Massachusetts adult education programs are required to provide students with career exploration and planning content while simultaneously building academic skills, though they often need support to do so.
Providing standards-based, career-contextualized instruction is a win-win for teachers, advisors, and students, as it maximizes the instructional time students have in the classroom. The Inspiring Career Development and Action series is for teachers and advisors whose goals include supporting learners in pursuing educational and career opportunities while achieving academic goals.
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Teacher and advisor teams interested in deepening their ability to integrate standards and contextualize instruction with career exploration content
We strongly encourage teams of teachers and advisors to enroll in this course together, as this leads to better outcomes. Please invite a teacher or advisor from your program to join you. If you are unable to join as a team, you are still welcome to enroll, and we will support you along the way.
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
The goal of this series is to support teams in developing career-contextualized instruction and advising content that can be used right away with learners. Your work in this course will ultimately motivate learners to strive for higher educational, professional, and personal goals to improve their lives.
You will start by exploring the Inspiring Career Development and Action (ICA) curriculum and building your own skills in contextualization, collaboration, and standards-based instruction. Together with your team, you will then consider your students’ needs and interests, choose a lesson plan that works best for them and your program’s context, and use a provided template to adapt the lesson into something that you can use right away. You will also have the opportunity to reflect on the process and to receive feedback on your work from your peers and facilitators.
To support standards-integrated career-contextualized instruction and advising, this offering is a collaboration between the Program Support, English Language Arts (ELA), and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) centers.
Format & Requirements: This course consists of two two-hour sessions and three to four hours of independent work. The total estimated time to complete this course is eight hours. In addition, another one to two hours of coaching is available to support application of learning.
Part 1: Independent activities in Canvas (3/1/26–3/4/26)
Part 2: Virtual session on Zoom (3/4/26, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.)
Part 3: Independent activities in Canvas (3/4/26–3/18/26)
Part 4: Optional coaching on Zoom (3/4/26–3/18/26)
Part 5: Virtual session on Zoom (3/18/25, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.)
Access & Support: You will receive instructions for accessing the synchronous sessions via Zoom and course materials in Canvas from Sovanna Carnell Guyon. If you need technical assistance to access the course or course features, please contact Sovanna at sovanna_carnellguyon@worlded.org.
- Identify lessons and activities in the ICA curriculum that connect to your learners' career-related needs and interests, and to program goals
- Adapt lessons to help your learners develop the language and literacy skills they need
- Use collaboration strategies to develop and plan career-contextualized content for learners in your program
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
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