Welcome to CASAS Assessment Update Training - Math GOALS 2. This training will provide you with an overview of the new Math GOALS 2 assessment series, including new reports and competency blueprints. Participants will explore the standards and sample reports.
Audience: Directors, Program Facilitators, and GED/CDP/ABE Math Teachers
Estimated Completion Time: 2 hours
Welcome to CASAS Assessment Update Training - Reading and Listening STEPS. This training will provide you with an overview of the new Reading and Listening STEPS assessment series, including new reports and competency blueprints. Participants will explore the standards and sample reports.
Audience: Directors, Program Facilitators, and ESL Teachers
Audience: All Adult Education Professionals
Estimated Completion Time: 4 hours
Learn how to use Burlington English management tools to add, remove, and manage students’ access to Burlington English. Create personal goals for teacher and student usage.This training is a CSDE-supported initiative and is being provided to adult education agencies in CT at no cost.
Audience: Burlington English Administrators*
Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour
Learn about Burlington English’s comprehensive curriculum for adult learners which focuses on rigorous academic preparation, civics knowledge, career readiness, and technology integration at all levels and areas of instruction. CCR and ELP Standards are incorporated into the Burlington curriculum at every level, to provide a foundation for academic rigor. Burlington’s blended curriculum is designed to be used by teachers as an instructional tool and by students for additional reinforcement, in or out of the classroom. This training is a CSDE-supported initiative and is being provided to adult education agencies in CT at no cost.
Audience: Burlington English Directors and/or Program Facilitators
Learn about Burlington Core, our six-level, standards-based, blended curriculum developed especially for adult ESL students. Burlington Core meets federal and state funding requirements and integrates important life skills, digital literacy, EL Civics, and workforce readiness to ensure WIOA success. This training is a CSDE supported initiative and is being provided to adult education agencies in CT at no cost.
Audience: Burlington English Teachers
Audience: ESL Teachers
ELPS 101 is a prerequisite for ELPS 102.
Welcome to ATDN's interactive NEDP Refresher Training. This on-demand course is designed to revisit the policies, procedures, and practices integral to the NEDP program, including the specific roles and responsibilities of the Assessor and Portfolio Reviewer. Upon completion, you will be reinstated as an active NEDP Assessor.
This training is required for any NEDP Assessor who has not been active since 2020. Eligible participants must first receive approval from the CT State Department of Education to enroll.
Explore the CASAS Teacher Portal - a user-friendly, web-based tool that simplifies class and learner management with its intuitive interface. Say goodbye to manual report generation and hello to real-time updates on student and class level reports allowing for personalized instruction and streamlined progress evaluation, especially after post-test. Discover how easy it is to set up the CASAS Teacher Portal and empower teachers to generate their instructional reports to better address learners' needs..
Audience: Program Facilitator and TOPSpro Data Managers
Audience: ABE, CDP and GED Teachers
CCRS ELA 101 is a prerequisite for CCRS ELA 102.
CCRS Math 101 is a prerequisite for CCRS Math 102.
Audience: Program Facilitators
Audience: Digital Navigators
We invite you to participate in an insightful session centered on the innovative ways citizenship educators are utilizing the new USCIS civics textbook, One Nation, One People. This discussion will offer a platform to exchange ideas, share best practices, and explore practical activities to enhance learning experiences in the classroom. To make the most of this session, please watch the video in advance. Doing so will help facilitate meaningful dialogue and ensure you're ready to contribute to the conversation. Please bring any additional resources you'd like to share, along with some of your top teaching tips. This session will be an open discussion centered on collaboration and exchanging ideas with one another. We look forward to your participation!.
Audience: Citizenship Teachers
This training is intended for those using the CCR Standards and who have completed ELA 101 and ELA 102.
This training will teach educators how to align resources with the College & Career Readiness (CCR) Standards, covering best practices for classroom instruction and presenting simple lesson plans. Participants will explore methods to effectively align resources, including integrating multimedia tools, adapting materials, and creating custom activities. Learn how to use a resource alignment tool to assess how well curricular resources align with the CCR Standards and identify actions to fill any alignment gaps. This hands-on training aims to equip teachers with practical skills and tools to enhance their instructional strategies.
Participants will need their own devices as activities and resources will be shared electronically.
Audience: ABE, CDP, and GED Teachers
This session is a continuation of the introduction to teaching English to adults with varied L1 proficiency levels. The second session will delve into the foundational principles of reading. Participants will gain insight on how to help students awareness of oral English - a paramount prerequisite to learning to read. With practical examples and strategies, teachers will leave prepared to foster oral language awareness among students.
Audience: ESL Lead Teachers and ESL Teachers
Note: For those who attended Teaching English to Students with Different Native Languages Literacy Skills on ESL Day, this is a follow-up session that will build on that foundation, with a special focus on print and strategies for incorporating it into your lessons.
In this training, teachers will learn about Burlington English Digital Literacy course. Using your Computer is the learners first step to digital literacy. This training offers a series of short, easy-to-follow animated videos that will help your learners develop basic digital literacy skills and become familiar with the functionality of the Burlington English program.
Audience: BE Administrators and BE Teachers
This training is a CSDE-supported initiative and is being provided to adult education agencies in CT at no cost.
In this training, learn how to help your learners living and working in the United States improve their language skills and gain important life skills using English in America as well as prepare your learners for the Citizenship test. This multilevel training includes a wide range of topic-based modules with a strong EL Civics focus
Northstar allows you to monitor learners' progress and efforts through assessments and learning pathways within the modules. How can you help learners overcome challenges in mastering digital literacy? How can you align their goals to ensure success in their digital literacy journey? This training will focus on effectively extracting and analyzing data to identify potential pitfalls and barriers to growth, providing you with the data to better support your students' digital skill development.
Audience: Administrators, Northstar Admins, Digital Navigators, and Teachers
Participants will learn how to create writing prompts and assignments that are inclusive of various cultural contexts, honoring students' cultural identities while promoting their writing skills and critical thinking. Participants will leave knowing how to Identify and integrate multicultural texts to broaden learners' perspectives, inspire their writing, and connect classroom instruction with real-world contexts.
Audience: ABE, CDP, GED Teachers, Career Navigators and School Counselors
The General Educational Development (GED®) program serves as a crucial pathway for individuals who did not complete traditional high school to earn an equivalent credential. GED Day offers training in key subject areas, including Math, Writing, Science, and Social Studies.
A - Social Studies Spectacular!
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AMPresenter: Presenter: Steven Schmidt, Consultant & LINCS Moderator, Schmidt ConsultingAudience: ABE and GED® Social Studies Teachers, GED Registrars, Directors and Program Facilitators
B - GED Manager & GEDPrep Connect: A Closer Look
C - Will This Be on the Test?
D - Preparing Students for the GED RLA Extended Response
“[Adult learners] struggle because we don’t offer them sufficient opportunities in the classroom to develop the cognitive skills and habits of mind that would prepare them to take on more advanced academic tasks.”—Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Hammond, 2014)
How can we develop these skills and habits in our adult learners? Explore a flexible math unit that uses puzzles and questions with multiple solution paths to engage students in learning about properties of numbers and operations, the meaning of equality, and the power of place value. This unit also builds foundational concepts for algebra: specifically, it lays the groundwork for formal learning about properties, inverse operations, and solving equations. In addition, it can be easily taught in a variety of settings, including corrections programs and/or sites without internet access. Leave with access to the entire unit of instruction.
This resource is one of several reviewed by members of the Standards-in-Action Math Team using the Mathematics Resource Alignment Tool with EL Supports. A portion of the session will be dedicated to reviewing the resource’s alignment to CCR Standards and studying the tool.
Audience: ABE and pre-GED teachers
Note: This is a hybrid training. A separate Zoom link will be included in the course reminder and emailed on the morning of the training.
Join Burlington English in this two-part training to learn about Career Exploration and Soft Skills, where learners learn about career pathways and essential workplace skills, or attend the next session to discover English for Specific Careers, featuring specialized courses with contextualized vocabulary and real-life workplace scenarios to support career success and transitions.
This training series offers an in-depth exploration of how AI technologies can transform the instruction of reading and writing, making these fundamental skills more accessible and engaging for diverse learners. Participants will explore AI tools and platforms, understand AI's role in literacy development and address ethical and practical considerations.
Note: This is a hybrid meeting. A separate Zoom link will be included in the course reminder and emailed on the morning of the training.
This training is intended for those using the ELP Standards and who have completed ELPS 101 and ELPS 102.
This training will teach ESL teachers how to align resources with the ELP Standards, covering best practices for classroom instruction and presenting simple lesson plans based on these standards. Participants will explore various methods to align resources effectively, including integrating multimedia tools, adapting existing materials, and creating custom activities that meet the ELP Standards.