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Part One - Recorded - Making the Connection: Matching Adult Learners to Appropriate Instructional Technology
This self-directed PD activity is a half-hour recorded training designed to provide a framework for ... |
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Accountability |
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Beginning ABLELink Training - Alternative Delivery
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Assessment |
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BEST Plus Refresher Scoring Toolkit
The BEST Plus Scoring Refresher Toolkit is intended for use by trained BEST Plus administ... |
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CASAS Implementation Training
In order to administer any of the approved CASAS tests, ABLE staff are required to complete the CASA... |
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How to Plan & Administer TABE 9 & 10 - DVD
This alternative delivery professional development activity may be done individually or in a... |
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How to Plan & Administer TABE 9 & 10 - VHS
This alternative delivery professional development activity may be done individually or in a... |
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How to Plan & Administer TABE 9 & 10 - DVD
This alternative delivery professional development activity may be done individually or in a group. ... |
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How to Plan & Administer TABE 9 & 10 GROUP TRAINING - DVD
This alternative delivery professional development activity is a group training. 1. View t... |
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How to Plan & Administer TABE 9 & 10 GROUP TRAINING -VHS
This alternative delivery professional development activity is a group training. 1. View t... |
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How to Plan & Administer Tabe 9 & 10 - VHS
This alternative delivery professional development activity may be done individually or in a group. ... |
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Portfolio: Connecting Policy and Practice
Description: This alternative training provides participants with a power point and documents utiliz... |
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TABE CLAS-E Refresher Course
This activity is meant as a refresher for participants of the face-to-face TABE CLAS-E (Complete Lan... |
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WorkKeys Supervisor Training Modules
The documents and modules in this training program cover all aspects of test coordination. If you ha... |
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WorkKeys Test Administrator Training
Your role as a staff member at a WorkKeys testing center requires that you have an active understand... |
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Culture |
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
This alternative dlivery professional development iopportunity is for all GED/ESOL teachers and dire... |
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty - Audio book
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all GED/ESOL teachers and dire... |
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty - the Book
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all GED/ESOL teachers and dire... |
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Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals & Communities - The Audio Book
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABLE directors, teachers a... |
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Bridges Out Of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals & Communities
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABLE directors, teachers a... |
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Culturally Proficient Instruction: A Guide for People Who Teach
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all GED/ESOL teachers and dire... |
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Destination America: The People and Cultures That Created a Nation
This alternative delivery training is appropriate for all teachers, but especially for those teachin... |
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Emotions! Targeting the Critical Prerequisite to Learning
Presented via video on dvd, Laura Weisel introduces participants to critical information regarding b... |
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married ... |
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Refugee Resettlement: Home Across Lands (DVD)
This documentary film explores the resettlement journey of a small group of Kunama refugees of Eritr... |
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The Mango Season
This alternative delivery training is appropriate for all teachers, but especially for those teachin... |
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The Sound of Language
This alternative delivery training is appropriate for all teachers, but especially for those teachin... |
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ESOL |
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Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond
Adult language learners have specific learning goals that reflect their lives within a global societ... |
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Creating Book Clubs in the English Language Classroom
This alternative delivery professional development activity can be completed easily at home and in y... |
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Cultural Orientation for Refugees
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ESOL teachers and director... |
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Do You Speak American?
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all GED and ESOL teachers. ... |
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English Language Teaching in Action Teaching Grammar & Vocabulary
Teaching Grammar & Vocabulary is a video that features 8 grammar lessons and 8 voca... |
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English Language Teaching in Action: Games & Activities
Games & Activities is a video that features 15 lessons providing step by step instr... |
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English Language Teaching in Action: Productive Skills - Writing & Speaking
Productive Skills: Writing & Speaking is a video that features 6 lessons on writin... |
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English Language Teaching in Action: Pronunciation & Teaching Techniques
Pronunciation & Teaching Techniques is a video that features 5 lessons on pronuncia... |
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English Language Teaching in Action: Receptive Skills: Reading & Listening
Receptive Skills: Reading & Listening is a video that features 9 lessons on readin... |
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Learners' Lives as Curriculum - Six Journeys to Immigrant Literacy
Gail Weinstein, Ph.D. shares her experiences and the experiences of six Community Based Organization... |
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Little Bee Book Club
This alternative delivery training is appropriate for all teachers, but particularly useful to those... |
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Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners
This practitioner toolkit contains resources and tools for professionals working with adults and fam... |
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PreLiteracy in ESOL: Video (Lost Boys)
Lost Boys of Sudan follows two teenage Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from... |
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PreLiteracy in ESOL: Video (Rain in a Dry Land)
Rain in a Dry Land is a tale of two remarkable families, refugees from the 1991 civil war ... |
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Teacher Training: Future English for Results Classroom Demos
This teacher training DVD contains 12 classroom demonstrations of lessons taught on a variety of ski... |
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Teaching ESL to Adults: Classroom Approaches in Action, Volume one
The New American Horizons video series illustrates effective teaching practices through real classes... |
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Teaching ESL to Adults: Classroom Approaches in Action, Volume Two
The New American Horizons video series illustrates effective teaching practices through real classes... |
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Teaching ESL to Adults: Classroom Approaches in Action. Volume Three
The New American Horizons video series illustrates effective teaching practices through real classes... |
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The Immigrant's Way
This alternative delivery training is appropriate for all teachers, but especially for those teachin... |
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The Visitor (the movie)
This intriguing drama revolves around a college professor who has been drifting aimlessly through hi... |
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GED |
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5 Minds for the Future
In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how we will e... |
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Writing for the GED from KET
TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE TRAINING GO TO: http://www.ketadultlearning.org/pd/ged2002.htm This online tra... |
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General interest |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ESOL teachers and director... |
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A Whole New Mind
A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink turns much of our current thinking abou... |
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Design Your Own PD
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all GED/ESOL teachers, directo... |
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God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ESOL teachers and director... |
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Reflective Practice in Action: 80 Reflection Breaks for Busy Teachers
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABLE directors, coordinato... |
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Teacher Man
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all teachers! The act... |
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The Glass Castle
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all GED/ESOL teachers and dire... |
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When I Was Puerto Rican/Almost a Woman
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABLE teachers. |
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Instructional strategies |
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Differentiating Instruction - Collaborative Planning and Teaching for Universally Designed Learning
Presents two approaches: universal design for learning (UDL) and a unique retrofit approach for acce... |
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Dr. Mark Milliron Podcast: Preparing for a New Generation of Learning: Key Conversations to Catalyze the Build Out
Dr. Mark Milliron presented this topic at the C/SE ABLE 2008 Fall Symposium. During this one hour po... |
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Financial Resources & Economic Education (F.R.E.E.)
The Financial Resources & Economic Education Curriculum is meant to provide general financial inform... |
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How to Improve Your Questioning Techniques: A Media Package
This media package provides participants with a videotape that explores the different types of quest... |
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Introducing Explicit Instruction
In this online, self-paced training, participants will learn what defines explicit instruction and t... |
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Introduction to Universal Design for Learning
This two module online training introduces the concept of Universal Design for Learning. Module One ... |
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Science Fair
Science Fair demonstrates the four instructional strategies current research indicates help improve ... |
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Language |
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The Story of Human Language - Part I
This alternative delivery professional development activity can be completed easily at home or on yo... |
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Math |
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Great Courses: Algebra 1 - Part 1
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose... |
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Great Courses: Algebra 1 - Part 2
This alternative dellivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpos... |
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Great Courses: Algebra 1 - Part 3
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose ... |
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Great Courses: Algebra 1 - Part 4
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose ... |
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Great Courses: Algebra 1 - Part 5
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose ... |
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Great Courses: Algebra 1 - Part 6
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose ... |
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Great Courses: Basic Math - Part 1
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose... |
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Great Courses: Basic Math - Part 2
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose... |
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Great Courses: Basic Math - Part 3
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose ... |
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Great Courses: Basic Math - Part 4
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose... |
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Great Courses: Basic Math - Part 5
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE tachers. The purpose ... |
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Great Courses: Basic Math - Part 6
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABE teachers. The purpose... |
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Hands-On Equations
This very effective media package contains one DVD along with enough materials for twenty students a... |
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Hands-On Equations
This very effective media package contains one dvd along with enough materials for twenty students a... |
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Levels 2, 3, & 4 Algebra with Khan Academy
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Explore a new supplemental instructional tool and boost your content knowledge all at once! |
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Levels 5 & 6 Geometry with Khan Academy
(New!)
Explore a new supplemental instructional tool and boost your content knowledge all at once! |
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Math Tool Kit
This hands-on training is for ABLE Math teachers. It can be done individually or w... |
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New to ABLE |
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EL/Civics Online
EL/Civics Online is a self-directed professional development opportunity for ESL in... |
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From First-Year to First-Rate
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for all ABLE directors and coordin... |
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New Staff Orientation, Northwest (Region 4)
New Staff Orientation (NSO) is an on-line training designed to provide a convenient format for new A... |
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Peer coaching |
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Breakthrough
This comprhensive multimedia presentation offers staff developers the necessary materials to help ad... |
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Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom
This comprehensive multimedia presentation offers staff developers the necessary materials to help t... |
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Leadership & Sustainability
This all-in-one training package provides staff developers with the necessary tools for training lea... |
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Peer Coaching
Peer coaching is a professional development option for ABLE Teachers and Administrators. The prerequ... |
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Reading |
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Building Academic Background Knowledge: A Media Package
This media package provides participants with a research-based approach to vocabulary building. It ... |
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Comprehending Content: A Media Package
This media package takes you inside the classroom of a high school reading teacher as she helps stru... |
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How to Teach Reading
This alternative delivery training is appropriate for all GED/ESOL teachers, teachers' aides, and ad... |
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Introducing Evidence-Based Reading Instruction
In this online, self-paced training, participants will learn what constitutes evidence-based reading... |
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Reading in the Content Areas: A Media Package
This media package provides participants with a research-based approach to reading in the content ar... |
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Teaching with Informational Text
In this online, self-paced training, participants will learn what defines informational text and how... |
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Thoughtful Reading: A Media Package
This media package takes you inside the classroom of a high school reading teacher as she helps stru... |
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Why Reading is Hard
Why Reading is Hard is "intended for teachers, professional development leaders, teacher ed... |
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Special needs |
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American Sign Language
This alternative delivery course will provide an overview of deaf culture, fingerspelling and the ba... |
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Asperger's Syndrome: Transition to College and Work
This well-made DVD provides opportunity for administrators, instructors and staff with the opportuni... |
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Best Practices in Accommodating Students with Autisim Spectrum Disorders
In this audio conference, Scott Friedman discusses best practices for students with Autism Spectrum ... |
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Beyond F.A.T. City: A Look Back, A Look Ahead
Richard Lavoie presents an update on his 1998 video How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. C... |
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Beyond F.A.T. City: A Look Back, A Look Ahead
Richard Lavoi presents an update on his 1998 video "How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Works... |
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GED Accommodations: Ensuring Success Begins With Instruction
In this 1 hour video presentation, Nancie Payne discusses the process for obtaining accommodations o... |
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How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Learning Disability Workshop
This video allows the viewer to spend 70 minutes experiencing life in the way a learning disabled st... |
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How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Learning Disability Workshop
This video allows the viewer to spend 70 minutes experiencing life in the way a learning disabled st... |
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Inside the Hidden World of Dyslexia and ADHD
This multimedia package introduces participants to individuals with dyslexia and Attention Deficit H... |
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Mozart and The Whale
Addresses Transitions for Students with Special Needs. Based on a true story, this movie follows a ... |
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Ohio Web Portal Tour & Scavenger Hunt
Participants will view a brief video tour of the Ohio Web Portal for Serving Adults with Disabilitie... |
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Ohio: Intro to Learning to Achieve
Introduction to Learning to Achieve is part of a research-based training from the National Institute... |
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Proust and the Squid (The Story & Science of the Reading Brain)
In this ambitious, provocative book, Maryanne Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading ... |
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Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is a nationally renowned author, lecturer and pioneering advocate for autism and auti... |
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The ADA Amendments Act: What the New Regulations Mean for Postsecondary Institutions
Participants will view an archived webinar covering the updated regulations under the ADA Amendments... |
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Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism - by Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is an animal scientist and author who has autism. She thinks, feels and experiences ... |
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Technology |
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Action!: Using MovieMaker to Expand Learning Opportunities
Have you been interested in creating learning modules your students can take home or view online? Th... |
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GED Essentials Online - 2006
In this alternative delivery activity, participants will receive a CD with information on the GED T... |
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Internet Resources for the ABLE Adult Learner
This training is geard toward using selected websites for instruction that correlates with the ABLE ... |
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Kindles in the Classroom: The Hunger Games
Introduce new technologies into your classroom with this exciting alternative delivery professional ... |
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Learning Language Through Technology
Technology can support teachers in making language learning faster, easier, less painful and more en... |
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Using Cameras in the Classroom
This alternative delivery professional development activity can be completed easily at home or on yo... |
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Using Web 2.0 to Enhance ABLE Instruction: A WebQuest
How can ABLE staff use the ever-expanding list of Web 2.0 tools to enhance their instruction or prog... |
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Web Conference - Northeast (Archived)
This is an informational session to introduce participants to web conferencing tools, such as Ellumi... |
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Wynn Literacy Support Software
This multimedia package will walk participants through a demonstration of Wynn Literacy Support soft... |
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Transitions |
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College Knowledge
College Knowledge by David, T. Conley, clearly shows the limitations of the current... |
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Workplace literacy |
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Teaching Basic Skills in the Workplace
This alternative delivery professional development opportunity is for ABLE directors and coordinator... |
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Writing |
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Book Club - The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
"With powerful entries from students' own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, ... |
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Conducting Research and Writing Research Papers
In this online, self-paced training, participants will learn how to guide students through the proce... |
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Creating a Community of Writers
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Developing Writers: Writing for Different Audiences
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Focus on Spelling: A Media Package
This media package provides participants with a new look at spelling instruction. Built on the prem... |
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Introducing Evidence-Based Writing Instruction
In this online, self-paced training, participants will learn what constitutes evidence-based writing... |
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Making Writing Meaningful
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Strategies For Teaching Writing
The tools in this book provides a multitude of modeling activities for the teacher and apportunities... |
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Teaching Multigenre Writing
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Teaching Persuasive Writing
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Teaching Poetry
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Teaching the Power of Revision
All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learn... |
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Teaching Writing Online: How & Why
This alternative delivery training is appropriate for all teachers, but especially for those teachin... |
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