CAEAA Conference 2010: Professional Development It’s now available 24/7!

1. CAEAA Conference 2010: Professional DevelopmentIt’s now available 24/7! CDE Leadership Projects Pat Rickard, CASAS Mariann Fedele, CALPRO Marian Thacher, OTAN

2. Adult Education Leadership Projects • Funded by WIA Title II to provide services and support to adult education programs for improving programs and student learning outcomes. • CALPRO: Professional Development • CASAS: Assessment, Accountability, and Evaluation • OTAN: Technology and Distance Learning

3. Why 24/7 Professional Dev.? • More and more education is going online • Online learning is a required skill • We have a new digital social environment • Social networking • Mobile phones • User-created content • Virtual worlds

4. Why 24/7 Professional Dev.? • In this climate of low/no budget for PD • No travel time or cost • Anyone can access any time from anywhere • Easier to get information to a dispersed and fragmented staff

5. What are the challenges? • We need to offer timely, engaging, interactive PD opportunities • Instructors and staff are getting used to online learning and interaction • Matching offerings to needs without the interactions we are used to

6. Online Workshops • Online workshops • 37 topics • Offered several times each year • Some are recorded and posted • www.CAAdultEdTraining.org

7. Administrators Forum, DL Forum • Administrators Forum, Distance Learning Forum • Live online sessions • Recorded and posted for later viewing • Handouts, links, support materials available • www.otan.us/AdminForum/ • www.otan.us/DistanceLearning/forum/

8. ABE Initiative

9. ABE Initiative • Group discussions • Posted documents • Calendar • Member pages • Blogs • Links • Photos, video • Polls

10. Course Hosting with Moodle • Moodle site for any instructor • Orientation and training • Networking • Tech support • Sharable courses • coming soon

11. TIMAC • Technology training and mentoring • Mentors support site mentors support colleagues • Site-based projects • Networking and statewide connections • Application available March 1

12. TIMAC – the 24/7 part • Web site • Blog • Wiki • Videos www.otan.us/timac

13. CASAS

14. CASAS Professional Development: Spring 2010 • Workshops via Genesys Web Conferencing • CASAS Self-paced courses via Moodle • Face to face training in March-April Professional Development

15. Genesys Web Conferencing • Over 60 Web-based topics now available • CASAS Resources • CASAS Implementation including e-Test • California Accountability, • EL Civics • TOPSpro • New titles with more detailed descriptions of technical concepts

16. CASAS Self-Paced Courses 7/24 Available starting February 2010: • CASAS Initial Implementation Training • CASAS Beyond Implementation Training • CASAS Appraisal Testing • CASAS eTests Basics *New* • Using Assessment for Classroom Lesson Planning *New*

17. Workforce Skills Certification System (WSCS) • Pilot project: part of the California ABE Initiative • A partnership of two national validated skill measurement systems • CASAS – applied academic skills • Learning Resources, Inc. (LRI) – applied soft skills

18. Workforce Skills Certification System (WSCS)- Cont’d • Goal: promote transition of adult ABE and ASE students into the workforce. • Integrate soft skills instruction in ABE • Provide WSCS profiles of student applied academic and soft skills for job search activities • Strengthen communication between adult education and local WIB’s • Create more successful and seamless pathways between adult education and the workplace

19. California Winter Consortium • Internet video –Debra Jones and field panel discuss 08-09 WIA II performance, successful practices, and setting local performance goals • Also focus on • NRS Performance goals for 09-10, • transitions to the workplace and post-secondary education and training • Video available for viewing in early March

20. CASAS 2010 Summer Institute • June 17-19, 2010 (Thursday – Saturday) • Keynote: Dr. Brenda Dann Messier, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education • Successful transition models, WIA re-authorization, connection with workforce partners • CASAS eTests and TOPSpro Enterprise • Promising Practices/Making a Difference Awards • Go to https://www.casas.org/si/ for details

21. 24/7Professional Development 2009-10 catalog available www.calpro-online.org

22. CALPRO 24/7 Modalities • Facilitated Online Courses • Self-Directed Online Courses • Webinars, Online Workshops, Virtual Meetings • Virtual Workroom for Multilevel ESL Instructors and electronic Professional Learning Communities (e-PLC)

23. Online Courses • Self-Directed Courses • Orientation for New ABE Teachers • Orientation for New ESL Teachers • Learner Goal Setting • Facilitated Courses • 15 classes offered on eight different topics • Content experts facilitate discussions over four weeks • Asynchronous format allows flexibility in accessing course content and interacting with colleagues New!

24. New Self-Directed Course Learner Goal Setting

25. Webinars • Two per CALPRO asynchronous course • Administrators Forum series: • The I-BEST Model for Transition to Work, 2/18 • http://www.caadultedtraining.org • CA College Transition series

26. Post-Secondary Transitions Webinar Series • December 1, 2009: Follow up to Institute and Summit • January 26, 2010: Curriculum and Instruction • February 23, 2010: Counseling and Support • March 30, 2010: Collaborations and Partnerships Tuesdays from 2:30-3:30

29. Virtual Workroom and related e-PLC

30. Centerpiece: New Podcast Series Audio podcast series Sample pre-listening page

31. Application Activities linked to e-PLC

32. e-PLC

33. Synchronous On-line Learning Study Circle Facilitators Training • Learner Persistence in the ESL and ABE Classrooms • Research-Based Reading Instruction • Six hours of training all on-line and in real time • Register by February 5th www.calpro-online.org

34. Synchronous On-line Learning Managed Enrollment On-Line Workshop • Agency teams of 3-5 • Training all on-line and in real time • Offered in Spring • Look for updates and announcements www.calpro-online.org

35. Contextualized Workforce Instruction Building a Career Pathway for Adult Learners to the Workforce and to Workforce Credentialing Post-Secondary Contextualized Workforce Instruction in the ABE Classroom and Contextualized Workforce Instruction in the ESL Classroom Spring 2010 Launch and June 2010 Training-of-Trainers

36. Regionally Offered Workshops • CALPRO is coordinating agency-based regionally offered workshops across the state: 30 to date • Workshops listed on the CA Adult Ed Training and CALPRO online events calendar • Information about how to host a regionally offered training at: www.calpro-online.org