Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 10/18/2021:
Live Session: Enhance Learner Engagement with Dynamic TSTM Civics Education Lesson Plans
Description: Join us to dig into the civics education content of the Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM) toolkit. TSTM participants, Lynne Jenne and Terri Greene, will outline how they implement the TSTM civics lessons and discuss the positive impact on learner engagement.
Date/Time: Monday, October 18, 2021, 3:00 to 4:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: English Language Acquisition
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Enhance Learner Engagement with Dynamic TSTM Civics Education Lesson Plans.
Live Session: Disability Awareness Behind & Beyond the Prison Walls
Description: Learning disabilities touch many people in our society, and men and women in our correctional and reentry settings are among those most impacted. Join us to explore best practices in working with individuals touched by our justice systems who struggle with a diagnosed learning disability, and those who often go undiagnosed. We'll discuss how we can help those with learning disabilities behind and beyond our prison walls.
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 4:00 to 5:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Correctional and Reentry Education
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Disability Awareness Behind & Beyond the Prison Walls.
Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 10/25/2021:
Live Session: Coffee Break: Developing a Mathematical Identity
Description: Join us to learn how to help learners develop their mathematical identity and see themselves as math producers.
Date/Time: Monday, October 25, 2021, 12:00 to 1:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Math and Numeracy
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Coffee Break: Developing a Mathematical Identity.
Live Session: Help Adult Literacy Students Increase Their Writing Fluency
Description: Writing is challenging for all adult basic education students, especially for beginning writers. Join Dr. Mary Ann Corley as we consider effective strategies for emerging ABE and ESOL writers and how to help students who are afraid to write. Come away from this live event with evidence-based techniques and strategies that will help your students succeed!
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 2:00 to 3:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Reading and Writing
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Help Adult Literacy Students Increase Their Writing Fluency.
Hosted Discussion: What is Vocational Evaluation (VE) and How does it Benefit Adult Learners?
Description: Vocational Evaluation (VE) is used in healthcare and vocational rehabilitation to support persons beginning work, or returning to the workplace, to explore career interests, aptitudes, and the need for work-based accommodations. Join us to learn about the three different levels of VE and how they can be used by adult education programs to support learners with disabilities across adult education settings.
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 27 to Thursday, October 28, 2021 (asynchronous discussion)
LINCS Community Group: Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes
A LINCS account is required to participate in the LINCS discussion, What is Vocational Evaluation (VE) and How does it Benefit Adult Learners?
Live Session: Writing Strategies in the Science Classroom
Description: Engaging in real science requires real writing instruction. Writing within the discipline increases subject understanding, serves as a formative assessment tool, and connects content to the real world. Join us to explore writing strategies that support critical thinking in the science classroom.
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 3:00 to 4:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Science
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Writing Strategies in the Science Classroom.