Welcome to Literacy Minnesota's online training site.
We offer training for adult literacy volunteers and professional development courses for Adult Basic Education teachers and staff. There are also a few courses that offer content directly to adult learners. If you work or volunteer in another setting, such as K-12 education, you are welcome to browse our resources. Simply keep in mind that the intended audience is adult learners and the practitioners who work with them.
If you are new to this site, you may create a Username and Password by clicking Create new account under the login box to the left. If you have previously used this site but have lost or forgotten your login information, contact Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt at swbrandt@literacymn.org.
Note: if you have not logged in for more than 6 months, you may need to create a new account. Accounts unused for 180 days or more may be deleted to make space for new users.
If you are not a resident of Minnesota, please read the Out-of-State Users Policy document below.
Good Luck! If you have any questions or encounter any problems while using this site, please contact Susan.
Available courses
Required
orientation for Literacy Leadership AmeriCorps VISTA members.
- Teacher: Stephanie Lewis
- Teacher: Stephanie Lewis
- Teacher: Meghan Paul-Cook
- Teacher: Courtney Zaato
Required orientation for Summer Reads AmeriCorps VISTA members.
- Teacher: Stephanie Lewis
- Teacher: Stephanie Lewis
- Teacher: Meghan Paul-Cook
This course is for Adult Basic Education practitioners to learn about suicide prevention best practices.
This course offers 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
- Teacher: Wendy Sweeney
- Teacher: Lori Yurick
This training prepares new volunteers to work in an adult ESL classroom, and provides ongoing development for experienced classroom volunteers. Topics covered include volunteer roles, culture and cultural awareness, responding to errors, and effective floating in the ESL classroom.
Approximate time to complete course: 3 hours.
- Teacher: Andrea Echelberger
Tutoring Basics will provide you with core strategies for structuring a tutoring session that is intentional and skill-based. If you’re new to tutoring K-12 students, this workshop is a great place to start!
E-mail Kelly at krynda@mnliteracy.org for access to this course.
- Teacher: Rob Podlasek
- Teacher: Kelly Rynda
Introductory course that provides a foundation for further learning. Appropriate for those who work with public school students and their managers/supervisors.
E-mail Kelly at krynda@mnliteracy.org for access to this course.
- Teacher: Rob Podlasek
- Teacher: Kelly Rynda
This course offers 3 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
- Teacher: Wendy Sweeney
- Teacher: Lori Yurick
- Teacher: Marisa Geisler
- Teacher: Stephanie Sommers
- Teacher: Marn Frank
The Citizenship Tutor Training educates teachers and tutors to assist students in preparing for United States Citizenship through naturalization.
This course offers 3 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Approximate time to complete course: 3 hours.
- Teacher: Andrea Echelberger
This course takes approximately 6 hours to complete and offers 6 CEUs.
- Teacher: Cathy Grady
- Teacher: Cathy Grady
- Teacher: Marn Frank
This course will offer volunteers, teachers, and program managers an overview of the curriculum development process and provide tools and resources for evaluating and writing curriculum for adult English learners.
This course offers 6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Approximate time to complete course: 6 hours.
- Teacher: Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt
- Teacher: Marn Frank
This course offers 5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).Approximate time to complete course: 5 hours.
This class will provide ABE and ESL teachers with ideas for effectively using volunteers in their classrooms.
This course offers 2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).Approximate time to complete course: 2 hours.
- Teacher: Rob Podlasek
This course will prepare adult learners for a career as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
- Teacher: Kathy Bjornson
- Teacher: Mary Kate Lewis
- Teacher: Julia Tabbut
This course will prepare adult learners for a career in the care of young children.
- Teacher: Mary Kate Lewis
- Teacher: Julia Tabbut
This course will prepare adult learners for a career in a medical office setting.
- Teacher: Mary Kate Lewis
- Teacher: Julia Tabbut
This course will prepare adult learners for a career in manufacturing.
- Teacher: Mary Kate Lewis
- Teacher: Julia Tabbut
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This semester course is meant to connect the earliest forms of human writing to the kinds of stories we tell and where we might be heading.
Students will work on reading early human literature; exposure to Greek Mythology and British Romanticism. They will also work on the processes of preparing, evaluating, and delivering multiple forms of written communication.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This is a 6th grade, year-long course aligned to MN State Academic Standards. It is a collaborative effort by over a dozen MN School districts.
This version of the course uses embedded Google Docs so that course updates may be made via the MNPCC.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
This course is a teacher resource only. It is not for student enrollment.
- Teacher: Sean Scarbrough
- Teacher: Jon Weiss
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