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Workforce Development Professionals
FREE Facilitator / Teacher Workshop:
Teaching with Workplace Essential Skills

This workshop introduces you to Workplace Essential Skills, a complete program offering video, print and web support that reaches intermediate-level learners who need to improve their opportunities in the workplace.

Workforce development professionals can connect adults whose goal is to get into the workplace or get ahead at work using these materials.

You will receive a set of free workbooks, be introduced to the materials, and receive hands-on training how to best use the materials in a classroom setting, in one-on-one instruction, and in independent study.

FREE materials provided: Attendees will receive a FREE 4-volume set of Workplace Essential Skills workbooks. Also, you will be given directions to several FREE web resources for teachers and students, including online streaming videos that accompany each of the 25 lessons.

When: Thursday, May 21, 2009 — 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Where: ThinkTV, 110 S Jefferson St. Dayton, OH 45402

Register NOW — Space Limited!

To register contact Mary Anne Kirk at 937-220-1707 or mkirk@thinktv.org

Download Flyer here: [flyer pdf]

Ohio Ready to WorkOhio Ready to Work
If your students or adult learners need help passing the GED or need help improving their workplace skills, resources are now available! ThinkTV in partnership with Ohio Ready to Work, the Dayton Metro Library, and with generous support from the George P. Quatman Fund –Fifth Third Bank Trustee, has placed copies of the award winning series GED Connections and Workplace Essential Skills in the Main branch of the Dayton Metro Library. The DVD learning modules and accompanying workbooks are now available for checkout! For more information please visit: www.daytonmetrolibrary.org

Order Workplace Essential Skills online from ThinkTV.

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If you're interested in learning more about GED Connection, contact the Ohio Literacy Network at 1-800-228-7323. You'll get information about options for getting your GED - so you can decide what's best for you.

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