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Session Handouts
The 2009 PAACE Midwinter Conference featured many excellent sessions and roundtable discussions. Presenters had the option to submit their handouts electronically for posting to the website. Below are the handouts and presentations submitted to date. Free software is available to open 
Adobe PDF files.
Presenters can submit handouts to be posted to this website by sending files (PDF preferred) to Destiny Long (dlong@tiu11.org) by March 15, 2009. Be sure to include your name and session title.
Sessions are listed by primary audience.
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Providing Informed Instructional Choices for ABE and GED Learners through a Participatory Syllabus Approach During this interactive presentation, participants develop an ABE/GED syllabus. The participatory approach integrates the adult learners’ goal of passing the GED Tests and builds an awareness of the need for post secondary education or further training and transition skills development. Primary Audience: Adult Basic and Secondary Education |
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Serving Young Adults in Adult Education Programs: Strategies and Materials This seventy-five minute presentation will address strategies and materials for serving young adults (16-21) in adult education programs. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the needs of this population and the instructional implications in classrooms. Primary Audience: Adult Basic and Secondary Education |
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Asking Questions, Getting Answers: Setting the Right Pace with
ABLE practitioners are using a civic engagement instructional strategy to help adults learn to think critically, generate questions, and participate in decisions affecting them. Hear from the teachers implementing this strategy. Learn more about the RQP initiative and the
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"Sweet Protection" - Fun with Decimals, Fractions and Percents This hands-on math workshop will provide materials to be used for adult education teachers and tutors. The activities will furnish interesting, creative teaching techniques involving decimals, fractions, and percents. Handouts on all materials presented will be available to participants. Primary Audience: Adult Basic and Secondary Education |
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Just in Time Tutor Orientation Update This session will describe and briefly demonstrate a new approach to preparing volunteer tutors. Pre-service training is reduced to 3 hours and ongoing support is provided. Update on status of pilot program will be presented. Primary Audience: Adult Literacy |
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What Do You Do When a Nonreader Walks into Your Class? Learn how to teach an adult nonreader to quickly begin to learn to read. Enable them to have immediate feelings of success and therefore hope as they master beginning reading skills. Primary Audience: Adult Literacy |
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Mayor’s Commission on Literacy Technical Assistance for UWSEPA Adult Literacy Baseline Standards Project One of the purposes of this panel presentation is to introduce participants to the
Primary Audience: Adult Literacy |
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Keeping Up with Adult Education Through Creative Writing Creative writing is a workshop where participants will have the opportunity to try writing exercises from prompts that are affordable, easily obtained, and effective in stimulating independent learning. How creative writing benefits the Learner will be discussed. Primary Audience: Adult Literacy |
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College for a Day: College Is a Possibility for Everyone Learn how a postsecondary institution can provide a hands-on, informative experience to prepare non-traditional students with the information they need to successfully transition into and navigate the community college environment. We will use The Interactive Model of Program Planning and discuss mistakes made and lessons learned. Primary Audience: Continuing Higher Education |
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Advocacy Now! In this session we will share experiences, methods, and suggestions for encouraging participation in advocacy at the federal and state levels that can help bring about real change for our students and programs. Primary Audience: Public Policy |
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Help Wanted: Knowledge Workers Needed To advance adult literacy we must raise awareness about the importance of this issue. This roundtable discussion will explore effective strategies for telling the adult literacy story in a compelling, creative manner and engaging a wide range of stakeholders in advancing solutions. Primary Audience: Public Policy |
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Keeping PAACE with Hiring Practices Adult education programs can be challenged to find qualified employees. In an interactive format, participants will explore hiring practices and use the Foundation Skills Framework to develop behavior-based questions and demonstrations that can be documented by hiring competency scorecards. Primary Audience: Research |
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