Save Your License Workshop

Friday, March 14, 2008
8:30 am –2:45 pm
Country Inn and Suites
1900 Premiere Dr
Mankato, MN 56001

The Southeast and Southwest Regional ABE Professional Development Coordinators of the Minnesota Department of Education along with the ATLAS program at Hamline University offer this workshop opportunity to meet teacher re-licensure requirements.  CEU’s indicating attendance will be provided.

8:30-9:00   Registration and Continental Breakfast (provided)

9:00-10:30   What Does Mental Illness Look Like? Symptoms and Strategies
Shelley White, National Alliance of Mental Health
(This session addresses the relicensure area of key warning signs of early onset mental illness.)

After this session, participants will be able to identity the major symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.  Participants will learn basic strategies for dealing with persons with mental illness in an adult classroom setting, including what language and words may be avoided to keep from escalating a difficult situation. 

10:30-10:45   Break

10:45-12:15   Keeping Adult Learners at the Center
Kim Johnson, Atlas/Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning: Hamline University
(This session addresses the relicensure area of adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of varied students.)

Being a learner-centered teacher means turning the spotlight onto the learning process; it means shifting the focus from what the teacher is doing to what the students are doing.  What does this mean in actual practice?  In this interactive session, we will examine principles of learner-centered teaching, critically examine our own practices, and identify ways to keep learners at the center.

12:15-1:00   Lunch (provided)

1:00-2:30   Decision-making in the Culturally-Diverse Adult Classroom
Kim Johnson, Atlas/Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning: Hamline University
(This session addresses the relicensure area of positive behavioral interventions.)  

Teaching is more than activities and lesson plans; above all it is the meeting of one human with another.  This fundamental reality involves constant and sometimes difficult decision-making, especially in the often culturally diverse adult basic education classroom.  In this workshop, we’ll begin an exploration of the morality of teaching in our own contexts.  Together, we’ll explore values and beliefs, identify moral dilemmas from our own teaching experiences, and consider ways to understand and solve professional moral dilemmas to better meet the needs of our varied student population.

 

Registrations must be received by Tuesday, March 4, 2008.

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