Reading for Adult Educators

Training Description

This interactive workshop will orient adult educators to current research on best practices from the fields of literacy and adult education associated with teaching adult readers who are working at the intermediate level.  The workshop will systematically develop participants’ understanding of learners’ complex needs and appropriate instructional practices to meet these needs.

This training opportunity will strengthen participants’ ability to:
• Use scientifically based reading research to inform reading instructional strategies and practices for adult learners at the mid-level range of ability.
• Explore a menu of learning activities to enhance fluency, vocabulary and comprehension and the alphabetic principles.
• Learn a screening technique to:
• Identify adult learners with significant reading difficulties.
• Provide appropriate differentiated instructional strategies and learner support accommodations.

• • The Reading for Adult Educators workshop will be interactive, providing participants the opportunities to share successful strategies and learn from each other’s challenges.  The workshop will follow the Read With Understanding Standard’s steps:
    • Determine the reading purpose.
    • Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose.
    • Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies.
    • Analyze the information and reflect on its underlying meaning.
    • Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose.

  • This workshop took place in October 2007. Currently there are no more of these workshops scheduled.