Join your community of adult education professional developers at the Annual AALPD Member Meeting. Learn about the year’s activities, how you can continue benefiting from AALPD events and resources, and ways you can get involved in AALPD. Meet colleagues from around the country and spend time sharing and learning from each other about common topics, tasks, and tools. Help us plan and shape the ways AALPD will support you in the coming year.
Register for the meeting here. AALPD Sharing Session: Using LINCS Resources for Effective PD, September 13, 2023, 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET8/27/2023
Whether you regularly take advantage of what LINCS has to offer or you aren't sure what your next steps are for leveraging LINCS resources as a professional developer, let's discuss successes, challenges, and promising practices. How does your organization use LINCS resources? What has worked for your organization in the past and what questions do you have? Come ready to share and ask questions! Marcela Movit from LINCS will join us to share how LINCS can support you as professional developers.
Summer Camps and Maker Spaces: Creative PD for New Teacher Skills
It’s an exciting time to be providing professional development for adult educators. With new technology come new ways of teaching, new skills teachers need, and new ways to deliver PD. Hear about how World Education is engaging teachers through service learning opportunities and collaborative design challenges. In summer camps (like CampGPT) and EdTech Maker Spaces, teachers learn how to create classroom-ready resources and explore emerging technology in a low stakes, fun environment, and in doing so, build a sense of belonging and community. We hope you can join us for this session of professional learning for professional developers! About the Presenters Rachel Riggs, MATESOL, works on various research, professional development, and digital learning initiatives in her role as Technical Advisor for World Education. Before joining World Education, she taught ESOL in an adult education program. Rachel focuses on promoting digital equity and supporting educators in their use of technology. Rachel is a national adult education leader on the topics of digital skills, artificial intelligence, and professional development to support the open education movement; she leads monthly EdTech Strategy Sessions for adult educators across the U.S. Jeff Goumas is a Sr. Technical Advisor for World Education. In this role, he implements a range of teacher professional development initiatives focused on supporting adult educators in building evidence-based edtech strategies into their instructional routines. In addition, he co-leads World Education’s CrowdED Learning initiative, which works to expand access to and awareness of high-quality, free and open education resources by providing increased opportunities for teacher collaboration and contribution. He is based in Chicago, Illinois. AALPD Annual Member Meeting and Sharing Session - May 5, 2023, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Eastern Time4/7/2023
Please mark your calendars and register for our Annual Member Meeting and Sharing Session. At the start of the meeting, we will introduce our AALPD Board members and share how you can support the work of AALPD as we gear up for the new year. We will then hold a Networking and Sharing Session. Our discussion will focus on free resources to support professional development in adult education, including images and graphics, learning and web platforms, open educational resources, open access resources, research, and more! Please come prepared to share resources and your ideas for using them to develop, deliver, and support professional learning! All are welcome to attend.
AALPD is working with COABE on the Fall 2023 edition of COABE Journal focused on professional development in adult education. Review the call for articles below. Deadline for submission is May 22, 2023!
Most adult education tutors and teachers receive quality pre-service training before they start working with students. For many, this training is delivered without the instructor having adult education experience to provide context for what they’re learning. Once they begin teaching, they have little time for or access to additional training, either because the local provider lacks the staff/resources, or the instructor and provider are not aware of what is available.
ProLiteracy's Teacher Training Plus project attempts to address this issue by: 1) Surveying tutors, teachers, and program administrators about the issues instructors encounter once they begin working with students, 2) Designing webinars that present best-practice instructional strategies, and 3) Providing just-in-time small group coaching sessions to help instructors implement the strategies. Come hear about the results using this model! About the Presenter Todd Evans is the director of professional development for ProLiteracy. In that role, he identifies the professional development, learning, and support needs of literacy program managers, tutors and instructors, trainers, and students, and directs the development and delivery of professional development, learning, and support services to meet those needs. Todd has been with ProLiteracy since 1995. He has spent most of his time with ProLiteracy providing training to tutors, teachers, students, and program managers in a variety of subjects. Get Ready to Deliver Powerful Presentations!
Are you preparing to present at the COABE 2023 National Conference? Could you use some help putting together a quality presentation? Join AALPD as we share top tips for Powerful Presentations. Our panelists' experiences, both as seasoned presenters and as participants, lay the foundation for this session. Topics include engaging your audience, both virtually and in person, room management, time management, and quality handouts. Get ready for COABE with the help of AALPD! About the Presenters This webinar will feature a panel of AALPD Board members who have a wealth of experience as presenters and participants: Olga Escamilla, Ph.D. AALPD Board Chair PDC Specialist, TCALL, Texas A&M University Sarah Goldammer, M.S. AALPD Board Member and COABE Presenter Coach Director, Southern Illinois Professional Development Center Carmine Stewart, Ph.D. AALPD Board Member Vice President of Programming, Seeds of Literacy President and CEO, Aspire Consulting and Educational Services Thank you to COABE for hosting this webinar! We look forward to seeing you1 This webinar for professional developers will focus on becoming familiar with evidence-based practices to plan and evaluate effective professional learning. The webinar will include examples and resources used by current adult education professional developers at the state and national levels. There will be time for discussion and questions. We hope you can join us!
About the Presenters This webinar will feature a panel of presenters with rich and varied expertise in planning and evaluating professional learning in adult education programs:
Click here for meeting information. We look forward to seeing you! David J. Rosen was an interviewer for the 2021 Open Door Collective E-BAES Task Force study "COVID-19 Rapid Response Report from the Field" that focused on adult foundational education (AFE) practitioner experience and professional learning. In this webinar, David will highlight and discuss report findings that could be of particular interest to AFE professional developers and practitioners interested in their own professional development. There will be time for questions and open discussion after the presentation.
About the Presenter David J. Rosen, Ed.D., was Executive Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Boston from 1986 to 2003. Since then, as an independent consultant, he has been the moderator of two U.S. Department of Education-sponsored LINCS communities of practice: Integrating Technology, and Program Management. As an Associate of the EdTech Center at World Education, he has been the internal evaluator of the English Now! Learning Circles project developed by the World Education EdTech Center and funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, and an advisor to the English Now! national scale-up, also funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Dr. Rosen is a Subject Matter Expert and Team Leader for the Illinois Digital Learning Lab. He is also currently helping to develop a guide to Flex models (HyFlex and BlendFlex) for World Education’s IDEAL Consortium. He has been the lead author with Carmine Stewart of Blended Learning for the Adult Education Classroom published by Essential Education, and a co-author with Dr. Jen Vanek of “Technology for Innovation and Change in Adult Basic Skills Education,” a chapter in Turning Points: Recent Trends in Adult Basic Literacy, Numeracy, and Language Education, Jossey-Bass, Fall 2017. Also with Jen Vanek, he is co-author of The What, Why, Who, and How of Blended Learning for Adult Basic Skills Learners published online in May 2020, by New Readers Press. For several years, he was the author of the COABE Journal's technology column and is now the author of the Technology Solutions column in the Adult Literacy Education journal published by ProLiteracy. Click here for meeting information. We look forward to seeing you! AALPD Webinar: A New Name and Definition to Describe Our Field - March 21 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time2/22/2022 In this webinar, David J. Rosen, Ed.D., will propose a new name for the field of adult basic education. He will lead a discussion to explore why a new name is needed, how a new definition could better support practitioners and adult learners working towards a variety of goals, and how the term Adult Foundational Education may be an optimal choice.
About the presenter David J. Rosen, Ed.D., was Executive Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Boston from 1986 to 2003. Since then, as an independent consultant, he has been the moderator of two U.S. Department of Education-sponsored LINCS communities of practice: Integrating Technology, and Program Management. As an Associate of the EdTech Center at World Education, he has been the internal evaluator of the English Now! Learning Circles project developed by the World Education EdTech Center and funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, and an advisor to the English Now! national scale-up, also funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Dr. Rosen is a Subject Matter Expert and Team Leader for the Illinois Digital Learning Lab. He is also currently helping to develop a guide to Flex models (HyFlex and BlendFlex) for World Education’s IDEAL Consortium. He has been the lead author with Carmine Stewart of Blended Learning for the Adult Education Classroom published by Essential Education, and a co-author with Dr. Jen Vanek of “Technology for Innovation and Change in Adult Basic Skills Education,” a chapter in Turning Points: Recent Trends in Adult Basic Literacy, Numeracy, and Language Education, Jossey-Bass, Fall 2017. Also with Jen Vanek, he is co-author of The What, Why, Who, and How of Blended Learning for Adult Basic Skills Learners published online in May 2020, by New Readers Press. For several years, he was the author of the COABE Journal's technology column and is now the author of the Technology Solutions column in the Adult Literacy Education journal published by ProLiteracy. Click here for meeting information. The presentation will last approximately 30 minutes, with time for questions. The monthly board meeting will follow the webinar. We hope you can join us! |
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