June is a good time to reflect on the school year that is coming to a close. As I look over course evaluations and prepare reports, one thing that strikes me each year is how fortunate we are to have such excellent facilitators for our online professional development courses. Course participants have commented over and over again how much they appreciated the thoughtful feedback and gentle nudges that our facilitators provide. In the words of one course participant: “Thank you to my instructor for helping me to grow as a teacher!” I’d like to take this opportunity to thank each of them.
This year World Education E-Learning PD ran 32 facilitated online course sections with 15 dedicated facilitators. Many of our facilitators are World Education staff, and others work in adult education organizations across the country. One thing they all have in common is their commitment to helping teachers and program staff improve their practice. For full bios of all of our facilitators, visit : http://elearningpd.worlded.org/meet-the-instructors/
This year’s facilitators and the courses they taught are:
- Amy Vickers – Data: Helping Students Interpret Numeric Information
- Barbara Goodridge – Foundations of Teaching Adult Numeracy and Geometry: Teaching about Shapes and their Measures
- Chris Stanyer – Navigating Pathways to Opportunity
- Cynthia Peters – Helping Students Stay: Exploring Program and Classroom Persistence Strategies
- Diana Satin – Integrating Technology with Project-Based Learning and Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom
- Ellen Hewett – College Readiness for Adults: Beyond Academic Preparation and Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom
- Jody Angelone – Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom
- Jody Maloney – College Readiness for Adults: Beyond Academic Preparation and Addressing the Impact of Stress on Learning in the ABE/ESOL Classroom
- Pam Meader – Data: Helping Students Interpret Numeric Information and Number Sense: Teaching About Parts and Wholes
- Priyanka Sharma – College Readiness for Adults: Beyond Academic Preparation and Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom
- Rebecca Strom – Number Sense: Teaching About Parts and Wholes
- Sandy Goodman – Navigating Pathways to Opportunity
- Sherry Lehane & Melissa Braaten – Mathematizing ESOL
- Wendy Quinones – Helping Students Stay: Exploring Program and Classroom Persistence Strategies
- Wynne Ferdinand – Contextualized Instruction
I’d also like to thank Kaye Beall, who reads and responds to each and every submission for participants completing our free self-paced courses.
Read on for more comments from participants about their facilitators:
“Thank you for all your patience and guidance–you are an insightful course leader, especially dealing with both participants who are in career readiness programs and those of us who are trainers, and who may have other roles.”
“As our course instructor, you have guided us through the course with awareness and knowledge. Your comments and suggestions were prompt and encouraging which allows us to view other perspectives in variety topics, readings, and postings.”
“I’d like to thank our instructor for her insightful and prompt responses to our questions.”
“I appreciate the one-on-one contact and encouragement from my facilitator.”
“I would like to thank my instructor for the wonderful information in this class. I hope to have her again as an instructor for other classes.”
I’m looking forward to another year of online professional development courses and hope that you’ll join us too.
