College Ready – Transitional Teaching Techniques for Beyond the GED, Session 1: Transitional Writing

Friday, March 19, 2010

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

LOCATION
Trinity Cathedral and Commons

2230 Euclid Avenue

*There is a free parking entrance on Prospect Avenue at East 22nd Street

DATE

Friday, March 19, 2010

PRESENTER
Carmine Burkette, RS Hart and Partners- Assessment & Evaluation Consulting, associate director

DESCRIPTION
What exactly does it mean for students to be "college ready?" What skills do college and university faculty members say that incoming students lack? What can adult literacy instructors do within the confines of the literacy classroom to help equip students with the requisite skills for continuing education?

These workshops will answer all of those questions and more. They are hands-on, train the trainer sessions, which will allow instructors and tutors to learn to extend the GED curriculum.

• We will review the most pertinent research in the field indicating best practices in adult literacy
• We will explore examples of what those best practices look like during reading, writing, and math instruction.
• We will see real examples of how to teach GED content in a way that allows you to extend student knowledge beyond GED level.

Tutors and instructors will leave with a sample of anticipatory sets that they can immediately implement to introduce content to students. These mini lessons will make excellent supplements to your instruction. Participants are encouraged to register for individual workshops or the entire series.

This session is on Transitional Writing. Beyond the 5 paragraph essay; this session will focus upon how to incorporate writing in ways that will help prepare students for college composition.

REGISTRATION
Space is limited to 30 participants.  To register, contact Sarah Upperman by phone, 216-393-4549, or by email, supperman@literacycooperative.org