ACES: Academic, Career & Employability Skills
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LENKA BRAGGPATRICIA SHAPIRO -SOYDANSER
HEATHER TURNGREN
ACES: Academic, Career & Employability Skills
ACES - Overview
ATLAS (ABE Teaching & Learning Advancement System) project to advance transitions instruction for all ABE learners in Minnesota
Transitions = transitioning learners to post-secondary or employment
National and State initiatives
ACES cohort included 3 base groups of 24 teachers
ACES – Professional Development
Integration of ACES framework into existing curriculum from January - May
Readings in transition areas and researchVideo observations and tasksMoodle instructional modulesOnline discussions with base groups and
facilitatorsLesson planning 2 peer observationsFinal group presentations
ACES Transitions Integration Framework
Career Literacy / AwarenessCritical ThinkingEffective CommunicationLanguage and Learning StrategiesNavigating and Understanding One’s EnvironmentNumeracySelf-ManagementTechnology
ACES Framework: Focused, Intentional Tool for Lesson Planning.
Questions I ask myself when I plan my lessons:
How can I address the eight areas of the framework?
What activities will help my students in their jobs or their academic futures?
Career Literacy/ Awareness
Conduct mock job interviews
Research jobs with MnCareers Books (www.iseek.com)
Integrate grammar into filling out job accident report forms
Critical Thinking
Incorporate higher order questions
Compare, contrast and evaluate prices based on information from flyers
Compare money matters in the U.S. and your country
Scavenger Hunt to predict the topic of the lesson
Evaluate different community resources and decide which is most useful
Effective Communication
Use sentence strips to match symptoms and illnesses
Games Role play symptoms, guess illness Partners A/B exchange information Partners share one worksheet Jigsaw reading Practice taking on various team roles
(scribe, time keeper, speaker, etc.)
Language and Learning Strategies
Use graphic organizers (Venn Diagram, grid, schedule, T-chart)
Read for specific purpose
Scan community resources
Navigating and Understanding One’s Environment
Discuss the importance of job accident report forms
Fill out a checking account application, checks, withdrawal forms
Discuss advantages and disadvantages of using credit cards vs. cash
Indentify a personal need, contact a community resource
Numeracy
Compare unit prices
Fill out a withdrawal form
Calculate age
Calculate how many times you can get a prescription refill
Self-Management
Organize class materials in 3-ring binders per established order
Use a calendar to track attendance and important dates
Track CASAS test scores using graphs
Set specific learning goals
Technology
Scan documents and project them in class
Use technology to locate information and communicate
Endless opportunities
Patricia’s ACES Work
Participants’ Feedback
ACES helped with: lesson planning focused on frameworklessons being more intentionallessons that were more focuseda focus on how to teach, not what to teachtransforming teaching making students become more self-sufficient
and self motivatedengaging students
Participants’ Feedback
ACES is …holistic and purposefula ‘mindset’ change not a curriculumtailored to all levelsa way to make your teaching more intentional
and deliberatea toolbox for teaching
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Future of ACES
ACES Integration Framework will be adjusted with recommendations of ACES Participants and ACES Advisory Group
ACES Participants will present in their programs/sites
Plan is for state-wide use by all ABE teachers in Minnesota in future
Other states are interested in the ACES Framework