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Connecting the Dots: Classroom Activities for
College and Career Readiness
Donna Price
[email protected] Diego Community College Continuing Education
Skills and knowledge
required for success in
college, technical
training programs and
employment
2013
Language and skills
necessary to
succeed in the
workplace
2014
Ventures 3rd edition
2018
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By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Provide basic information on the College and Career
Readiness Standards (CCRS) and the Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and how
they relate to instruction in ESL classes
• Identify practical strategies from Ventures to address
the CCRS and WIOA in instruction
Objectives
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• Brief background Information, CCRS, WIOA and Instruction
• Demonstration of activities from Ventures that
implement the CCRS and WIOA
• Reflection and commitment to implement
workshop activities in the classroom
Agenda
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• Listening
• Oral Communication
• Reading
• Vocabulary
• Writing, Note Taking
• Research, analyze, explain
information & cite
sources
• Critical Thinking,
Problem Solving
• Interpersonal Soft Skills
• Technology
Workforce
& Career
Readiness
Skills
Academic
Readiness
Skills
Skills Students Need for Success
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5
Research
parts/inventory
Find information
Cite resources
Analyze problems
Repair parts
Explain work
orders
Summarize &
Explain information
What skills does an auto mechanics use
on the job?
How are these skills the same for college students?
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The CCR Standards (College and Career Readiness
Standards) were developed by OCTAE to help
prepare adult students for college and career
readiness.
OCTAE=Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education
p. 2 in handout
Who developed the CCR Standards?
Where did the CCR Standards come from?
The CCR Standards have four major strands:
reading, writing, speaking and listening, and
language.
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Purpose of WIOA Title II…….WIOA expands the purpose of AEFLA [Adult Education and Family Literacy Act] to assist immigrants and other individuals who are English language learners to improve their reading, writing, and comprehension skills in English and mathematics as well as understanding the American system of Government, individual freedom, and the responsibilities of citizenship.
Johan Uvin, 2016Former Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education
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Onramps and Pathways under WIOA Title II
1. Onramp: Help ELLs achieve competence in English language reading, writing, speaking and comprehension [by using the CCRS]
2. Pathway: Program of Instruction must lead to attainment of secondary diploma or equivalent
3. Pathway: Program of Instruction must lead to transition to postsecondary education and job training, or employment
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1. Listening
2. Speaking
3. Reading
4. Writing
5. Research
6. Knowledge of American culture
(informational text)
Demonstration of activities in Ventures that implement
the CCRS and WIOA
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• Use a variety of strategies to enhance
listening comprehension.
• Interpret a speaker’s message.
• Engage actively and effectively in group
discussions.
• Listen activity and effectively in one-on-
one communication situations.
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Assist immigrants and English language
learners:
Improve reading, writing, math,
speaking and comprehending the English
language
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What is this? What does it do?
Students scan to
listen to audio.
Ventures Student Book 1,
p. 97
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Listening:
In grammar lessons…
Ventures Student Book 1,
p. 98
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In grammar lessons…
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Ventures Student Book 4, p. 64
Listening in
Reading
Lessons
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• All Ventures Students Books Lesson A focus
on listening skills
• Two pages in the workbook (every unit
Lesson A)
• Collaborative activities online: Find the
Differences, Matching
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Listening: Find the Differences
Ventures 2, Unit 1
Online
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• Participate actively in both group and one-
on-one oral communication situations.
• Adjust presentation to particular audiences
and purposes.
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• All lessons in the Ventures Students Books include
communicating with a partner or small group
• All lessons include a collaborative activity online including
Conversation Cards, Student Interviews, etc.
• CCR worksheets at the end of the book provide more speaking
practice
• Practice using academic language in the CCR worksheets
• Practice using functional (useful) phrases
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Speaking: Student Interview
Ventures 2, Unit 1
Online
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Speaking: Conversation Cards Mixer
Ventures 2,
Unit 1,
Online
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• Use effective reading strategies to determine purpose.
• Use text features and graphics.
• Ask text dependent questions.
• Identify and analyze similarities and differences in
multiple texts.
• Use informational texts.
• Draw and support inferences from text to summarize and
draw conclusions.
• Understand new vocabulary and concepts and use them
accurately in reading, speaking and writing.
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NRS: Identify key words ad points in a written text.
Ventures Student Book 1,
p. 102
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Ventures Student Book 4, p. 64
Pre-reading
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Ventures Student Book 4, p. 64
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CCRS Reading: Identify explicit and implicit
textual information including main ideas
and author’s purpose
Ventures Student Book 4, p. 65
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CCRS Reading: Understand new vocabulary
and concepts and use them accurately in
reading, speaking and writing
Ventures Student
Book 4, p. 65
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CCRS Reading: Understand new vocabulary
and concepts and use them accurately in
reading, speaking and writing
Ventures Student
Book 4, p. 65
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CCRS Reading: Understand new vocabulary
and concepts and use them accurately in
reading, speaking and writing
Ventures Student
Book 4, p. 65
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• Two pages in the workbook (every unit
Lesson D)
• Collaborative activities online (Lesson D)
including Jigsaw and Scramble activities and
Multi-level worksheets
• College and Career Readiness worksheets in
the back of book
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Reading: Multi-level Worksheets
Ventures 4, Multi-level worksheets,
Online
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Reading: Unscramble
Ventures 3, Online
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Ventures Student Book 3,
pgs. 157-159
College and Career Readiness Worksheets
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• Use the writing process: plan,
revise, edit, rewrite
• Use a variety of genres (narrative,
informative, etc.)
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Ventures 1, p. 119
Lesson E:Writingpage 52
Prewriting activities
Lesson E:Writingpage 53
Process
writing:
3 steps
1. Pre-writing
2. Writing
3. Peer Review
Ventures Book 1
Student 2nd edition
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Ventures 1, p. 119 Ventures Student Book 4,
p. 52
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• Two pages in the workbook (every unit
Lesson E)
• Collaborative activities online (Lesson E)
including Partner Dictation and Share
Information (information gap)
• College and Career Readiness worksheets in
the back of book
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Writing: Partner Dictation
Ventures, Book 2, Unit 1
Online collaborative
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Each unit offers
projects where
students practice
using the
Internet to
conduct
research.
Ventures
Projects
using the
Internet
Ventures Book 1
Unit 8 online
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Project using
interviews/surveys
Online
Ventures 1, Unit 9
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Assist immigrants and English language
learners:
Acquire understanding of American
government, individual freedom, and
responsibilities of citizenship
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• Citizenship on the Arcade and online
worksheets
• Civics lessons online
• Informational texts in Ventures Student
Book Lesson D
• CCR worksheets at the end of the book
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FREE – Student Support Site Ventures Arcadewww.cambridge.org/venturesarcade
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Ventures Civic Worksheets
Online
www.cambridge.org/ventures
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Ventures Civic
Worksheets Online
www.cambridge.org/
ventures
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p. 7 in
handout
Ventures Civics
Worksheets
Online
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• Each Student’s Book features units specifically about
work and school.
• Problem solving and critical thinking skills in every unit
develop valuable workforce skills.
• Pair and group work in every lesson develop soft skills such
as communication and collaboration.
• Digital literacy is promoted through Internet research tasks,
Ventures Arcade & the online workbook.
• Career Pathways worksheets cover key topics like searching
for jobs, writing a resume or doing a presentation, so that
students at ALL levels have an opportunity to build toward a job
after exiting your program.
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Can you...
• provide basic information on the College and Career
Readiness Standards (CCRS) and Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and how
they relate to instruction in ESL classes?
• identify practical strategies from Ventures to address
the CCRS and WIOA in instruction?
Reflections on the Objectives of this Workshop
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My Commitment
I will implement the following two things
I learned in this workshop in the next
month.
1. __________________________________
2. __________________________________
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Donna’s PowerPoint presentation and handout for this workshop can be
found at http://www.quia.com/pages/donna/workshops
Donna Price