For New Adult Educators

If you’re a new adult educator,
there’s a new professional development opportunity
created especially for you.

If you have questions about requirements or topics of the New Teacher Institute, please contact Connie Spencer-Ackerman at (606) 783-9377 or c.spencerack@moreheadstate.edu .

The New Teacher Institute has been designed specifically for those new to the field of adult education.  Offered through the Adult Education Academy for Professional Development at Morehead State University, the Institute will allow new adult educators to:  

• Be exposed to principles of adult learning.
• Observe modeling of and practice proven instructional strategies.
• Reflect on how strategies can be applied in their classrooms.
• Experience a cooperative learning exercise.
• Learn to plan for differentiated instruction.
• Explore noncommercial instructional materials. 

Because the newly developed institute will be field-tested with a limited number of instructors, participants will be selected through an application process.  Applicants must complete an application and return it by the extended deadline of November 16.  Priority will be given to those who have:

• Been hired within 10 months prior to the institute,
• Completed Orientation to Reading and Writing Instruction (2006-2007)or Foundations of Reading and Writing Instruction (2007),
• Completed Orientation to Math Instruction (2006-2007)or Foundations of Math Instruction (2007),
• Completed Introduction to the TABE (2006-2007) or Introduction to TABE and Diagnostic Tools (2007). 

In addition, participants must plan to come with a partner from the same program, who may be new or experienced, so that the two participants are able to reinforce each other’s practice.  Program directors must agree to support teachers as they return to the program ready to implement strategies they learn through the institute.

The institute will be held on January 17 and 18 in Elizabethtown with a follow-up session scheduled for April 24 and 25.  Lodging and meals will be provided or reimbursed by the Adult Education Academy.

Instructors are Duane Lambert, adjunct professor and interim coordinator of Morehead State University’s Master of Arts in Teaching Program, a former Kentucky Highly Skilled Educator, and experienced instructional coach; and Dr. Barbara Nielsen, adjunct professor at Bellarmine University, a former adult literacy supervisor, curriculum and instruction director, and experienced trainer of both adult educators and K-12 educators.