2011+Adult+Level+Workshop

CATESOL Adult Level Workshop: Integrating Workplace Skills in ESL Classes

Presenters: Ronna Magy: Los Angeles Unified School District

Donna Price: San Diego Community College Continuing Education Program

Recent federal policy underscores the need for developing a stronger workforce to build a stronger economy: a system which insures workers have the education, skills training, and supports needed to compete in the 21st Century. The need to combine adult literacy and job training and create seamless pathways between adult ESL classes and workforce skills development is pressing.

In this workshop, participants will:


 * Find out what employers say are essential skills for today's workforce
 * Discover ways to integrate transferable work skills in general ESL classes
 * Learn fun, new collaborative activities that will help ESL students be more valued employees
 * Learn to use a problem-solving model that can be used with even beginning level ESL classes.