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Auditory Processing: Potential Effect on Learning
A Technology Breakthrough for Educators and Students
Overcoming Fear and Shame:
It is Never Too Late to Learn
An Editorial Consultant and Writer Extraordinaire
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CONFERENCE INFORMATION The NADE 2003 conference held in Austin Texas included many interesting institutes, sessions, exhibits and other events. Dr. Earl Hawley (who is reviewing Pre/Post Institutes for the NADE 2004 Conference) presented an institute with Timothy Gordon on Developmental Education and Learning Communities: Confronting Diversity, Creating Harmony for developmental education students at two and four year colleges and universities. The featured speakers included Jean Gatz, who included strategies for achieving personal and professional harmony, and John Storan, who spoke on Celebrating Diversity and Challenging Exclusion. Both were very informative and well received. There was a wide range of sessions offered at the conference. A session on the success for students with disabilities was very helpful and presented many interesting stories of actual students. Adapting developmental course content to align with changing realities offered some strategies for students to be able to do well in a struggling environment. Sessions on creating dynamic developmental learning communities and working with graphics in mathematics papers and web pages proved useful to many instructors. Facilitating academic success and retention was especially helpful and filled with fine level of content. Other sessions included challenged students challenge a university, self-management for college students: the ABC approach, and the relationship between monitor group participation and final course grade. Thank you to those who attended my session on applying brain research theory to practice, and for all of your kind comments. The Harmony in Diversity Celebration offered delicious food and fascinating multi-cultural music for a fun evening of sharing and relaxing in the midst of educational interchange. The exhibit booths included Townsend Press, CRLA, Steck-Vaughn, and the NADE 2004 booth manned by Dave DeFrain and Shirey Van Hook, among others, who will welcome attendees next year. . See you in St. Louis! Upcoming conference schedules: AHEAD IDA |
