MA adult education programs are required to provide students with career exploration skills while simultaneously building academic skills though they are often unsure how to go about it. Providing standards-based career contextualized instruction is a win-win for teachers, advisors, and students as it maximizes the instructional time students have in classroom.
This two-part offering provides teaching and advising teams with practical tools and strategies they can use to incorporate academic standards into career-focused teaching, advising workshops, and lesson plans.
Please Note: Teachers and advisors from the same program are encouraged to sign up as a team. Reach out to your colleague and sign up together.
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Teacher and advisor teams interested in deepening their ability to integrate standards and contextualized instruction with career exploration content
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
Join this series to learn about how to access career content and develop contextualized activities using academic standards.
With these new skills, advising and teaching teams will learn how to provide students with essential career information along with teaching them critical academic skills. As a result, learners will strive for higher educational, professional, and personal goals to improve their lives.
Session 1: In Session 1, the facilitators will share key sources of career content, including labor market information and occupational profiles. You will try out a sample contextualized activity, and then dive into the work of academic standards integration. You will leave with a template and guidance for creating your own activity.
Between session work: You will develop a learning activity of your choosing that incorporates the materials and skills explored in Session 1. You will use the provided template to identify career content, relevant standards, transferable skills, and opportunities for collaboration between advisors and teachers.
Session 2: In Session 2, you will share your process of developing the activity, the experience facilitating it (if you have), and what challenges and successes came up along the way. You will receive feedback and support from the facilitator and peers on the content, standards integration, and teacher/advisor collaboration.
Course Format: This is an online blended Canvas course with two synchronous session meetings and some in-between session work on Canvas.
Course Requirements: You must attend both sessions and complete in between session work. The total time for this course is estimated at six to seven hours.
- Part 1: Virtual workshop on Zoom (2/5/25, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
- Part 2: Independent work on Canvas (2/5/25 to 2/26/25)
- Part 3: Virtual workshop on Zoom (2/26/25, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
Extending Your Learning: After the course, you will have access to this course in Canvas until 3/3/25.
Course Access & Support: To ensure that you receive information about your training, please save jane_brandt@worlded.org to your email address book.
If you need technical assistance or have questions about accessing the course, please contact Jane Brandt at jane_brandt@worlded.org. If you have questions about the requirements, format, or content of the course, please contact facilitator Dani Scherer at dani_scherer@worlded.org.
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- Access and use relevant sources for up-to-date career exploration content
- Integrate College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education alongside career awareness and career exploration content
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Develop career-contextualized activities that are authentic, relevant, and academically rigorous
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
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