LINCS Community Events for the Weeks of 6/13/2022 and 6/20/2022

Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 6/13/2022:

Live Session: Welcome Home Dad/Mom! Now What?

Description: Join our conversation with Mike Johnson on engaging justice impacted individuals and their families around adult literacy and career pathways in celebration of Father’s Day. We will explore how to engage families in learning and gain a better understanding of the challenges adult learners have as they travel through our justice systems. Promising practices in correctional facilities and upon release, resources, and tools to help learners of all ages be successful will be shared.

Date/Time: Thursday, June 16, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: Correctional and Reentry Education

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Welcome Home Dad/Mom! Now What?

 

Live Session: Interactive Presentations with Mentimeter and Slido

Description: How do you get immediate feedback from your participants? Does everyone have a chance for their voice to be heard? In the age of remote and hybrid learning it is increasingly important for lessons to not only be inclusive of all students but to also be engaging and interactive. Join Ryan Lett and the LINCS Community Integrating Technology group to discover how to make presentations and lessons more interactive using Mentimeter and Slido, including with a walkthrough of both platforms, a review of features, and ideas for use in the hybrid classroom.

Date/Time: Friday, June 17, 2022, 1:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: Integrating Technology

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Interactive Presentations with Mentimeter and Slido

 

Live Session: Developing a Program for Online Teaching Excellence

Description: Join Erica Duran and Kristi Reyes of Mira Costa College to learn about an effective model for training online adult basic education instructors to build technology literacy across programs. A description of the training model along with practical tips and lessons learned from multiple cohorts who completed the training will be shared.

Date/Time: Friday, June 17, 2022, 4:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: English Language Acquisition; Teaching and Learning; Professional Development; Integrating Technology

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Developing a Program for Online Teaching Excellence

 

Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 6/20/2022:

Live Session: Shifting the Lens around Nutrition Topics in the ESL Classroom

Description: ESL lessons sometimes present a privileged and culturally one-sided perspective of nutrition. Join us to examine food and nutrition themes typically taught in adult ESL programs and ideas around problematizing resources and adapting them to be more culturally inclusive when discussing the topic of healthy living.

Date/Time: Thursday, June 23, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: English Language Acquisition; Science

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Shifting the Lens around Nutrition Topics in the ESL Classroom

 

 

*Please note: LINCS moderator-led events are not recorded, so we encourage you to participate in them as they happen. Certificates are not provided for attending LINCS events.