Hello Jenny and others,

On May 22, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Davis, Jennifer wrote:

> I work for one of the adult education resource centers in Ohio.  My  

> center specializes in Reading & Writing.  For FY09, we are going to  

> focus our reading PD offerings on vocabulary.

>

>  I have been researching online trainings and other resources.  We  

> have been involved in STAR, and I am well versed in Thinkfinity  

> courses and the NCSALL pieces.  Are there any trainings/videos/ 

> resources members of this list would recommend?

>


Jenny, one small piece that might be useful to you is a video window  
into an ABE classroom where ABE teacher, Wendy Quinones -- in the   
Adult Fluency and Vocabulary videos -- uses a teaching technique  
created by Lesley University's Mary Beth Curtis. Wendy also refers in  
one video to the NCSALL Adult Reading Component Study (ARCS). These  
three short videos are part of the Media Library of Teaching Skills  
(MLoTS), a currently small, free, online video library of adult basic  
education (including literacy, numeracy and adult secondary  
education) and ESOL classes and tutorials. MLoTS is designed for  
adult literacy education professional developers to use in face-to- 
face and online PD courses, workshops and program-based PD.

Recently my MLoTS videographer colleague and I video recorded several  
teachers in Vermont and Massachusetts and we anticipate adding those  
new videos to the MLoTS web site in the next few weeks. We are also  
available to video classrooms and tutorials in other states, and to  
train teacher teams to video record each others' classrooms which we  
then edit.

We plan to develop short, program-based PD study group formats based  
on some of these videos that would enable a group of teachers, led by  
another teacher at the same program, to view and discuss the videos  
and the evidence, theory and/or content standards upon which teaching  
approaches are based. We envision each workshop lasting 45-minutes to  
an hour, with the video, study group outlines and materials available  
on the MLoTs Web site. We are particularly interested in this model  
because it might enable part-time teachers (the great majority of the  
adult literacy education teachers in the U.S.)  to participate.

The Adult Fluency and Vocabulary videos and other classroom videos  
that we have made will be found at http://mlots.org
A collection of adult education videos made by others in our field  
will be found on the Other Adult Learning Videos page, linked in the  
upper right hand corner of this web page.

If you know of other good, non-commercial classroom or tutorial  
videos that are not linked on the MLoTS Other Adult Learning Videos  
page, please let me know about them. We may be able to get permission  
to digitize and host or link them in the MLoTS.

Our hope for MLoTS is to have a free one-stop video resource for  
adult literacy education professional developers and teachers. How  
many videos do we hope to have? Mmm -- Lots!

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/professionaldevelopment/attachments/20080523/55eeea7f/attachment.html