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| WNY Professional Development Consortium (West RAEN) |
| 777 Maryvale Drive, Room 145, Cheektowaga, NY 14225 |
| Phone: (716) 631-1236 Fax: (716) 631-0657 |
Current Workshops
Summer 2009 BEST Plus, BEST Plus Refresher, and BEST Literacy trainings. To register, click on “calendar”, and click on the training date.
BEST Literacy
BEST Literacy is a competency-based assessment that uses a variety of functional literacy tasks to measure English language learner’s ability to read and write. Beginning July 1, 2008, NYS agencies had the option of using this test to additionally assess students with specific BEST Plus scores. In this workshop you will learn what the BEST Literacy Test is, how to administer and score it, and how to interpret those scores in relation to NRS Levels and instructional design. Student work will be used to practice both use of the writing rubric for scoring, and obtaining a final score using a specific formula.
Audience: Appropriate Assessment Staff and Interested Program Administrators
Date: July 30, 9:30 – 12:30
Site: Maryvale Community Education Building, 777 Maryvale Dr, Cheektowaga
Fee: None, although pre-registration is required.
Facilitators: Ann Marie Przybyl, Director, WNYPDC
Deadline: July 20, 2009
BEST Plus
The BEST Plus is an individually administered face-to-face oral interview designed to assess the English language proficiency of adult English language learners. This workshop prepares participants to administer and score the test by providing an overview of the development and purpose of the test, opportunities to practice delivery and scoring, and clarification of administration and scoring issues. Participants will recognize the importance of assessing oral language proficiency and be able to administer and score the test and interpret BEST Plus scores
Audience: Educators and practitioners who will be administering the BEST Plus in
their program
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Lunch is on your own
Site: Erie Community College City Campus (you will have to pay for parking)
Room 462
Facilitator: CAL certified trainers
Fee: $5.00 per person
Deadline: July 15, 2009
BEST Plus Refresher
The BEST Plus Refresher is for experienced BEST Plus Test Administrators. In order to participate, you must have previously been certified and currently practicing as a BEST Plus Test Administrator. Participants will have the opportunity to receive comprehensive scoring review and practice, watch a training video, and discuss BEST Plus Test experiences. Participants are asked to bring their BEST Plus Test Administrators Training Manual and their BEST Plus Scoring Rubric for reference during this workshop.
NYSED requires that all active BEST Plus Test Administrators complete BEST Plus Refresher training annually. Interested program managers are welcome to attend.
Audience: BEST Plus Test Administrators in need of annual certification renewal
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Site: St. John’s Church, 160 Chestnut Street, Lockport NY
Facilitator: CAL certified trainers
Fee: None, although pre-registration is required
Deadline: July 15, 2009
Please note: these three trainings will also be offered in Fall 2009
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click on calendar, go to date of workshop and click on Workshop Title
and you will get description of the workshop. At the end of the description - CONTINUE
fill in registration, add an attendee or CONTINUE
Click on CONFIRM REGISTRATION - (optional: print page)
you will receive confirmation by e-mail
No phone registrations, please!
When Maryvale Schools are closed,
ALL workshops and activities are cancelled.
School Closingswill be made on radio stations WBEN, WKSE (98.5 FM),
WYRK (106.5 FM), and WJYE (96.1 FM)
and on local television stations: 2, 4 & 7
NRS Online is the training site for the National Reporting System for adult education (NRS). This site contains training courses designed for adult education program administrators that explain NRS requirements and courses designed to improve the quality of NRS data collection. You can also use this site as a reference source for the NRS. Courses include NRS Basic Information, Data Quality Courses, and Data Use Courses.
As you proceed through an NRS Course you will encounter content along with a related question. By successfully answering a sequence of questions you will proceed to the end of the course. If your answer to a question is determined to be correct, you will automatically be forwarded to the next question or course page and a note will appear informing you as such. If your answer to a question is determined to be incorrect, you will be forwarded to a page that informs you that your answer was incorrect and gives you a short piece to read that conveys the answer. In order to advance to the next question you will need to correctly answer the current question. Your answers to the questions are stored in the database so that you can return to a course and review your work.
To gain full credit for a course, you will need to complete all questions, print a copy of the course completion page, and forward it to the WNYPDC to receive a Completion Certificate.
You can find the NRS Online Training at http://www.nrsonline.org/
Ongoing Online Course:
Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse Certification
The Medical Society of the State of New York is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education, and is one of several agencies approved by NYSED to offer this course online. After completing this approximately 2 hour course you will have an understanding of what you, as an Educator/Practitioner, need to know about recognizing and reporting child abuse, maltreatment, and neglect. The on line course is well-designed and the website is easy to navigate.
To participate, go to http://www.medcomrn.com/mssny/ and click on course
# MSSNY0102. Follow the instructions. You will be asked to submit a credit card # for the course fee of $29.00.
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