Overall Conference Schedule:
Plan Out Your Daily Schedule - 2012 Conference Program is Now Posted
| Wednesday, May 9 |
11:15 am-12:30 pm |
- PBS– So much more than Sesame Street!
- Transition: Classroom or Corrections to Work, Education, and Daily Life
- American Literacy X
- Ventures ESOL and Technology
- Higher-Order Thinking Skills: Using Advance Organizers to Support Instruction
- The U.S. Naturalization Test: Teaching Objectives
- Unlocking Your Wisdom
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11:15 am-12:30 pm |
- Guidance Counselors as Heroes
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2:00 pm-3:15 pm |
- Uncovering the Logic of English
- Effective Instruction – Reading and Writing
- ESOL for Low Literacy Level Students
- Let's Make Student Success EASY!
- 10 Innovate Ways to Connect Learning with Career Pathways
- English for Health: Developing and Promoting Health Literacy Partnerships
- Administrators’ Roundtable
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| 3:45 pm-5:00 pm |
- Introductory ESOL Class
- Non Profit Boards, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Yes, You Can! Enhancing Student Tech Skills and Goal Setting Using Web 2.0 Tools
- Strategies for ABE/GED Classes
- Promising Practices (Health Literacy Panel)
- Social Media: Marketing made easy
- Using Apps to Engage Reluctant Readers and Teach Literacy
- The Adult Learner Experience: Learning From the Successes and Challenges of Others
- Building A Local Database to Enhance Adult Career Pathways
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| Thursday, May 10 |
9:00 am-10:15 am |
- Helping Adult Learners Hit the Bull's-eye: Targeting Services to Meet Real-World Challenges
- Bringing up Taboo Topics in the ESOL/GED Classroom
- The Power of Testing: Why, What and Who to Assess
- An Update from the Florida Department of Education
- Health Literacy: Challenges & Solutions
- The Top Ten Components of Building an Adult Education Career Pathways Program
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10:30 am-11:45 am |
- The Perfect Family
- English In Pinellas County...DVDs for EL Civics
- When Words Count: Fostering Story Writing in Adult Learners
- Empowering Adults to Fill Their Own Learning Gaps
- Six Literacy Coaches' Beliefs about How to Teach Reading
- Technology Skills for Career Success
- Literacy, Language and Access Issues for Medically Underserved Population
- Online Tutor Training Course: Helping Organizations Train Participants at Their Leisure
- Making Money Work for You
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1:30 pm-2:45 pm |
- Learning to Read: Why It’s So Hard for Some Adults.
- Teaching Soft Skills in ABE
- English for Career and Technical Education Standards
- How Computer-mediated Communication Increases All Literacy Levels
- Funding Alert! From the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy (BBFFL)
- Reading For Meaning - Fluently
- Using Print Around Us to Teach Adult Literacy Learners
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3:45 pm-4:45 pm |
- Open Minds: The Latest Research on Adult Learner Outcomes
- Connected Learner and Free Online Tools
- Applying for Grants 101
- Differentiated Instruction – Teaching Metaphor
- The Effective Instruction of Explicit, Systematic Phonics
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| Friday, May 11 |
8:30 am-9:45 am |
- Recruitment & Retention
- Teaching with Mindfulness
- Applying a Health Literacy Lens to Learning Materials
- ProLiteracy Education Network: Free Resources for Adult Literacy Programs
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10:00 am-11:15 am |
- Prime Time is Family Time
- Strategic Reading Instruction to Improve Comprehension of Struggling Readers
- Decoding Multisyllabic Words
- Florida Adult & Technical Distance Education Making
- F2F Classes for Online Students a Reality
- Say What?
- Revisiting the Public Library as an Oasis of Learning
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*This is a tentative schedule. |