Parkland to be Central/Southern Host

Thanks to Parkland College for their hospitality in agreeing to host the Institute to Credential Special Learning Needs Resource Specialists training in the central/southern regions! The dates at Parkland are: 

Friday, October 28, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
Friday, April 14, 2017

Please contact Sarah Goldammer at sgoldam@siue.edu for more information or to request an application. 

Olive Harvey to Host 16-17 SLN Northern Training

Thanks to Olive Harvey College for their hospitality in agreeing to host the Institute to Credential Special Learning Needs Resource Specialists training in the north! The dates at Olive Harvey are: 

Friday, October 21, 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
Friday, March 31, 2017

Please contact Sarah Goldammer at sgoldam@siue.edu for more information or to request an application. Dates and location for the Central/Southern group coming soon!

Bravo Dwayne Reed! 

Chicago teacher pens rap song to inspirestudents...http://abc7.ws/2bN1mdR

Who wouldn't want to be a student in his class?!!

I hope this inspires you to reach your students where they are and find the joy of learning for both of you!

Have a great year!

Institute to Credential Special Learning Needs Resource Specialists

Are you interested in learning strategies to help your students learn? Do you know someone who is interested? We're getting ready to form a new learning group for The Institute to Credential Special Learning Needs Resource Specialists (SLN). 

This is an intensive training designed to enhance program capacity to meet the needs of adults with special learning needs through the development of local resource specialists.  Participants will be trained to serve as resources for instructional staff in their programs and provide screening for SLN, observe the manifestations of special learning needs, and develop appropriate instructional strategies for use by instructors within their programs.

Locations and dates to be determined by interest from the field

For more information or to host this training at your site, contact Sarah Goldammer at sgoldam@siue.edu

Check out these fabulous free training opportunities!

New online training: Teaching Research Skills to ESL and ABE/ASE Students

There are new training modules with resources to teach ESL and ABE/ASE students available. Email sipdctrainer@gmail.com for access to these new opportunities.

Also new are technology resources for adult ed on the SIPDC YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1V3VjlWEdvPeGijNTVtFg

Thanks to Tara Schwab and Heather Martin of Waubonsse Community College for creating these new training opportunities! Tara and Heather are fabulous teachers and Special Learning Needs Resource Specialists doing their part to improve this world!

SignAloud: Gloves that Transliterate Sign Language into Text and Speech

Check this out!

Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi of the University of Washington are the $10,000 Lemelson-MIT “Use it!” Undergraduate Winners for their invention SignAloud, gloves that transliterate sign language into text and speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01sdzJHCCM

Fresh Ideas from the Field

Thanks to Kathy Young for sharing the following:

At McHenry County College we had a speaker who had earned her GED^® and has since gone through college and earned multiple certificates. The speaker, Susana, explained to the students that time management skills will help them reach their goal of passing the GED. Susana said that she used to think that she would never have the time to study at home since she had a family and a job. When she started keeping track of how she used her time, she realized that she DID have time to study.

Each student was given a small spiral notebook. They were told that they needed to write down what they do for three entire days. They need to keep track of how long they spend doing certain activities. After they have recorded this information, they will bring the spiral to school and we will look at it to see what they could do to find the time to study. After they figure out how to budget their activities to find the time to study, we will have them create a schedule for the week. This schedule will include the exact time each day that they can use for studying. The students all have assignment books from the college so they will use these books to keep track of the dates and time frame for school work. We will also work with them to help them set a goal that says they will follow this schedule for two weeks. After that we will meet and see how the plan worked and revise as needed. Susana also volunteered to come back in a month to provide support and encouragement to the students as they work to develop their time management skills.