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2012 SESSIONS

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

11:15 am-12:30 pm

  • Guidance Counselors as Heroes

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
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*This is a tentative schedule.




 

 

 

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