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[ProfessionalDevelopment 2716] Re: Online Teaching PD Workgroup and AALPDPedro Contreras americanhispanicschool.edu at gmail.comMon Dec 29 18:01:34 EST 2008
WE MUST MAKE A SURVEY ABOUT POTENTIAL STUDENTS COMPUTER SKILLS. American Hispanic NON PUBLIC School delivers the Adult High School Completion - 9-12 an High School Diploma and workplace readiness & Character education at partner private schools. I wonder how many adults have the computer skills to benefit of Distance Learning. [*PROFESSOR CONTRERAS* On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jackie A. Taylor <jackie at jataylor.net>wrote: > Hi All, > You should know that the AALPD is interested in supporting smaller > communities of practice or "PD workgroups" to advance professional > development initiatives. AALPD has just begun developing a Web portal > for Building Professional Development Communities of Practice: > http://www.aalpd.org/news.html I hope Debra Hargrove will share more > about that and our need to enlist the networking savvy to join in this > new initiative. > > So as we think about moving forward with the online teaching PD work > group David describes below, also consider ways this group might > regularly involve all of us in exploring the issues and sharing back > what they develop with us. > > Keep the good ideas coming! > > Best...Jackie > > Jackie Taylor, Online Facilitator, jackie at jataylor.net > Adult Literacy Professional Development > > Adult Literacy and Language Learning Communities of Practice > http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/discussions.html > National Institute for Literacy www.nifl.gov > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: djrosen1 [mailto:djrosen1 at gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:40 PM > To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List > Subject: Online Teaching PD Workgroup > > Hi Crystal, > > Thanks for your informative post. Does GED-i also provide GED-i > teachers with training online (or in a blended training model) to > teach GED-i students online? Although it may not have been clear, I > was suggesting that there may be a small group of PD-ers interested > in working to develop a design or a model for training teachers to > teach online students, a design that is aligned with the newly > developed AALPD PD standards and that also draws on best practicies > from those who have been training teachers (online) to teach students > online or in blended learning models. > > So far, I have heard from three people who are interested in forming > such an (online) work group. Crystal, would you also like to join > this work group? Are there others who would like to join? If so, > email me and I will be glad to send everyone who is interested an > email with the names and email addresses of those who are interested > so we can get started. > > David J. Rosen > djrosen1 at gmail.com > > On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Crystal Hack wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I would be more than willing to be a part of a small discussion > > group on this. > > > > The GED-i does almost all of our PD online or at a distance. We > > began to offer PD online/at-a-distance as a direct response to the > > cut in our adult education budgets, our limited PD staff time > > available to travel around the state of IL and to other states. We > > needed to save our project $s and time and save our adult ed > > provider $s and time away from the classroom as well. > > > > We provide the following at a distance PD and have provided it to > > IL and our other partner state users for several years. > > A variety of phone conference PD opportunities (these are very well > > received and attended). > > Several online chat opportunities using tappedin.org (we used to > > use yahoo but have switched to tappedin for a variety of reasons > > that I can share). > > Email follow up to F2F trainings to extend the learning process and > > provide further support to our users. > > Online email trainings that range in length from 3 weeks to 6 weeks > > that are geared toward administrators (program leadership), > > coordinators, and instructors. > > Full day, half day, and one hour video conference trainings and > > training follow ups are also a part of our offerings as well. > > Online email mentoring for a 12 week period that follows our F2F > > training or our email trainings. > > Two online courses are also available, although they are fairly > > labor intensive and require a much higher level of commitment than > > the other at-a-distance offerings we provide our users. > > When we started this we had a hard time filling our at a distance > > PD and offered about a equal amount of F2F and at a distance > > trainings. Now we offer about 90% online and have waiting lists > > for our PD and have to go as far as having repeat offerings that > > were unscheduled to accommodate those who want to take part. We > > have learned a lot offering PD at a distance. We have definitely > > evolved our registration, training, tracking, and follow up > > processes as well as the structure of the PD we do. > > > > Let me know if there are questions and if you would like me to be > > involved in further discussion of this topic. > > > > Crystal > > > > -- > > Center for the Application of Information Technologies > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "djrosen1" <djrosen1 at gmail.com> > > To: "The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List" > > <professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov> > > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:12:26 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada > > Central > > Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2703] Re: Economic Stimulus and > > Professional Development > > > > Colleagues, > > > > On Dec 27, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Jackie A. Taylor wrote: > > > > So, a few questions: > > > > What are the considerations for professional development if the > > $500 million stimulus for adult education became an immediate reality? > > > > * Massachusetts many years ago decided that 10% of its state and > > federal adult education funding should be used for professional > > development. I think that's a guideline that should be recommended > > to other states in all new federal funding. > > > > * We (professional developers, practitioners) need federal funding > > for a national research center specifically for adult literacy > > education (like NCSALL). > > > > What additional models already exist that we can learn from? > > > > One of the adult literacy education delivery models that has great > > promise, but that will require significant new and additional > > professional development ,is online learning. This is especially > > useful for programs that involve initial face-to-face training and/ > > or education and then job placement, where there is still need for > > continued education once the person is working, but because of the > > work schedule there is not much opportunity to attend classes. A > > blended model, that involves some face-to-face, perhaps one or two > > Saturdays a month, and 4-10 hours a week of online learning might > > be an ideal model for some people in this situation. Currently > > there are very few adult literacy education teachers who have been > > trained to do online learning well. If online or blended learning > > significantly expands, there will be a "labor shortage" of these > > teachers. > > > > How would we get up and running as quickly as possible? > > > > We are now close to having final AALPD standards for professional > > development. Using those standards as a touchstone, and the > > knowledge gained by Project IDEAL, the Health Care Learning Network > > in Massachusetts, The McDonald's Corporation's English Under the > > Arches, programs that have used English for All (and now USA > > Learns) and other online and blended learning models, perhaps we > > could discuss here -- and archive on the ALE Wiki -- some design > > principles, objectives and content areas for training/professional > > development in online teaching. Has someone already done (or begun) > > that? > > > > If there were a small group of people who were interested not just > > in discussing this, but also working on developing a PD design for > > online adult literacy education teaching, perhaps they could > > organize themselves in an online workgroup (using Officezilla, > > Community Zero, a Google or Yahoo group and/or a wiki). We could > > discuss that here, too. > > > > > > David J. Rosen > > DJRosen at theworld.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David J. 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