Location: UBC Learning Exchange (612 Main St at Keefer)
This conference was an exciting opportunity for volunteer tutors and facilitators, as well as educators, working in the Downtown Eastside community to connect with one another. Small group discussions allowed participants to share and hear different experiences and ideas about how to support adult learning in the Downtown Eastside.
Click here for the conference program.
Sponsors:
The Downtown Eastside Volunteer Tutor/Facilitator Conference was sponsored by the DTES Adult
Literacy Roundtable, and was made possible through generous support from
the Rotary Club of Vancouver Arbutus.
"Supporting Learners & Learning Differences": DTES Professional Development Workshop Series 2012':
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Workshop participants at the
Downtown Eastside Education Centre. (May 2012)
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This workshop series aimed to provide educators and volunteer tutors working in the Downtown Eastside community with an opportunity for professional development around supporting learners and learning differences. Each workshop in the series was presented by practitioners who hold a wealth of experience and knowledge in working with a diversity of learners and learning differences.
Below is a list of the workshops that were part of the series:
"Understanding Challenges for Adult English Language Learners" &
"Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder--an Invisible Disability"
Date: Friday, February 17, 2012 Location: Union Gospel Mission (601 E. Hastings St.)
Workshop description and presenters' biographies
"Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Learning Disabilities: Difficulties, Differences, and the Feel Good Factor" &
"Ideas into Action: Multisensory Structured Language Teaching"
Date: Friday, April 13, 2012 Location: Carnegie Learning Centre, Carnegie Community Centre (401 Main St.)
Workshop description and presenters' biographies
"A balanced approach to reading, multimodal learning and universal design: Exploring new research and new practices for supporting diverse learners in adult literacy settings." &
"Beyond the Illusion of Inclusion: Working with learners with ADD/ADHD and learning difference/disabilities & helping all students in diverse classrooms find success."
Date: Friday, May 11th, 2012
Location: Downtown Eastside Education Centre (101 Powell St.)
The "DTES Supporting Learners & Learning Differences": DTES Professional Development Workshop Series 2012 was sponsored by the DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable and made possible through generous support from the Rotary Club of Vancouver Arbutus.
