Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h8OCPIV23698; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:25:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:25:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000901c38295$55ce3060$32881a0a@famlit.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Noemi Aguilar" <naguilar@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1675] UNITED NATIONS LITERACY DECADE:LITERACY AS FREEDOM X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 4494 Lines: 85 Celebrating the UNITED NATIONS LITERACY DECADE: LITERACY AS FREEDOM Free: New Professional Development Workshop in Adult Literacy Education For adult literacy educators seeking a deeper understanding of reading instruction and assessment in the field of adult literacy education. A new one day (6 hours) professional development workshop for adult literacy educators wanting to better understand contemporary policy, research, and practice in teaching reading with adults in the United States. Featuring Literacy as Freedom in the United States throughout the last 100 years as a major theme for advocacy. Workshop Title: Adult Reading Instruction and Assessment in the Last 100 Years Presenter: Dr. Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education Schedule: Morning: 9am-12noon Part I: Overview of Policy in Adult Reading including the Reading Excellence Act of 1998: Definitions of "reading" and "scientific research", Workforce Investment Act of 1998: Title 2: Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Partnership for Reading - 2000/2003: Reading Research Working Group Equipped for the Future Reading Project, Reading Research Network-2002: Part 2: Historical and Contemporary Overview of Teaching Reading With Adults: 1910 - 2003 (with examples of books and other teaching materials over the last 100 years). This covers basic methods of teaching reading with adults from the early work of Cora Wilson Stewart in 1910 through the latest work on dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz in 2003. Schedule: 12:00-1:00 Lunch Schedule: 1:00pm-4:00pm Part 3: Assessing the Reading Ability of Adults in the United States including samples of items from every major assessment of adult literacy since World War I when the first widely used standardized "mental tests" for adults were developed, to the internet-based Partnership for Reading: Adult Education Reading Instruction: Reading Assessment Profiles and the new National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) of 2003 Part 4: The Intergenerational Transfer of Literacy From Parents to Children Intergenerational Transfer Statistical Data From 1972 to 1992 including the oracy to literacy transfer phenomenon, and genetic, biological, and socio-economic factors affecting the transfer of literacy across generations. Close of workshop. This workshop is FREE and is extensively illustrated with research-based data and includes implications for advocacy for adult literacy education. SPONSORS PAY only travel expenses for the presenter. NO FEE is charged for the workshop. Sponsors may use the workshop as a fund raising activity if desired. For information about offering this workshop in your area send a message to tsticht@aznet.net or telephone (619) 444-9133. About Tom Sticht In 2003 Dr. Sticht received UNESCO's Mahatma Gandhi medal for his 25 years of voluntary service on UNESCO's International Literacy Prize Jury; in 1997 the Reading Research Quarterly reported that his work and that of Paulo Freire were the two most influential lines of research affecting adult literacy education in the United States in the last thirty years; in 1994 he was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame; and in 1978 he received the International Reading Association's Albert J. Harris Award for research on adult learning disabilities. He is the co-author of McGraw-Hill's 15 volume set of Glencoe Occupational Adult Learning Skills (GOALS) books that integrate vocational, reading, and mathematics education for adults, he developed classroom and computer-based literacy programs for the Army, Navy and Air Force, and he has served on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, the National Governor's Association's Advisory Group for Achieving National Education Goal 6 (adult literacy); the National Commission on Working Women; the Partnership for Reading's Reading Research Working Group, and the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). His work has appeared in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, in London The Times, Daily Mail, and The Guardian, in New Zealand the National Business Review. Contact: Dr. Thomas G. Sticht International Consultant in Adult Education 2062 Valley View Blvd. El Cajon, CA 92019-2059 Tel/fax: (619) 444-9133 Email: tsticht@aznet.net Noemi Aguilar National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main Street, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40202-4237 Phone: 502/584-1133 ext 168 Fax: 502/584-0172 E-mail: naguilar@famlit.org
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