photos, and video images.
This is the result of a Women in Literacy grant.
- Assessing Success in Adult ESL
- An accurate and complete profile of learner progress and program effectiveness can be achieved by integrating standardized and alternative assessments. This session highlights strategies and activities for assessing success.
- ESL, Employers, and Local Workforce Boards: Collaborations that
Work
- Leaders from a Texas workplace literacy program coprised of an oilfield manufacturer, a local workforce board, and a literacy provider will explain how close collaboration can benefit the language skills and employability of proficient workers with limited English. Curriculum activities will be demonstrated.
- TV411
- TV411 is a multimedia teaching tool. Come see how video, print, and
the Web can be used to enhance the learning experience of adult literacy
students.
- Life Prints: Real Language, Real Situations - Featuring New
Literacy Level
- Participants will learn how Life Prints: ESL for Adults gives
students language they can use immediately to help them be more
effective at home, at work, and in the community. The session will
feature the literacy level and other new features.
- The Road to Accreditation - One Program's Experience
- Learn how one program worked through the accreditation process.
Topics will include: LLA: Friend Not Foe!, Understanding the Standards,
The Inherent Value and Benefits of the Process, and Organizational
Tips and Strategies. Bring your questions for discussion.
- Learning A Skill: Building Knowledge Base, Fluency, Range, and Independence
- What does it mean to be good at the skills of reading, speaking or tutoring? As tutors and trainers, we often focus on building a learner's knowledge base. While this is important to "know" something, it is also vital to make sure learners can use a skill with ease (fluency), in different contexts (range), and on their own (independence). Come explore ways to help your learners (or yourself) master new skills and describe progress.
- ProLiteracy America State/Regional Forum
- We need your input and ideas! What kind of state/regional system would best help you
in your literacy work? What state membership benefits would be most important to your state?
These are the two questions the ProLiteracyAmerica State/Regional Task Force seeks answers
for during this Forum. Come with your recommendations to us, so we'll know what to recommend to
the ProLiteracy Board. You'll also have an opportunity to meet the Task Force members at this meeting
and hear what work the Task Force has done and will be doing throughout 2002.
- Learning Disabilities as a Disability: The Implications for Federal Civil Rights Laws and New Rulings for Adult Literacy Programs
- New federal guidance and OCR rulings concerning rights of persons
with disabilities in programs covered by Title II of the ADA have
expanded our understanding of these rights and have strong implications
for adult education.
- Finding LINCS to Solutions
- Participants will use the resources available on the LINCS web site,
including the Assessment and Family Literacy Collections, to find useful
information for their practice and to solve scenarios suggested by the
presenters.
- Teaching Adults with Learning Disabilities
- This presentation will examine the definition of learning
disabilities, its causes, legal issues, self-advocacy, and appropriate
teaching accommodations and strategies. This workshop will include both simulation
and hands-on activities, as well as lecture and discussion.
- How to be a Terrific Trainer
- This workshop will address the finer points of preparing to train as
well as necessary information needed to be an effective trainer. This is
a hands-on workshop; participants will learn as they do.
- PEACE: Teaching Civics Through ESL Instruction
- Participants will learn how to use California Literacy's PEACE
curriculum designed to engage students in civics participation through
ESL instruction. The presenters will demonstrate how to use the
curriculum, then facilitate small-group practice. Free curriculum
materials will be included.
- Writing Can Be Fun!
- If you�ve had trouble getting students and yourself excited about writing, this workshop is for you. Participants will learn easy and practical techniques to get even the most reticent person to look forward to writing. Techniques are appropriate for ESL and literacy students at all levels.
- School Shame: How it Blocks Learning and Harms the Self
- While it is well-documented that many adult learners who have
suffered school failure have low self-esteem, little research exists to
explain the cause or how to heal it. In this presentation, Leslie shares
insights from her doctoral study of early school shame and its lifelong
impact on learning, identity, and self-worth.
- What Are You Really Learning?
- This workshop will introduce EFF to learners. It will show how improving basic skills is not just improving reading, writing, and math. It is also improving themselves as parent/family members, workers, and community/citizen members by being able to use their voice, access information, act independently, and bridge to the future. The workshop would also help them discover all the other skills they are/will be improving by incorporating the standards on the EFF wheel.
- Complying with WIA Without Compromising Program Integrity
- Participants will explore the challenges of WIA compliance. Discussion will
focus on issues in policy, data collection, compliance, and advocacy. Alternatives
to reducing student success to test scores will also be discussed.
- The ESL Special Collection: Free, Online, and Easily
Useful
- Participants will learn how to search a free national online
collection of ESL resources. They will find and download useful
materials. Participants should have basic computer and Internet skills.
- Violence in Adult Education and its Impact on Women
- This session will have a discussion of the impact of violence on women.
It will begin with a dialogue of violence, based on the book Too Scared to
Learn by Dr. Jenny Horsman, examine individual definitions/experiences
of violence, establish a good working definition of violence, develop
tools for assessing students' learning styles, examine the impact of
violence on learning and women, and begin discussion of various methods
to facilitate learning for women who have experienced violence.
- Nurturing the Seeds
- This workshop will share and explore empowering marginalized women.
Immigrant women come to the Learning and Loving Education Center in Morgan Hill,
California to learn a second language, computer skills, and job readiness.
Some start their own cooperative businesses. The workshop will help you foster
ways to provide skills, hope, and direction.
We encourage participants to share the challenges and blessings of their work.
- Shifting the Training Paradigm to Connect Literacy and Social
Justice
- A look at the challenging process of redesigning tutor training to
reflect a student-centered approach of instruction, develop community
among new tutors, and address issues of cultural competency.
- The Three R's of Volunteer Literacy Programs: Recruitment, Retention,
and Recognition
- Presenters will share successful strategies in the three R's of
volunteer tutors and adult learners. A short, locally produced video
used to recruit tutors, solicit funding, and promote literacy awareness
will be viewed. Group discussion will follow.
- An Action-Packed Approach to Teaching - and Learning -
English
- Basic English for Everyday Activities, a new picture process
dictionary for beginning ESL learners, highlights actions (verbs) in
teaching everyday vocabulary. The presenters will demonstrate flexible
teaching techniques using print and audio materials, role-plays, and
realia.
- Solutions to Board Problems
- Board and key staff members need to be prepared for all
eventualities. This workshop on problem solving will give experienced
board and staff members opportunities to solve problems together.
- Fund-Raising Panel
- Meet with representatives from philanthropical foundations with national, regional, and local funding priorities. The panelists will share insights with conference attendees about the current funding climate: how to best interest foundation funders in the issue of literacy and what grant makers are looking for in terms of collaboration, professionalism, and accountability.
- Exploring New Models for Literacy Tutor/Instructor
Training
- Conduct dynamic training by combining relevant research and theory
with an effective instructional model. This workshop spotlights engaging
realistic video lessons featuring "classic" beginning and intermediate
students. (Videos and manual available from Literacy Solutions.)
- P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Curriculum: Teaching Parenting with Children's
Books
- Participants will learn about the four components of family literacy
with focus on the parent education component using the P.A.R.E.N.T.S.
curriculum. Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of
parent education through an overview of parenting topics and children's
books used in the curriculum and how library literacy programs teach
parent education.
- Living Your Dream Through Positive Attitude
- In this workshop you will see a video of famous people who did not give up their dreams. We will discuss and explore attitudes to help you live your dreams through a positive attitude.
- Each One Teach One Workplace Literacy: Tap the Resources in
Continuing Care and Healthcare Facilities
- This seminar presents a workplace program that recruits
assisted-living facility residents to tutor their caregivers, and
hospital employees to tutor fellow employees in ESOL. Includes "how-to"
session with tips on marketing the idea, program management, and
training.
- Building Bridges - Bias Awareness and Prevention-Interagroup Understanding
- This workshop will train staff, students, tutors, and administrators
from various literacy organizations in bias awareness and prevention methods. It will
allow participants to teach or share the information and techniques with staff and program
participants in order to develop skills that will lead them to becoming catalysts for
change, breaking down barriers and stereotypes, encouraging positive inter-group
tolerance, and building understanding toward improving our lives and those we interact
with. Activities include helping participants identify, recognize, and accept person bias
through video, exercises, discussions, interaction, and tools for beginning an active
program.
- Teachers as Learners: Developing Teacher Study Groups for
Professional Development
- Staff developers will describe and model the study group method and
demonstrate how teachers have used these techniques to question,
examine, and improve classroom practice. Guidelines for using this
process will be shared in written form.
- An Empowering Approach to Employability: Recognizing Skills and Talents Though
Language and Dialogue
- In this workshop, participants will learn how to help learners develop a resume
and talk and write about their employability skills through the use of skills
analysis, vocabulary development, and writing practice.
- National Institute for Literacy Programs and Services
- This session will inform participants about resources that can help support their work in the literacy field. It will include an overview of Equipped for the Future, Bridges to Practice, LINCS, and much more.
- ProLiteracy America Accreditation Forum
- Take this opportunity to meet with the members of the Accreditation Task Force.
For the past eight months, they have been crafting Accreditation for the new organization. Ask your questions and share your comments.
- Trainer Roundtable
- Roundtable discussion: trainers will have an opportunity to meet
with Laubach staff and board members to discuss issues related to
training in the new literacy organization. Topics will include workshop
design, training skills, and trainer certification.
- Learning Disabilities in Non-English Speaking Populations - A New
Federal Effort to Address the Issues
- A new federal effort is under way concerning LD in Spanish-speakers
in the U.S. NIFL is partnering with researchers around the world to
develop the means to identify and address LD in non-English speaking
populations.
- Useful Resources for Adult ESL
- Participants will recommend resources they have found useful for adult
ESL instruction, including classroom materials, web sites, and
organizations. Staff from NCLE will also offer suggestions. Handouts will be
provided.
- Technology Checkout: Using Web TV, Laptops, and Other Electronic
Tools to Increase Learning Time at Home
- The presenters will show how adult learners use Web TV, laptops, and
other electronic tools at home to enhance the instruction they receive
in one-to-one tutoring. Information will be provided on equipment costs,
criteria for selecting learners to participate in the technology
checkout program, checkout agreements, and how to evaluate the results
of the technology initiative.
- Creating Community Partners Through Storytelling
- Participants will learn how an adult education storytelling project
involved a professional storyteller, a local library, several K-12
schools, and the early childhood education department to successfully
reach out to families in their county's growing Hispanic population.
- Surveys as a Tool for Program Evaluation
- Presenters will discuss the pro's and con's of using surveys to
evaluate the varied aspects of literacy organization programs: training,
tutor satisfaction, exit surveys, student issues, community feedback,
strategic planning, etc.
- Program Evaluations: Show Donors Why They Should Trust You With
Their Money!
- This lively discussion is for everyone! It will center around
dispelling the myth that evaluations are evil. Participants must come
armed with ideas on how to use program evaluations to earn more money
for literacy.
- Strategic Alliances: An Overview
- Partnerships among organizations can range from the informal to the
formal. This workshop will present a rationale for strengthening
relationships among agencies, as well as an introduction to the
characteristics and benefits of diverse types of partnership
opportunities.
- Continuation of Victoria Purcell-Gates
- This session will be a question/answer; brainstorming/response to
the content of Victoria Purcell-Gates' talk on the nature of authentic reading
and writing activities for adult learners and its impact on the uses of print in their lives.
- Forum: Student Advisory Group Task Force for ProLiteracy
Worldwide
- Participants will hear a report from the Task Force and have
opportunities to ask questions and provide feedback. Join Task
Force Chair, John Zickefoose, and the Task Force members for this
important session in determining how students will advise, and
participate in, the new merged organization.
- Merger - A Leap of Faith
- Participants will learn what aspects of the organization's mission
structure and leadership made the merger process work smoothly and
rather quickly. Suggestions and lessons learned will be offered from the
executive directors of two recently merged organizations.
- Increasing Student Retention by Utilizing Support Schedules and
Individual Education Plans
- The Literacy Center for the Midlands uses Individual Education Plans
(IEPs) as part of a support schedule to increase both student and tutor
retention. Participants will learn how the Literacy Center has
implemented the support schedule and how it has positively affected
retention rates. Participants will also receive copies of an IEP and
support schedule.
- If You Build It, They Will Come: Developing and Retaining Student
Involvement
- Successful student involvement efforts start with staff and students
working together. Participants will learn the keys to building student
involvement while exploring a variety of successful activities - student
groups and events, student writing projects, and more!
- America Through New Eyes
- For the past two years LVAGRC has received a grant from its local Council of the Arts to develop a display that depicts how ESOL students from a variety of countries see America. Learn how to create this photo display and how to utilize it to tell the LVA story to potential volunteers and donors. Participants will see the portable display.
Friday, May 31, 2002
9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- The Birth of Each One Teach One
- Follow the early work of Frank C. Laubach and the evolution of Laubach Literacy.
- Build Literacy in Your Community with
www.buildliteracy.org
- Http://www.buildliteracy.org is a web site for building and
sustaining literacy coalitions. The project team will describe goals and
objectives, demonstrate the site's features, and facilitate a dialogue.
Participants will learn to navigate the site and develop strategies for
building literacy.
- ProLiteracy America Accreditation Forum
- Take this opportunity to meet with the members of the Accreditation Task Force.
For the past eight months, they have been crafting Accreditation for the new organization.
Ask your questions and share your comments.
- "Learn About Me" - Building support and influencing
learning
- This innovative 15-hour course helps new readers explore learning
strategies, assess current attitudes and abilities, and develop
confidence. This session introduces the participants to elements of this
course and its impact on learners and tutoring.
- Advocacy at the State Level
- Description:
- Using Data to Guide Program Improvement
- This presentation will describe how adult education programs can
improve their data collection practices, effectively report student
outcomes, and use data for program improvement and decision-making. It
will draw upon the �lessons learned� from the 12 agencies that comprise
the What Works Literacy Partnership, an initiative funded by the
Wallace-Reader�s Digest Fund to support adult literacy providers in
their efforts to improve their capacity to integrate data into all
facets of organizational life.
- Great Stories - and More - for Beginning-Level ESL
Students
- Stories Plus and Easy Stories Plus provide ESL learners with
entertaining, relevant readings. The presenters will demonstrate how the
lessons stimulate language development and critical thinking and how to
use them with multilevel groups.
- Women in Literacy/Women in Action, U.S. and International
Panel
- Leaders from women's literacy organizations in Asia, Africa, Latin
America, and the U.S. will participate in a panel discussion focused on
issues that cut across borders in women's education. The discussion will
explore women-focused solutions to shared challenges in areas such as
student motivation and retention, curriculum design, advocacy, staff
development, and collaboration. Panelists will share programmatic
perspectives on how to address the global matters of women's education
in locally significant ways.
- Screening for Auditory and Visual Perceptual Differences with
Reading-Disadvantaged Students
- The presenter will review and present preliminary results of his research into the role of visual,
visual motor, and visual perceptual differences in the reading process. A brief overview of the role of
auditory perceptual differences will be discussed and screening procedures,
including the Linda Mood Auditory Conceptualization test, will be demonstrated.
- Learning Online About Teaching ESL and Civics
- Presenters will demonstrate the online professional development system
for ESOL practitioners teaching English literacy and civics that they
developed through a federally funded grant. Participants will learn
about the content, features, and instructional approach used for
teacher-training.
- A Tour of a Mobile Literacy Unit
- Tour a 32' mobile literacy unit designed to take literacy activities
to children ages 0-5 and their caretakers. The unit, LAMBS - Literacy
And Mobile Book Services, was purchased with Prop 10 funds.
- "Open Mike" Forum for Students
- This forum is an opportunity to share experiences, ideas, and
concerns with other students. All students are welcome to attend!
- Health Literacy Collaborations: Combing Literacy and Health
Initiatives to Make Health Information Available to All
- Through a brief lecture and group discussion, participants will
explore strategies that bring together literacy and health providers to
develop programs for understandable health information for all.
- Fund Your Literacy Organization's Future...Now!
- Program administrators and directors will learn the "how-to's" of planned giving. Two approaches are discussed: a traditional development model as well as a fast track option. A Gift of Literacy Toolkit is provided.
- Designing Effective Workshops
- Are you looking for ways to improve your workshop? Come hear what
other programs have done. Learn to use a four-step design process and a
variety of tools that will help you analyze your workshop, identify
improvements, and put them into practice.
- Bridges to Practice for Tutors - Part I
- Based on the national Bridges to Practice guides, participants will
learn smarter principles and appropriate instructional strategies such
as direct instruction and information processing. Characteristics of LD,
appropriate instruction, and resources will be examined.
- The Journey to Wholeness: Healing the Harm of School
Failures
- Early struggles to learn to read and write cause hidden harm to a
child's feelings of self-worth and competence that carry into adulthood.
This workshop for adult learners helps them get in touch with their
limitless self and heal the harm of school-memories.
- Writing Easy-to-Read Materials
- Using handouts and practice exercises, participants at all levels of expertise will be instructed in writing easy-reading materials from scratch or for simplifying existing materials.
- The Impact of Violence on Learning: Ideas for Teaching and
Policy
- How does naming the impact of violence on learning make it possible
for women students to learn when they otherwise could not? How is it
more than just "good practice"? Share in work of programs and
researchers.
- Lesson Planning with EFF
- Participants will learn and practice using EFF Standards for constructing lesson plans.
- How Online Lessons and Resources Have Improved Our
Programs
- This presentation details experiences of a literacy program's use of
online lessons, online training, tutor and student support, and work
with board committees - all via the Internet. Recommendations and
handouts provided.
- Focus Group: Student Advisory Group Task Force for ProLiteracy
Worldwide
- This session is an opportunity for students - and others- to provide
their thoughts on shaping how students will advise the newly merged
organization. Members of the task force will facilitate in-depth
discussions on various issues. It will be helpful, but not required, if
participants attend the Task Force Forum on Thursday, May 30th.
- Making Important Health Choices
- How can classes set up on a basic reading level help women with literacy
needs face and make choices about their health and their family�s health?
A survey of medical needs developed with students and a curriculum
designed with student input helped women at Literacy Chicago to make more informed
choices. Hear how questions and support coming from discussion and class activities
made the difference.
- Preparing ESL Learners for the INS Naturalization Interview
- The INS naturalization interview can be intimidating to immigrants.
This presentation uses materials from New Readers Press to demonstrate
instructional activities that help learners develop language skills,
content knowledge, communication strategies, and confidence for
successful interviews.
- Learning Disabilities Simulation - Part I
- Experience the frustration of several specific learning
disabilities. Expand your understanding of and empathy for students who
have difficulties with one or more of the following: visual motor
(writing), visual processing (reading), or auditory processing
(listening).
- LD Accommodations . . . What are They?
- This workshop will demonstrate the use of easily obtainable
resources that can make learning easier for students who have
characteristics of learning disabilities and for students who just need
extra reinforcement.
- Emotions! The Prerequisite to Learning
- Lack of progress? Dropouts? Life situations getting in the way of
learning? Fears of failure and success? Low self-esteem? All of these
personal and program issues have their core in emotions because emotions
are core to learning! This session will present a simple model to
understand the role of emotions in learning. Using this model
participants will build a list of dos and don'ts to work through the
highly charged emotional issues of re-entering an educational setting.
Cutting-edge research, practical strategies, best practices, and
personal accounts will be presented to help programs, tutors, and
students move beyond past learning traumas and on to creating positive,
empowered futures that will expedite learning.
- Literacy Policy Update
- Join us for a lively discussion on the latest literacy-related
policy issues being debated in Congress and how this debate may affect
adult and family literacy programs and services in your state.
- How to get 100% Reporting From Your Tutors Plus Encourage Regular
Student Attendance: The Carrot and The Stick
- Participants should be those responsible for verifying attendance of
students and getting monthly reports from tutors. Participants will
identify reasons for not reporting, brainstorm methods for rewarding
attendance and reporting, list ways reporting can be made easier, and
hear what worked for a program with 100% reporting from over 150 tutors.
- Building Better Boards
- The quality of your local board of directors can make or break your
program. Discover basic board responsibilities, tips on how to get your
board energized, how to draft action plans, and what resources are
available for nonprofit boards.
- The Laubach/UPS Family Learning Project - A Look at Success and Challenges to Serving Families
- The Laubach/UPS Project recruits programs interested in a mentor/ prot�g� relationship. This brief seminar examines how mentor/prot�g� programs work together, how new programs meet challenges in providing family learning service, and trends in collecting and reporting data that spell success for programs.
- Reaching People Through Learning - Continuing the Discussion with Alexander Weir
- Many adults and young people are lost or drifting through life because of family issues
and because they lack basic skills, support groups, and coping skills. Life can sometimes
force people to learn what was never previously revealed to them, and lead them to discover
greater opportunities and possibilities in the midst of dealing with hard secrets, heavy
issues, and reality. Bleak times can lead us to new information and to people who
shine a light upon the darkness that sometimes falls upon the path of our personal journey.
This presentation, will highlight how helplessness can bring us to learning experiences
and to great inner changes that we often think can only happen in the movies.
- Online Information Tools Just for You!
- With support from Verizon Communications, Laubach Literacy and Literacy Volunteers
of America are creating online literacy tools to help you be more effective in your work.
Join us and learn how to get your literacy questions answered through
Ask VerizonReads. Be present for the unveiling of Verizon Literacy University
, an online training site for volunteers and staff. Find out how to get and give
ideas on the Verizon/LVA Promising Practices Exchange. Hear about the Program
Manager�s Orientation, an online resource for individuals new to literacy
program administration.
- Literacy for Social Change
- Learn an exciting international literacy technique that can be used in literacy programs in the USA.
Through decades of worldwide experience, Laubach Literacy has developed a unique tool that enables
the learner to effectively combine literacy and cutting-edge strategies for human
development. This methodology integrates four components: fundamental skills, critical thinking,
cultural expression and learner-initiated action. This highly motivational technique
helps learners apply new skills to problems of everyday living.
- Money Management
- This presentation will discuss aspects of personal money management:
dealing with credit and debt problems, budgeting, and handling income
taxes. Suggestions will be given for improving the individual�s
financial situation, including a listing of resources for obtaining
low-cost or no-cost assistance.
- Collaborations for Literacy: The SDCOL
- Participants will learn the history and functions of the San Diego
Council on Literacy, a nonprofit organization, which has formed
partnerships to enhance literacy fund-raising, awareness, and support to
programs. Various presentation formats are featured.
- Beyond the Textbook: Two Core ESL Techniques
- Learn 18 useful variations of two core ESL techniques: dictation and journaling.
Appropriate for individual students and in small groups, these techniques make it easy
to integrate writing into lessons from the very beginning.
- Correctional Education: Finding the Information You Need
Online
- Participants will be given a tour of the LINCS Special Collection -
a wide variety of Internet-based resources related to adult literacy
instruction in corrections, including best practices, instructional
resources, and research.
- Successful Tutor Recruitment and Retention
- Over the last few years, the Yuma Reading Council has developed a recruitment and retention plan that works at all levels within the agency. It focuses on getting tutors in and keeping them in the simplest, most effective way it can.
- Civics Education "Teachers Toolbox" - An Innovative Curriculum
for New Americans
- The Civics Education "Teachers Toolbox" is an innovative curriculum
designed for immigrants and new learners of English to provide them with
information and skills to become U.S. citizens and to understand the
governmental and workplace systems key to their success in American
life.
- Internet Resources for Adult Education Teachers
- Participants will discover how to use the OTAN web sites to access
teaching resources for ESL, ABE, and GED programs. Resources include
instructional software, lesson plans, instructional links, vendor
database, project ideas, and online tools to create activities.
- Risky Business? - Managing Your Organization�s Risks
- Participants will learn how to incorporate an ongoing risk
management program into their organizations. This interactive session
will explore identifying and measuring risks, deciding ways to control
or finance risk, and monitoring your risk management efforts.
- Family Reading - It's Not Just for Bedtime Anymore!
- Learn how to use the family reading process as part of a PACT
activity to teach vocabulary and reading strategies to parents and
children while addressing literacy or ESL content standards. Highly
interactive and fun!
- Learn a Few Phonics Rules That Can Help One's Pronunciation,
Reading, and Spelling
- Pronunciation of American English is very much affected by phonics
rules. This session will review some phonics rules, then practice
pronunciation of long and short vowels, words with confusing spelling,
and difficult, sometimes embarrassing, words.
- Numeracy and the Adult Learner
- This practical, interactive workshop will offer tips and techniques
on how to work with learners on mathematics. The focus will be on
problem-solving, word problems, prediction, estimation, and the move
from the concrete to the abstract. The goal is to give participants
information and skills they can apply with learners that very next week!
- Using TESOL's Adult ESOL Program Self-Review Instrument
- Members of the TESOL Task Force on Adult Education Program Standards
will demonstrate the program's self-review instrument that accompanies
TESOL's adult program standards and discuss ways to apply the instrument
in volunteer and CBO programs.
- Mastering Graphics on the GED Reading Tests
- Using numerous handouts and practice exercises, participants at all
skill levels will learn to interpret different kinds of graphics and analyze political cartoons to develop graphic and comprehension
skills for the GED reading test.
- Learning Difficulties and Volunteer Training - A Module for Use
in Volunteer Organizations
- Participants will examine a module on designed for inclusion in volunteer
literacy training awareness of LD. They will receive a copy of
the module, including training scripts, handouts, and overhead masters.
- Using a Lower Reading Level Health Book to Teach Basic Reading
Skills and ESL
- This presentation first covers an overview of the healthcare
literacy problem, its impact on patients, and the $73 billion cost to
the healthcare system. Next, a brief review of current research in
health literacy will be given. Finally, a demonstration of a unique
model to teach basic reading/ESL using a healthcare book, What to do
When Your Child Gets Sick, written at a third grade reading level, will
be given. The model includes visual glossaries, word games, cognitive
exercises, and progressive skill-building.
- Learning Disabilities Simulation - Part II
- Learn accommodations for students who have difficulties with one or more of
the following: visual motor (writing), visual processing (reading), or auditory
processing (listening).
- Student Involvement - What is it?
- Workshop participants will learn the wide variety of ways students are involved in literacy organizations. They will create a plan to incorporate these ideas and learn to use VALUE's Four R's: Recruitment, Retention, Resource Development, and Reform.
Saturday, June 1, 2002
For general information call Marty Kuppinger at 315/422-9121
ext. 352 or e-mail to [email protected].
For sponsorship information call Antonio (Tony) Morales at
315-472-0001, ext. 378 or e-mail to [email protected].
9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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