Here are two online professional development opportunities—Study Circle: Research-based Adult Reading Instruction and Multiple Intelligences and Differentiated Instruction—that your teachers and tutors might be interested in taking. Please feel free to forward the announcement to anyone who might be interested. 

Kaye

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Study Circle: Research-based Adult Reading Instruction

Course Dates: September 25–November 19, 2008; chats on October 8 and October 29 at 12:30 or 1:30 pm EDT and November 19 at 12:30 pm or 1:30 pm EST

Course Description 
The Research-based Adult Reading Instruction Study Circle is designed to engage practitioners of adult basic education (ABE), adult secondary education (ASE), and English-for-speakers-of‐other-languages (ESOL) in discussing theories and concepts related to reading instruction. Questions about what research says about teaching adults how to read are particularly relevant as programs and teachers struggle with choosing the most effective ways to develop adults’ reading skills.

Objectives 

During this study circle, you will:

•          Think about and share your own perspectives on teaching reading and discuss the research on reading with others.

•          Then look more in-depth at the reading research, who adult readers are, and how reading research can be applied to reading instruction.

•          Identify how to assess adults’ reading skills and what adult students should know about the reading process. 

•          Develop an action plan for using what you learn in your own practice.

Course Format and Schedule: facilitated, online

During this eight-week course, you will work on team projects, engage in self-paced activities and readings, as well as asynchronous discussions with the facilitator and course participants. Chats are scheduled for October 8 and October 29 at 12:30 or 1:30 pm EDT and November 19 at 12:30 pm or 1:30 pm EST.

Course Overview: Download at http://professionalstudiesae.worlded.org/pdf/reading_sc_overview.pdf 

Course Facilitator: Kaye Beall

Estimated Completion Time: 20–24 hours

Fee: $249.00 (negotiated group rates available)

Registration: Complete and return the registration form, which you can download at http://professionalstudiesae.worlded.org/pdf/reading_reg.pdf. Payment must be received prior to enrollment. Registration is limited to 20 participants.

Cancellation policy: World Education reserves the right to cancel the course if the minimum number of registrants is not met by September 10, 2008. 

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Adult Multiple Intelligences and Differentiated Instruction

Course Dates: October 13–December 12, 2008; Online chats during Lessons 3, 4, and 5

Course Description 
Research conducted by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy shows that instructional practices inspired by Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory resulted in high levels of authentic instruction and student engagement. 

Integrate your understanding of Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory with the power of differentiated instruction in this facilitated, eight-session course. You’ll learn how to apply MI theory and differentiate instruction for all levels of adult basic education and English for speakers of other languages. The facilitator will guide you as you develop your own MI-based lessons. 

Objectives 

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

  *Apply the theory of multiple intelligences (MI) to design learning activities that match your learning objectives 

  *Use varying methods of differentiated instruction (DI) that address the different skills and interests of your learners

  *Apply knowledge of your own MI profile to your classroom teaching

  *Produce and reflect on a lesson or unit using both MI and DI 

Required Text: 

Viens, Julie and Silja Kallenbach. Multiple Intelligences and Adult Literacy: A Sourcebook for Practitioners. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2004. Copies of the required textbook can be obtained from the publisher, Teachers College Press (TCP), the publisher at http://store.tcpress.com/0807743461.shtml. The cost is $27.95 per copy.Bottom of Form

Course Format and Schedule: facilitated, online 
During this eight-week course, you will engage in self-paced activities and readings, as well as asynchronous discussions with the facilitators and course participants. Three synchronous chats will be scheduled during Lessons 3, 4, and 5.  

Course Overview: Download at http://professionalstudiesae.worlded.org/pdf/midi_overview.pdf. 

Course Facilitator: Wendy Quiñones 

Estimated Completion Time: 40 hours

Fee: $249.00 (negotiated group rates available)

Registration: Complete and return the registration form, which you can download at http://professionalstudiesae.worlded.org/pdf/midi_reg.pdf. Payment must be received prior to enrollment. Registration is limited to 20 participants.

Cancellation policy: World Education reserves the right to cancel the course if the minimum number of registrants is not met by September 29, 2008

 

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Kaye Beall

Project Director

World Education

6760 West Street

Linn Grove, IN 46711

765-717-3942

kaye_beall at worlded.org

www.worlded.org

 

 

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