Region V Best Practices
Fulton-Holland Educational Services Center
3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West
Palm Beach, FL 33406
Time: 9:00 am – 12:15 pm
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9:00 - 9:25 Registration
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome Opening
10:10 - 10:55 Concurrent Sessions
11:05 - 11:50 Concurrent Sessions
12:00 - 12:15 Closing Session
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10:55 Concurrent Sessions Successful Pre-GED: Presenter: Tony Lagos Last year Pre-GED was added to Florida’s Course Code Directory. Some districts did well reporting high percentages of LCP’s and others did not. What can we learn from the programs that were successful? How does Pre-GED work best? Learn the basics behind the Pre-GED course and lessons from the early implementing agencies. Reading Strategies for the GED Part 1: Presenter: Carol Charvet & Jan Lichtenwalter Participants will learn strategies based on brain research to help improve reading in the content areas. ESOL Business Realia Program: Presenter: Ana Maria Guadayol Uses real world articles about hot topics in business (leaving a job, negotiating salary increases, creating resumes, etc.). When students are asked to problem-solve, the result is English language acquisition in a real world context. VESOL Civics through Service Learning: Presenter: Marta Bret Uses experiential and service learning activity. Students compile learning portfolios in video, photos and other props. Blue Book Journaling: Presenter: Robert Kelso Addresses testing skills with blue books to enhance reading ability and reduce testing anxiety. This technique was used for Foundation and Level A ESOL classes but could be used in any level. Writing goes from basic journaling to creating conversations between teacher and student. This helps to break down student’s fear of writing in a foreign language in a non-judgmental activity. 11:05 - 11:50 Concurrent Sessions Successful Pre-GED: Presenter: Tony Lagos Last year Pre-GED was added to Florida’s Course Code Directory. Some districts did well reporting high percentages of LCP’s and others did not. What can we learn from the programs that were successful? How does Pre-GED work best? Learn the basics behind the Pre-GED course and lessons from the early implementing agencies. Reading Strategies for the GED Part 2 : Presenter: Carol Charvet & Jan Lichtenwalter Participants will learn strategies based on brain research to help improve reading in the content areas. ESOL & Family Literacy: Greeting Cards & Scrap Booking Project: Presenter: Sharon Kantor Addresses decision-making skills and action plans in a highly creative, non-threatening learning environment. The required LCP checklists for the six levels of ESOL offered were used as a foundation for developing activities and worksheets that culminated in the acts of creating greeting cards and pages in scrapbooks. Addresses family relationships, appropriate responses to situations, dreams and goals, etc. Workforce Readiness/ABE - VESOL 2 & Instructional Manuals: Presenter: Curt Klinghoffer Addresses LCP count for VESOL 2 and Workforce Readiness-ABE using a comprehensive Workplace Readiness Student’s Manual. The standards required in both LCP checklists have many similarities. The combining of the Workforce/Workplace Readiness- ABE component to VESOL 2 class increased the LCP count. The Mobile Lending Library with the VESOL Program: Presenter: Stephen Moir Provides a lending library to enhance reading ability at appropriate levels to demonstrate the reading comprehension . Students write a book report and/or give an oral presentation. Students progressed to higher level during the semester.
Teachers will receive numerous materials created by the presenters to use in the classroom. You will receive a copy of the “Best Practices” CD-ROM. This CD-Rom contains a learning matrix composed of all the “best practices” selected in 2002-2003 in Region V. The CD-ROM also contains: 1) over 190 GED lesson plans 2) manuals for volunteers working in literacy; 3) ABE reading guides, resources and activities for the 0.00-3.00 level reader; 4) exemplary program materials from Palm Beach schools; and 5) the winners of the American Success Stories in Region V. |
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