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Welcome to the WVABE Wiki

The WVABE Professional Development (PD) Wiki is a place for practitioners involved with the West Virginia Adult Basic Education (WVABE) program to communicate and share with one another. We hope you will sign up to become a member. Look at the box on the right for more information about joining the wiki. This site can be accessed most easily using Mozilla Firefox as the browser (rather than Internet Explorer).

Look at the navigation box on the left and you will see the various wiki pages you can visit. From this home page, you can find resource pages for new instructors, for core training sessions, for OPT orientation, lesson ideas, for career awareness, for writing, etc. Below, you will also find links to PD information and frequently used PD forms.
PD Information Links

WVABE Calendar of Events:
WVABE Professional Development Requirements:
- See the Instructor Handbook, Section 11

WVABE-PD Portaportal
- Links to Certification Information
- Links to Online Professional Development Opportunities
- Links to State, and National Conferences

Professional Development travel grants available through WVAEA, Inc.

Resources for WVABE Core Sessions and Follow-up Activities

WVABE File Cabinet

Frequently Used PD Forms

Elective credit for attending workshops, conferences, or college courses offered by other organizations:
- Submit the Request for WVABE Professional Development Credit.

Core Credit Request Forms:

Elective Credit for visiting another WVABE class:
- Submit the WVABE In-Service Class Visit Report

Distance Education Certification
- http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BF4TQKJBX
In-Service Workshop Forms for Coordinators and Trainers:

Pre-service Forms for Newly-hired instructors

Checking Your PD Record in AEMIS

To check your Individual Professional Development Record via AEMIS, the Adult Education Management Information System, here is what to do:
- Go to the AEMIS homepage. Type your email address and log in using your password. If you do not know your password, click on “Forgot your password?” and a new password will be sent to your email address.
- On the left side, go to the “Professional Development” button and find “View Professional Development”. You will see your Transcript. Check to be sure it is accurate.
- At the top left is your “Personal Information”: your Name, Status (P/T or F/T), and your grantee.
- At the top right is your “Address”: your address and telephone.
- Next, you see your “PD Summary”: this shows each year and the number of core and elective hours accrued during that fiscal/program year.
- To the right is your “Current Year Status”: this shows how many hours you are required and how many you have completed.
- Next, you see your “In-service History”: At the top of this section is a list of core in-service sessions you have completed, starting with the most recent. Then, you see the electives you have completed starting with the most recent.
- Next, you see a chance for you to confirm if the information is correct or not and a box for you to describe any problems you see.

Modify AEMIS password or Personal Info

You can modify or change your password or update any of the data in your user profile. To check the accuracy of your profile:
- Go to the AEMIS website: http://wvabe.org/aemis
- Log on to AEMIS by entering your email address and the password above.
- On the left side of the screen, click on the “Edit Profile” button. You may now make changes to your password or any of the “User Information” or “Contact Information” fields.
- It is highly recommended that you make your password a combination of letters and/or numbers that is familiar to you. Again, write down your password, keeping it in a secure place.

Join the Wiki!

Please take a moment to become a member of the wiki community. Look in the upper right corner and click on "Sign up."

After joining, sign-in at the very top right.

Once you have joined and signed in, experiment with adding a photo image and a profile. Learn how to add a profile photo at this link. You can also write a few things about yourself as an introduction.

Apply to Be a Writer by clicking on the button at the top of the page and you will be able to edit wiki pages, add threads, and post attachments.

The more you play with this site, and become familiar, the more applications you may see for how to use blogs and wikis with students in adult education programs.

Finding Your Way Around this Wiki

If you have already visited this site, look at the top and click on Updates to see what's been added lately or click on Discussions to see the Threads and Replies that have been posted recently.

Look at the Navigation box on the left and you will see the various Wiki Pages you can visit.

Scroll down to the bottom of a page and you can see the Conversation Threads. Click on a Thread Subject and you can read all the replies that have been posted. You can also Start a New Thread if you want to begin a new topic. Be sure to sign your thread so that others know your name.

What is a Wiki Anyway?A wiki (wick'-e) is a a type of web site that allows anyone to add or edit content via an easy to use browser interface. For an excellent discussion of what a wiki is and how a wiki can be used to facilitate group projects, discussion groups, and knowledge repositories read "What is a Wiki (and How to Use One For Your Project") by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb.

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BevBaccala

What are you doing for lifelong learning?

Apr 19 2012, 12:36 PM EDT by MHayslette

Thread started: Feb 18 2010, 10:47 PM EST Watch

It's too quiet on this WVABE Wiki. I'd like to challenge instructors to share some ideas about lifelong learning.
1) What are you doing to keep your brain healthy and nimble?
2) Have you participated in any formal learning activities for work and/or for fun that were not WVABE sponsored? If so, was the learning face-to-face or online?
3) Tell us about something new you've learned in the last week!

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helenaellis

Learning to play BRIDGE

Apr 19 2012, 12:32 PM EDT by MHayslette

Thread started: Feb 14 2011, 10:12 AM EST Watch

I spent five hours this week-end learning to play Bridge. What a complicated card game! Three friends and had a great Saturday afternoon learning and stretching my brain. One of the friends took on the monumental task to teach us the basics of Bridge. Making the deck instead of shuffling? Proper "Bridge etiquette". Bidding, leading, the dummy, tricks. So many new terms that I have never used, at least in the context of Bridge. It really challenged my mind because it required learning a new game, remembering what others played, learning the stradegies of the game, learning the value of the cards. We will be meeting once per week so we don't forget what we have already learned and of course, to socialize and have fun. It was a great experience.

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hawk663

Overwhelmed with paperwork and students

Sep 22 2009, 9:19 PM EDT by caroletotten

Thread started: Sep 15 2009, 12:59 PM EDT Watch

DHHR paperwork for refered students is beginning to consume a lot of instructor time. In addition we averaging 20+ intakes every intake session. Students are popping up from everywhere. We have doubled the size of the class space and our enrollment has tripled. We're doing the best job possible and going broke. Instructors are getting burned out..........How can i help them???

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RE: Overwhelmed with paperwork and students
By: caroletotten, Sep 22 2009, 9:19 PM EDT

I feel your pain. We, too have increased our enrollment--thank goodness-since last year we had dismal AEMIS statistics for student hours. I don't know how your center is organized or how many teachers you have, but one of the things we have started doing is more organized group lessons. We advertise a fraction class, say, to our enrolled and incoming students--four sessions long, held in a separate room for 90 minutes, two days a week for two weeks. We tell the students they must attend all classes. We tailor the instruction to teach only what is necessary to know on the GED (according to what's on the OPTs). This attracts a large number of students who then are out of the learning center; their needs are met because they were all freaked about fractions; the students who are left in the learning center get more individualized attention from the other staff member/s. The teachers are less burnt out because they can actually work with the students who need it most, and the group lessons teach a necessary skill to a large number of people at one time. So far, it's working pretty well. We will offer these classes in the morning and the afternoon. Anyway, that's what we are trying. I don't know if that would work for you or not.

The other thing you can try, of course, is quoting numbers to your boss/es; if your AEMIS numbers support that you need another staff member, you can say--either let us limit enrollment OR get us some part time help. It KILLS ABE people to limit enrollment (haha) so maybe they'll find you some part time help. If you don't ask, you don't get... ;-)

About the DHHR paperwork--maybe you could meet with the DHHR people and let them know that their requirements are too time-consuming; if you go to this meeting with concrete suggestions about how the situation could be improved/streamlined, it could be a win/win for everyone.

Good luck!

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