AAACE 2017 Annual Conference

"Adult Education: One Chorus of Many Voices"

October 31 - November 3, 2017

Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel, Memphis, TN

http://aaace.org

2017 National Career Pathways Network CONFERENCE

"Career Pathways: Gateway to the Future"

Thursday and Friday, October 26–27.

Hyatt Regency at the Arch, St. Louis Mo.

RESOURCES

Data Entry Training for ASISTS

ASISTS,the Adult Student Information System and Technical Support is a web-based data management system for the New York State adult literacy programs, and this is the support and training website that contains videos, down-loadable files and quizzes to support data entry staff in their use of the ASISTS data management system.

You can find it at http://asists.wordpress.com/

Adult Education Degree and Credentialing Programs Portal

Many adult educators seek courses and higher education degrees in adult education. However, little has been known about which higher education institutions offer these courses specific to our field. With over 400 unique listings, this Portal is an interactive, one-stop online resource connecting you to higher education degree programs in our field that best meet your professional learning needs.

The Portal will allow you to:
-Easily find program information on higher education degree programs in adult education across the country
Weigh important considerations when choosing the best program fit for you
-Enable you to write and publish reviews of your higher education degree program, like one would review a book on Amazon.com
-Learn more about featured programs and interact with guest bloggers from these programs
-Use social media to share program information with your professional learning networks

-Degree program coordinators can add and update information about their program offerings and participate as guest bloggers on topics of interest to adult education practitioners.

Learn more at www.coabe.org.

This initiative is developed in partnership with TESOL International Association, the American Institutes for Research, the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, the National Adult Educational Professional Development Consortium, and the Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations and is generously funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

EL/Civics Online Training Opportunities

In addition to in-person and on-line EL/Civics workshops offered through ACCES/West RAEN; there are several websites that offer teacher training in this area:

EL/Civics Online
US Dept. of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education.http://www.elcivicsonline.org
This self-paced online course for EL/Civics teachers contains six modules: ESL Foundations, Lesson Planning, US Government, US History, Civic Engagement, and the Naturalization Process. The four civic content modules show teachers how to blend the ESL instructional foundations with the civic content foundations to form the ideal English Literacy/Civics lesson. Each module has model lesson plans and guides teachers to write their own lesson plans with civics content. There are many links to EL/Civics resources and many downloadable handouts.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services http://www.uscis.gov. This website accompanies the definitive Citizenship Preparation materials from the USCIS. ACCES/West RAEN regularly offers training in using the Teacher's Toolkit and accompanying multimedia resources. At this website you will find information on the naturalization process and test and other supplemental classroom-based materials.

The section for teachers includes Classroom Tools (publications, lesson plans, and other supplemental

resources),and Online Training Resources (online training and professional development tools).

National ADA Courses and Tutorials

Free, self-paced web courses available 24/7 that provide an overview of disability rights laws. The courses take approximately 2 hours and include real life scenarios, quizzes and a final exam.

Trainings include:

- ADA Basics Building Blocks

- ADA Employment

- ADA Title II

- At Your Service: Welcoming Customers with Disabilities

- Disability Rights

- Disability and Employment Support Practices

- Federal Court Concepts

Find them http://www.adacourse.org/courses.php