Adult Education Event Registration

September 24, 2010 – Oracy Workshop – Presenter Tom Sticht (8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.)  Augusta Civic Center

Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education will present the Oracy Workshop.

Many adults who are native English language speakers still lack sufficient oracy and literacy skills for school learning, technical

training, college, and successful career progression. Though considerable attention has been given to the role of literacy in these life roles, less attention has been given to the oracy skills. Because of the critical role that oracy skills play in the acquisition of language, literacy, and knowledge in all aspects of life, efforts are needed to develop more effective and efficient methods to help children and adults impart and construct knowledge using the spoken language, i.e., oracy.

The Oracy Workshop will save busy educators and trainers the time of doing extensive research in libraries and online, reading and synthesizing hundreds of books, journals, and technical reports, and culling through numerous specifications of standards and progressions for listening and speaking in educational programs. It will provide a one-day,  comprehensive overview of a large amount of research and practice that has been demonstrated to increase the ability of children and adults to communicate and learn more effectively by oracy, to improve their literacy via oracy, and to learn and perform in education, job training, and on the job more effectively using improved oracy skills. While focused on the native English speaker, the information may also be of interest to those teaching English for speakers of other languages (ESOL).

Registration for non-adult education people will be $15.00 each.

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