Professional Development Resources

PD Sign-in Sheet
This sign-in sheet may be used at WVABE training sessions to assure that participants receive professional development credit.

Session Evaluation
This evaluation form may be used at WVABE training sessions to evaluate the quality of the presentation.

Pre-service Observation Job Shadowing Form
This is the form that new instructors need to take with them when observing a class as part of pre-service training. There is a different form for current instructors who need elective credit.

Certification Renewal Chart
This chart is a graphic that shows the certification renewal process for the Adult License, the WV Teaching Certificate, and the Substitute Permit.

Professional Development Requirements Chart
This chart is a graphic that shows the annual core and elective in-service requirements for full-time, part-time, temporary/short-term, etc. personnel.

WVABE Individual Professional Development Plan
This form is to be used to document your professional development plan when selecting the core and elective professional development sessions that you need to take in order to meet your annual PD requirements.

Conference Transcript Information
This is to be completed by personnel who are requesting elective credit and who attended multiple sessions at a conference. This form may be attached to the Request for WVABE PD Credit.

WVABE Class Visit Record
This form may be filed by current teachers who would like to obtain elective professional development credit for visiting another WVABE class. There is a different form for new instructors to use at pre-service.

Request for WVABE PD Credit
This form may be used to request professional development credit for TECH core, LIT-ALT core, or for alternative elective credit.

Recruitment/Outreach and Retention Resources

Retention Resources and Materials

GRASP (Guide for Retention and Student Persistence)

• I show up every day of class and have only a handful of students.
• The same students don't come back from one class to the next.
• Some of my students will never get the GED.
• I constantly have to stop what I'm doing to register new students.
• I don't have time to plan for my class.
• I advertise for my class, but still nobody comes.
• I have to be a teacher, counselor, coach, and bodyguard for my students??!!

If you are able to check four or more of these statements, you are definitely a candidate for GRASP. You could benefit from attending the workshop to learn and share with others. You may be suffering from burnout and need some ideas to motivate yourself and your students. If you checked 1-3 items, you have become comfortable with your program and have obviously incorporated some innovative ideas into it. This workshop will help you enhance and refine your program and refine your program and increase your effectiveness.

Professional development workshops will be available soon that will guide participants through step-by-step instructions on how to develop and implement a recruitment/outreach plan for use in every program, whether it is a full-time learning center or a three hour part-time class.

Data useful when planning programs for adults within a specific community, county, or workplace. Information can be used for determining:

• The types of programs needed - adult basic education, literacy, family literacy, or workplace programs
• The locations for these programs - libraries, businesses, correctional facilities, institutions, shelters, nursing homes, within urban areas, within rural areas, etc.
• Resources available for promoting these programs - televisions, radio, newspaper, etc.
• Specific target populations in which to direct outreach strategies - males, females, young, elderly, confined to institutions, ESL, or those most in need of educational services