WL08/11: Teaching Advantage for Parents
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Conference Information
WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women & Literacy
Building Alliances / Construyendo Alianzas
March 7- 8, 2008
Fordham University at Lincoln Center (New York City)
To access the WE LEARN web page click here http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html
To access the WE LEARN web page about the conference http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html
Session: Teaching Advantage for Parents, an integrated approach to workforce and parent needs
An interactive demonstration and discussion of TAP: Teaching Advantage for Parents, a new approach to family literacy tested with 3 adult education agencies in DC. TAP teaches visual literacy strategies to uncover and build on parent strengths toward academic achievement for adults and school readiness for children
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- Good to see that it builds on parent strengths (rather then using the deficit model). What is meant by visual literacy? I have seen that phrase used in several ways.
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