Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 2/7/2022:
Live Session: Coffee Break: Integrating Workforce Skills into Lessons
Description: Are you curious about how to start integrating workforce skills into lesson and program planning? Join us for a coffee break to chat with your colleagues about strategies to get started!
Date/Time: Monday, February 7, 2022, 12:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Teaching and Learning
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Coffee Break: Integrating Workforce Skills into Lessons.
Hosted Discussion: Teaching Academic Vocabulary Here, There and Everywhere
Description: Increasing vocabulary knowledge is essential. Join this discussion to gain practical instructional strategies for teaching academic vocabulary to intermediate and advanced English learners as well as ABE and HSE students.
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 8, 2022
LINCS Community Group: English Language Acquisition
A LINCS account is required to participate in the LINCS discussion Teaching Academic Vocabulary Here, There and Everywhere.
Hosted Discussion: Creating a Diverse Workforce Through Apprenticeship
Description: Do you enjoy podcasts? For Low Vision Awareness Month, we invite you to listen to the Partnership for Inclusive Apprenticeship podcast interview with Sassy Outwater-Wright, executive director of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Then, join us in the Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes group to discuss how adult educators are working to help expand access for persons with vision impairments to work-based learning and apprenticeship opportunities.
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 9, 2022
LINCS Community Group: Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes
A LINCS account is required to participate in the LINCS discussion Creating a Diverse Workforce Through Apprenticeship.
Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 2/14/2022:
Live Session: Lesson Planning for Writing
Description: Research shows that teaching adult education students writing strategies is the most effective writing technique. Join Cindy Heimbach, Instructional Development Specialist for Mississippi Adult Education, and the Reading and Writing group for a demonstration of effective lesson planning techniques for writing strategy instruction.
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Reading and Writing
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Lesson Planning for Writing.
Live Session: Trauma Informed Instruction in the Science Classroom
Description: Join us for a coffee break to better understand how the pandemic could potentially traumatize students who suddenly find themselves deprived of social interactions with classmates/friends and a safe place to go besides the confines of their own homes. We will discuss how trauma could hinder student ability to learn in the science classroom and reflect on the best approaches and strategies educators can adapt to support students during this crisis.
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 3:30pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Science
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Trauma Informed Instruction in the Science Classroom.
Live Session: Integrated Education & Training Behind and Beyond our Prison Walls
Description: In celebration of Career & Technical Education Month, the Professional Development and Correctional & Reentry Education groups will come together to explore Integrated Education & Training (IET) Programs behind and beyond the prison walls. Best practices will be shared and discussed for the use of IET programs for justice involved individuals. This interactive event will highlight the importance of career and technical training in the correctional and reentry setting and how educators can work to develop and implement this instructional model.
Date/Time: Friday, February 18, 2022, 1:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Professional Development & Correctional and Reentry Education
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Integrated Education & Training Behind and Beyond our Prison Walls.
*Please note: LINCS moderator-led events are not recorded, so we encourage you to participate in them as they happen.