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TEACHING ESSENTIALS OVERVIEW
Teaching Essentials™ is a series of three college-level interactive online courses for adult education instructors. Easy-to-read charts in the learning dashboard show each teacher their progress, participation time, and lesson mastery. Administrators can assign specific courses and track progress in the built-in Learning Management System (applies to school purchases only). Upon completing each course, teachers are awarded a Certificate of Achievement. The three courses include:
- Identifying and Remediating Reading Skills Difficulties
- Motivating the Adult Learner
- Blended Learning in Adult Education
IDENTIFYING & REMEDIATING READING SKILL DIFFICULTIES
The Identifying & Remediating Reading Skill Difficulties course contains five interactive lessons that teach instructors how to identify each student's precise reading difficulty, design the best strategy, and implement remedial instruction targeted to their individual needs.
- Phonemic Awareness Lesson: Provides instructors with tools to help non-readers and beginning readers on the path to reading.
- Vocabulary Lesson: Designed to help teachers increase the vocabulary of fluent readers to increase reading comprehension.
- Comprehension Lesson: Demonstrates the importance of using effective strategies for assessing comprehension and provides tips to improve reading comprehension.
MOTIVATING THE ADULT LEARNER
The Motivating the Adult Learner course includes six interactive lessons. It starts with basic theories of motivation and then applies these concepts to the unique challenges adult education teachers face. Instructors quickly explore hands-on strategies and techniques that will engage and motivate even the most reluctant learner.
- Student-Related Factors Lesson: Explores how students can stand in the way of their own motivation and ways instructors can help students increase their motivation.
- Instructor-Related Factors Lesson: A two-part lesson that examines how well-intentioned instructional decisions can have a negative effect on student motivation.
- Incorporating Technology Lesson: Briefly reviews the barriers to motivation and demonstrates how teachers and students can use technology to reduce the impact of those barriers.
BLENDED LEARNING IN ADULT EDUCATION
The Blended Learning in Adult Education course includes six interactive lessons. It starts with the basics of educational technology concepts, and then gives the instructor the tools and skills to blend the best educational technology with their direct instruction. Instructors teach better, students learn faster and retain more, and everyone has more fun doing it.
- What is Blended Learning? Lesson: Teaches how blended learning can help classrooms achieve the right balance of computer-based and face-to-face instruction.
- Assessment Tools Lesson: Explores digital assessment tools and how to use the data to motivate students and inform instruction.
- Teaching Problem Solving Lesson: Teaches how to turn technical issues into teachable moments and model problem-solving skills.
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$15
per course seat
Teacher Purchase
$29
per course
Teacher Purchase
$59
all three courses
Minimum purchase of 3 seats required for School Purchases. Each seat can be used once, is not reusable, and will never expire.
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The series includes all three Teaching Essentials courses:
- Identifying and Remediating Reading Skill Difficulties
- Motivating the Adult Learner
- Blended Learning in Adult Education
$15/course seat
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