Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Cultural Components of Classroom Teaching
This session will address various cultural components that affect classroom teaching. Participants will learn more about how learners from various cultures are accustomed to spe-cific approaches and classroom environments that can be delivered by the instructor. Cultural compo-nents can include degree of collaboration, silence as respect, teachers as equals or authority figures, role of learning and teaching. Participants will receive a variety of tools to identify the needs of their learners and the means to address those needs within a multicultural classroom. Finally, participants will be intro-duced to the development of an assessment tool to measure components of culture in a classroom.
Presenter: Dr. Jim I. Berger, Professor, Western Kentucky University, Kentucky
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session I, 2:10-3:40 p.m. Room: Union Square 23 & 24
Empower Students for Success
Learn how your program can provide students with learning tools to enhance aca-demic performance. Get practical ideas for providing support and resources that will enable students to successfully complete training programs and transition to employment.
Presenter: Karen Lingenfelter, Instructor, Mt. Diablo Adult Education, Concord, California
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session VI, 10:00–11:30 a.m. Room: Golden Gate 6
Improving Learning and Persistence: Part I—Special Learning Needs Incidence and Identification
What’s underlying academic/employment challenges? To find out, we identified what is going on between 8000+ students’ two ears, from 130+ adult education, transition, developmental education, and workforce development programs in 14 states. Participate in taking four, 4-minute screenings that uncover root issues with learning. Match these findings with persistence research findings/recommendations to discover how to improve services now!
Presenter:
Laura Weisel, Ph.D., Executive Partner, The TLP Group, Columbus, Ohio
NAASLN Chairperson for Conferences and Partnerships
National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs (NAASLN)
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Tuesday April 19, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session IV, 1:30–3:00 p.m. Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Improving Learning and Persistence: Part II
Building persistence, empowering students and creating learning communities all sound doable. But, building these aspects take more than a curriculum. This session will offer a review of basic brain functions that support persistence research, ways to build learning communities, and the elements of programs seeing 204% increases in persistence.
Presenter:
Laura Weisel, Ph.D., Executive Partner, The TLP Group, Columbus, Ohio
NAASLN Chairperson for Conferences and Partnerships
National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs (NAASLN)
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session V, 3:15–4:45 p.m. Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Learners with Non‐Apparent Disabilities
Teaching in an adult education or workplace program increases the chance that you are working with an individual with a non-apparent disability. This workshop will provide you with an overview of non-apparent disabilities and practical methods to understand how to assist learners to meet goals and outcomes.
Presenter: Nancie Payne, President/CEO, Payne & Associates, Inc., Washington
Presentation Format: Lecture Presentation (40 minutes)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011 Time: Concurrent Presentation II, 3:50-4:30 p.m. Room: Union Square 14
Putting Our Best Foot Forward: Helping Adults with Learning Disabilities Succeed
Participants will discuss strategies and resources in the LINCS Resource Collections that help adults successfully transition to work, vocational training, and/or postsecondary educational opportunities. Particular emphasis will be placed on exploring the challenges adults face in transitioning to and succeeding in workforce and education.
Presenter: Aaron Kohring, UT Center for Literacy Studies, Tennessee
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs Additional Educational Focus: LINCS
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session I, 2:10–3:40 p.m. Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Smart Struggling Learners? What Aren't You Looking for May be the Real Issue?
Of dropouts who have re-enrolled in basic skill, GED, or Transition courses, a staggering 50% have vision challenges and 90% report having symptoms related to Visual Stress Syndrome. If you are not checking for these two key aspects of information processing you won't know why smart struggling learners continue to struggle!
Presenter: Dr. Laura Weisel, Executive Partner and the Clinical Director of The TLP Group
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session VI, 10:00–11:30 p.m.
Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Technology for Learning in the 21st Century Classroom
For adults with low literacy skills, reading and writing is a barrier to earning a GED, to post secondary education and to good-paying jobs. In order to remove the print barrier for struggling readers, the Adult Literacy Center at Drake University has begun a research study that examines the effect of text-to-speech software that gives GED students with low literacy skills access to information that they previously struggled to read and understand.
Presenter: Anne Murr, M.S., Coordinator, Drake University Adult Literacy Center, Des Moines, Iowa; NAASLN Board Member
Presentation Format: Lecture Presentation Session (40 minutes)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Additional Educational Focus: Featured Technology Workshop
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session V, 3:15–3:55 p.m. Room: Union Square 25
This session will address various cultural components that affect classroom teaching. Participants will learn more about how learners from various cultures are accustomed to spe-cific approaches and classroom environments that can be delivered by the instructor. Cultural compo-nents can include degree of collaboration, silence as respect, teachers as equals or authority figures, role of learning and teaching. Participants will receive a variety of tools to identify the needs of their learners and the means to address those needs within a multicultural classroom. Finally, participants will be intro-duced to the development of an assessment tool to measure components of culture in a classroom.
Presenter: Dr. Jim I. Berger, Professor, Western Kentucky University, Kentucky
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session I, 2:10-3:40 p.m. Room: Union Square 23 & 24
Empower Students for Success
Learn how your program can provide students with learning tools to enhance aca-demic performance. Get practical ideas for providing support and resources that will enable students to successfully complete training programs and transition to employment.
Presenter: Karen Lingenfelter, Instructor, Mt. Diablo Adult Education, Concord, California
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session VI, 10:00–11:30 a.m. Room: Golden Gate 6
Improving Learning and Persistence: Part I—Special Learning Needs Incidence and Identification
What’s underlying academic/employment challenges? To find out, we identified what is going on between 8000+ students’ two ears, from 130+ adult education, transition, developmental education, and workforce development programs in 14 states. Participate in taking four, 4-minute screenings that uncover root issues with learning. Match these findings with persistence research findings/recommendations to discover how to improve services now!
Presenter:
Laura Weisel, Ph.D., Executive Partner, The TLP Group, Columbus, Ohio
NAASLN Chairperson for Conferences and Partnerships
National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs (NAASLN)
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Tuesday April 19, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session IV, 1:30–3:00 p.m. Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Improving Learning and Persistence: Part II
Building persistence, empowering students and creating learning communities all sound doable. But, building these aspects take more than a curriculum. This session will offer a review of basic brain functions that support persistence research, ways to build learning communities, and the elements of programs seeing 204% increases in persistence.
Presenter:
Laura Weisel, Ph.D., Executive Partner, The TLP Group, Columbus, Ohio
NAASLN Chairperson for Conferences and Partnerships
National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs (NAASLN)
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session V, 3:15–4:45 p.m. Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Learners with Non‐Apparent Disabilities
Teaching in an adult education or workplace program increases the chance that you are working with an individual with a non-apparent disability. This workshop will provide you with an overview of non-apparent disabilities and practical methods to understand how to assist learners to meet goals and outcomes.
Presenter: Nancie Payne, President/CEO, Payne & Associates, Inc., Washington
Presentation Format: Lecture Presentation (40 minutes)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011 Time: Concurrent Presentation II, 3:50-4:30 p.m. Room: Union Square 14
Putting Our Best Foot Forward: Helping Adults with Learning Disabilities Succeed
Participants will discuss strategies and resources in the LINCS Resource Collections that help adults successfully transition to work, vocational training, and/or postsecondary educational opportunities. Particular emphasis will be placed on exploring the challenges adults face in transitioning to and succeeding in workforce and education.
Presenter: Aaron Kohring, UT Center for Literacy Studies, Tennessee
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs Additional Educational Focus: LINCS
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session I, 2:10–3:40 p.m. Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Smart Struggling Learners? What Aren't You Looking for May be the Real Issue?
Of dropouts who have re-enrolled in basic skill, GED, or Transition courses, a staggering 50% have vision challenges and 90% report having symptoms related to Visual Stress Syndrome. If you are not checking for these two key aspects of information processing you won't know why smart struggling learners continue to struggle!
Presenter: Dr. Laura Weisel, Executive Partner and the Clinical Director of The TLP Group
Presentation Format: Interactive Learning Session (1.5 hour)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session VI, 10:00–11:30 p.m.
Room: Union Square 5 & 6
Technology for Learning in the 21st Century Classroom
For adults with low literacy skills, reading and writing is a barrier to earning a GED, to post secondary education and to good-paying jobs. In order to remove the print barrier for struggling readers, the Adult Literacy Center at Drake University has begun a research study that examines the effect of text-to-speech software that gives GED students with low literacy skills access to information that they previously struggled to read and understand.
Presenter: Anne Murr, M.S., Coordinator, Drake University Adult Literacy Center, Des Moines, Iowa; NAASLN Board Member
Presentation Format: Lecture Presentation Session (40 minutes)
Educational Focus: Special Learning Needs
Additional Educational Focus: Featured Technology Workshop
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Time: Concurrent Session V, 3:15–3:55 p.m. Room: Union Square 25
