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2010 Archives
Date/Time: May 24 (4:00 – 5:00ET)
Along With Academics, What are the Soft Skills Adult Learners Need For Success

Presenter: Robyn A. Rennick, Program Director for Dyslexia Research Institute in Tallahassee, FL, has worked in the field of dyslexia/ADHD for 29 years first as a teacher then as a principal and teacher trainer. She is a Director and Teacher/Trainer in The Hardman Technique; has developed The Dyslexia Research Institute Literacy and Life Skills Program (DRILLS), which addressed the literacy and life skills needs of adults who have dyslexia and ADHD, as well as developed a DVD called The Multisensorial Study Strategies Tool Kit, which contains 10 hour long workshops utilized by disabled students and their tutors at the college or post secondary level. She is past-president of both NAASLN and The Coalition of McKay Scholarship Schools, which is a state coalition of private schools working with students with disabilities.

Description: Adult learners entering your programs do not have just academic deficits but with many deficits in the soft skills which are necessary for success in all areas of their lives. Many of your adults learners have unidentified learning issues such as dyslexia, ADHD, and related disorders as well. Since these are truly communication disorders, these adults deal with difficulties in learning vicariously (through experience), interpreting body language, expressing their thoughts, time management, and problem solving. Discover ways that you can recognize the soft skill breakdowns and learn strategies for assisting the adult in developing more effective ways for communicating and for dealing with these other issues. If we don't teach them, who will? Handouts will be available prior to the webinar.

Date/Time: April 20 (4:00 – 5:00ET)  VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Tried and True Teaching Strategies for Students with (or without) Disabilities

Presenter: Sarah Goldammer is an Educational Specialist with the Southern Illinois Professional Development Center, part of the Illinois Community College Board Service Center Network located at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. With a B.S. in Special Education and a M.S. in Higher Education, Sarah is proud to have taught students from 3 to 83 and every age in between. She has been involved in adult education for the past eight years and has been teaching and training for over 23 years.

Session Description: So you know how to spot characteristics of your students with ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, or Learning Disabilities, but now what? Learn some practical, tried and true teaching strategies for your students with disabilities – and for those without.
 


Date/Time: March 23 (4:00 – 5:00ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
The Color Connection- Light Sensitivity & Visual Processing May Be Keeping Your Adult Students from Succeeding


Presenter:
Helen L. Irlen, MA, LMFT, Executive Director Irlen Institute International HQ, PPS Credentialed School Psychologist, Educational Therapist, Adult Learning Disability, Specialist, Board Certified Professional Counselor, Licensed Therapist. Ms Irlen is an internationally recognized educator, researcher, therapist, scholar and expert in the area of visual-perceptual processing problems. She is the author of "Reading by The Colors: A Piece of the Puzzle"
and "IRLEN REVOLUTION: A Guide to Changing Your Perception and Your Life."

Session Description:
Did you know that more than half of the adults who struggle with reading have problems with light sensitivity, glare, contrast, attention and concentration, resulting from distorted perception of print? Many of you may have heard about the research based Irlen Method which uses colored overlays and other classroom modifications to improve reading. In this webinar you will learn to recognize the symptoms of Irlen Syndrome, understand the mind-body-learning connection, and learn about modifications and classroom accommodations that will help to overcome these problems that create barriers to literacy.
 

Date/Time: February 16 (4:00–5:00ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
GED Testing Accommodations and Adaptations

How do we level the playing field for adults with special learning needs?

Presenter: Connie Leading brings 30 years of professional and personal experience to her position with the Ohio Department of Education's GED Office. As GED Testing Accommodations Manager and as the Chief Examiner for Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools in Groveport, OH, she has been instrumental in the development of curricula for public and private institutions which addresses the challenges faced by students with disabling conditions. In these capacities and as a mother of two "accommodated learners" who have experienced the emotional and physical aspects of learning through accommodations, Connie serves as a strong advocate for the needs of special students.

Description: Adults with special learning needs taking the GED fall into two categories: (1) Those adults with documented ADA disabilities, who require accommodations such as extended time, supervised breaks, scribes, audiocassettes. (2) Those adults, for whom teachers have identified learning needs requiring adaptations or modifications such as magnifiers, colored overlays, straight edges, rooms without fluorescent lighting, etc. These latter adaptations do not require prior approval by the GED state offices.

This session will clarify information concerning accommodations and adaptations and will provide effective ways to prepare your students to use these tools to successfully pass the GED Test.

 


A Special Mini Series within the NAASLN Webinar Series

Special discount offer for the 4 videos of Dr. Cooper's Teaching Math to Adults Who have Learning Differences" webinars

LIMITED TIME ONLY


The popular four-part series, “Teaching Math to Adults Who Have Learning Differences,” by Dr. Richard Cooper, is available for a limited time only for $80 members, $100 non-members.

Math I: Learning Differences, Difficulties and Disabilities that Limit Math Skills
Math II: Developing Number Sense and Quantitative Concepts with Adults Who Learn Differently
Math III: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
Math IV: Teaching Fractions to Adults with Learning Differences

Each one-hour webinar demonstrates proven techniques that address problems with auditory processing, attention, right/left discrimination, memory, organization, and sequencing.

Normally priced at $40 per session, this package is a bargain addition to all professional development libraries.

Offer good until April 30, 2010.



Presenter:
Richard Cooper Ph.D., Director and Founder of the Center for Alternative Learning, is a nationally acclaimed learning specialist, trainer, speaker and author with 25 years of experience as an adult educator, providing staff development training nation wide on the subjects related to learning disabilities, problems and differences. At conferences and training programs across the county Dr. Cooper’s sessions are always well received.

Date: January 20 (4:00 – 5:00ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Math IV: Teaching Fractions to Adults with Learning Differences

This 1 hour webinar will provide the participants with a variety of techniques for teaching fractions to adults who understand “parts” in everyday life but cannot make the connection between the numbers and the quantities.

Date: January 6 (4:00– 5:00ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Math III: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division


This 1 hour webinar will demonstrate alternative techniques that the presenter has found useful with adults who have problems learning. He will demonstrate techniques for completing the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The presenter will explain that the hierarchy of number fact knowledge that he has developed and show how adults can increase their speed and accuracy and self confidence about doing basic arithmetic.
2009 Archives
Date/Time: December 16 (4:00 – 5:00ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Math II: Developing Number Sense and Quantitative Concepts with Adults Who Learn Differently


This 1 hour webinar will provide participants with techniques for instructing adults who have underdeveloped number sense and poor quantitative concepts. Participants will learn why some basic concepts are misunderstood by adults with learning problems and the presenter will explain how to fill gaps that many of these adults have in their understanding of numbers quantities and math operations.

Date/Time: December 2 (4:00 – 5:00ET)  VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Math I - Learning Differences, Difficulties and Disabilities that Limit Math Skills


This one hour webinar will provide participants with information about the effects learning problems have on math. The characteristics of the thought processes include auditory processing problems, attention problems, right/left discrimination problems, memory problems organization and sequencing problems. Suggestions for dealing with these various problems will be intertwined into the presentation.

Date/Time: November 16 (4:00 – 5:00ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Using Games Effectively to Assure Success for a Broad Range of ESOL Learners

Presenter: Robin Lovrien Schwarz has been an ESL teacher for more than 40 years and a consultant, trainer, and writer in the field of learning difficulties in adult ESOL learners for more than 20 years. Most recently, she authored a chapter in “Learning to Achieve,” NIFL’s literature review of current research on LD and adult learners, published in July. Currently, she is teaching teachers at three colleges, teaching college ESOL and conducting multi-year professional development for ESOL teachers in New York, and at a charter school for adult ESOL learners in Washington, DC, where she resides.

Description:
Games are an excellent way of involving learners of many levels and backgrounds in learning activities and ensuring a high level of practice. In this session, Ms. Schwarz will suggest a few simple games for adult ESOL and explain how learners can use them for a wide range of learning and skill practice. She will also address learner-reluctance to use games.

Date/Time: October 19 (4:00 - 5:00ET)  
Emotions Impact Learning -Part II – Techniques to Address Emotional Issues of Adult Learners

Presenter:
Dr Laura Weisel, Executive Partner and the Clinical Director of The TLP Group. As a nationally known speaker and facilitator, Dr. Weisel has over thirty years of experience in both the private and service sectors.

Description:
In Part II, Techniques to Address Emotional Issues of Adult Learners, participants will learn how to implement specific techniques to immediately help learners struggling with crisis situations and old baggage get beyond their current emotional situation and get back on track toward achieving their stated learning and employment goals!

 


Date/Time: September 14 (4:00 - 5:00ET) 
Emotions Impact Learning
Part I – The Neurological Underpinnings of Emotions
VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE

Presenter: Dr Laura Weisel, Executive Partner and the Clinical Director of The TLP Group. As a nationally known speaker and facilitator, Dr. Weisel has over thirty years of experience in both the private and service sectors.

Description: Do the students in your program move out of one emotional crisis and into another? Do they begin your program with great gusto and then drop out? Do students often forget information they just learned last week?

Part I, The Neurological Underpinnings of Emotions, will offer an understanding of how and why emotions are brain functions that are core and key to learning, why childhood negative educational experiences continue to impact adult learning, and how ignored emotional issues can impact learning.

Date/Time: August 24 (4:00-5:00 ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
The Dyslexic Brain:  Why Should Teachers Care? What Should They Know?

Presenter:
Dr. Patricia Hardman, Director of Dyslexia Research Institute, based in Tallahassee, Florida, has studied and worked in the field of dyslexia and attention deficit disorders since 1969. Dr. Hardman studied under and worked on primary research in the field of dyslexia with Dr. Charles L. Shedd from 1969 until his death in 1975, and in the field of bio-chemistry and nutrition with Dr. Mary Allen of the Allen Metabolic and Genetic Institute of Richmond, Virginia. She has researched and published with William Shipman, M.D., and Allan Lieberman, M.D., Judith Clay, O.D., and D. Gene Morton, M.D. in the areas of allergies as they affect the dyslexic child and adult.

Dr. Hardman has developed a multi-sensorial, structured language program called The Hardman Technique. Since dyslexic and ADHD individuals learn differently, she developed a curriculum in reading, math, and written expression which presents material to them in the way they learn. This has been effectively used in private and public schools and with children and adults. More information concerning Dr. Hardman and Dyslexia Research Institute may be found at www.dyslexia-add.org and at www.learntolearn.biz

Description: Did you known that the dyslexic brain is different ? Differences don’t just exist in the phonological processing areas, but in areas affecting language and affecting critical reasoning. Differences also exist in the biochemistry of the dyslexic. Mood, attention, memory are affected by these differences.

So why should adult educators care? Did you know……..

“Dyslexia affects one out of 5 children in the United States.” Not our words, but the National Institute of Health’s findings. Yet, K-12 education still has not come to grips with the reality of 20% of their population needing to be taught differently. You don’t grow out of dyslexia, it doesn’t go away, and when it is not addressed properly in childhood a myriad of additional problems exist and need to be addressed in the adult education world.

If you teach adults, especially in ABE courses or remedial courses, you are teaching many unidentified dyslexic individuals. Because of lack of identification, high numbers of students in adult education programs continue to struggle. With the influx of people being unemployed and returning to the classroom for training, many individuals with dyslexia are being forced back into learning situations which are not designed for them.

Educators who understand these differences can begin to change their teaching systems to match the learning styles of their students. Understanding these differences and assisting their students to understand their unique learning differences allows those with dyslexic to break through the barriers that have so often held them back or perpetuated failure.


Date/Time: July 13 (4:00-5:00 ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Structured Learning

Presenter:
Richard Cooper, Ph.D., Director and Founder of the Center for Alternative Learning; is a nationally acclaimed learning specialist, trainer, speaker and author with 25 years of experience as an adult educator, providing staff development training nation wide on the subjects related to learning disabilities, problems and differences. At conferences and training programs across the county Dr. Cooper’s sessions are always well received.

Description:
Many adult students who have learning or attention problems manifest poor organizational skills and appear to lack structure. While most learners are able to structure their studying to master the course material, students who have learning problems seem to “spin their wheels trying this and that” and make little progress. Their lack of structure often results in inefficiencies and ineffectiveness when learning and studying. This presentation will provide participants with techniques to help adult learners who have problems with organization and structure.
 

Date/Time: April 29 (4:00-5:00 ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Learning Styles

Presenter:
Donita Kaare is the Learning Skills Center Director at Olney Central College. She has worked in Adult Education for the past 23 years as a teacher and a director. Mrs. Kaare is a credentialed Resource Specialist at the ABE and College level and has served on the ABE, ADA guidelines committee for Illinois as well as the Illinois ABE Content Standards Committee. She is currently serving as the Conference Chairman for the Illinois Adult and Continuing Educators Association (IACEA) state conference. She has made some fifty presentations on Learning Styles to students and/or educators at regional, state, and national conferences.

Description:
Do you know your learning styles? Do you assess your student’s learning styles? Whose learning styles do you teach to? This session will include an assessment of your learning style as well as specific recommendations for working with each of the learning styles. Join us for this session and learn how to reach all individuals with learning style differences.
Date/Time: April 7 (4:00 – 5:00 ET)  VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Dyslexia – Attention Deficit Disorders – Learning Differences: It’s Not Just Academics that keep These Adults from Succeeding

Presenter: Robyn A. Rennick, Program Director for Dyslexia Research Institute in Tallahassee, FL, has worked in the field of dyslexia/ADHD for 29 years first as a teacher then as a principal and teacher trainer. She is a Director and Teacher/Trainer in The Hardman Technique; has developed The Dyslexia Research Institute Literacy and Life Skills Program (DRILLS), which addressed the literacy and life skills needs of adults who have dyslexia and ADHD, as well as developed a DVD called The Multisensorial Study Strategies Tool Kit, which contains 10 hour long workshops utilized by disabled students and their tutors at the college or post secondary level. She is past-president of both NAASLN and The Coalition of McKay Scholarship Schools, which is a state coalition of private schools working with students with disabilities.

Description: Adults with dyslexia, ADHD, and related disorders don’t just bring to the classroom issues with academics. Since these are truly communication disorders, these adults deal with difficulties in learning vicariously (through experience), interpreting body language, expressing their thoughts, time management, and problem solving. Discover ways that you can recognize the soft skill breakdowns and learn strategies for assisting the adult in developing more effective ways for communicating and for dealing with these other issues. If we don't teach them, who will? Handouts will be available prior to the webinar.



 
Date/Time: March 17 (4:00 - 5:00 ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
The Impact of Culture on the ESOL Learner


Presenter: Robin Lovrien Schwarz, M.Sp.Ed:LD, has been a consultant, trainer and writer in the field of learning difficulties in adult ESOL learners for 20 years. Currently, she is conducting multi-year professional development for ESOL teachers in NY State and at a school for adult ESOL learners in Washington, DC, where she resides.

Description: Culture plays a large, and often unseen, role in how adult English language learners learn. In this webinar, the impact of culture on learning will be illustrated with some anecdotes and information from research. Find out how you can learn more about your own cultural biases, as well as those of your learners. References for reading and learning will be provided.

Date/Time: February 24 (4:00 - 5:00 ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE

Test Anxiety

 

Presenter: Richard Cooper, Ph.D., Director and Founder of the Center for Alternative Learning; is a nationally acclaimed learning specialist, trainer, speaker and author with 25 years of experience as an adult educator, providing staff development training nation wide on the subjects related to learning disabilities, problems and differences. At conferences and training programs across the county Dr. Cooper’s sessions are always well received

 

Description: Test anxiety is a problem for many students. This presentation will discuss how to help students understand and cope with test anxiety.  The presenter will also demonstrate techniques to help students prepare for and take tests.  These include learning how to teach students relaxation techniques and study skills.  Techniques for analyzing test taking problems will also be  demonstrated.  This presentation will conclude with a brief discussion of when to implement accommodations.

2008 Archives
November 18 (4:00 – 5:00 ET)
Brain-Based Natural Human Learning

When we know the brain’s natural learning process, we know how to help our students be the motivated, successful, natural learners that they were born to be

Presenter:
Rita Smilkstein, Ph.D., Woodring College of Education, Western Washington University, frequent speaker nationally and internationally, author of textbooks and articles on teaching study skills and grammar and how to apply the brain's natural learning process to curriculum development and instructional methods across the disciplines.

Description:
This presentation will focus on how the brain learns and how human beings naturally learn. It will then show that these two areas of research converge to become the basis for brain-based curriculum and pedagogy.  With this information educators can help their students be engaged, confident, successful learners.

October 14 (4:00 - 5:00ET)  AUDIO AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING
Structured Learning


Presenter: Dr. Richard Cooper

Description:
Learn about techniques to help adult learners who have problems with organization and structure.

September 25 (4:00 - 5:00ET)
Strategies for Passing the GED Mathematics Test

Description: How can we help students pass the GED Math Test? In this workshop, participants will focus on problem-solving strategies that their students can master to pass the GED. Participants will analyze GED math questions, learn how they can engage different learning styles to help students succeed with GED math, and discuss a variety of interactive strategies that they can apply to Pre-GED and GED Math classes. They will also preview published materials that incorporate these strategies.


August 19 (4:00 - 5:00ET)
GED Testing Accommodations and Adaptations
: What’s the difference? AND How do we level the playing field for adults with special learning needs?

Presenter: Conni Leading, GED Testing Accommodations Manager & Chief Examiner for Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools in Groveport, Ohio, brings 28 years of professional and personal experience to her position. As a mother of two sons with special learning needs, she has developed a unique understanding of the emotional and physical aspects of learning with accommodations and adaptations, and because of this serves as a strong advocate for the needs of special students.

Description: Adults with special learning needs taking the GED fall into two categories: (1) Those adults with documented ADA disabilities, who require accommodations such as extended time, supervised breaks, scribes, audiocassettes. (2) Those adults, for whom teachers have identified learning needs requiring adaptations or modifications such as magnifiers, colored overlays, straight edges, rooms without fluorescent lighting, etc. These latter adaptations do not require prior approval by the GED state offices.


July 22 (4:00 - 5:00ET)  VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Managing an Adult ESOL Class with Multiple Skill Levels
—Curriculum, techniques, materials, and resources that work.

Presenter: Robin Lovrien Schwarz, M. Sp. Ed: LD has been an ESOL teacher with 40 years experience and a specialist in LD. Ms. Schwarz is currently a consultant to numerous school districts around the country. She has participated in numerous state and national initiatives on adult ESOL, has authored numerous articles and book chapters, and is currently doing contract writing for the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL).

Description: One of the greatest challenges facing many ESOL teachers is a class where students have many different skill levels.  In this "Webinar," Robin Lovrien Schwarz will teach you three different approaches to managing such a class.  After each approach is discussed online, you will have the opportunity to create materials and plans for your own class and get feedback on design and implementation.   Handouts will be available to download, and unlike in a one-time, live session, you will get to ask those questions you think of the next day!


June 24 (4:00 - 5:00PM ET) VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Asperger’s Syndrome and the Adult Education Class

Presenter: Bevan Gibson, MS SpEd, is a current board member of the National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs. She serves as the Director of the Southern Illinois Professional Development Center and is a state trainer for special learning needs in Illinois. In addition, she is a leader in the state’s adult education special learning needs endeavors.

Description: With an increasing number of students with Asperger’s Syndrome in adult education classrooms, we need to understand more about Asperger’s and what we can do as an instructor to assist these students in our programs.

In this webinar you will learn about the characteristics of Aspergers:

poor affect
poor socialization skills
obsession on complex topics
difficulty understanding non-verbal cues
sensory overload

Discuss how these and comorbid conditions (depression, ADHD) manifest them selves in the classroom and learn interventions that you can use to assist your student in having a successful and positive learning experience.


March 18 (4:00-5:00 PM ET)
Part Three - Implement Interventions

- Compounding issues underlying memories, feelings, and learning success
- Your personal experiences in using the four interventions
- How interventions can impact persistence and successful transitions

Emotions! Supporting the Critical Prerequisite to Learning

Dr. Laura Weisel
Clinical Services, The TLP Group
P.O. Box 21510, Columbus, OH 43221
Phone: (614) 950-9677  FAX: (614) 850-8676
dr.weisel@powerpath.com

Experience in Adult Education and Experience as a Presenter
Dr. Laura Weisel
has over 30 years experience in education, research, and behavioral healthcare. As a leader in researching and advocating for systemic changes to support persons with special learning needs and learning disabilities, Dr. Weisel consults with numerous programs and state organizations while she continues research, development, and training on PowerPath to Education and Employment -- a comprehensive system for learning and retooling educational services.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Weisel presented over 1000 conference presentations and seminar sessions. Dr. Weisel is the Past President of the National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs.

Presentation Abstract
Do your students move out of one emotional crisis and into another? Are your dropout rates higher than you'd like them to be? Are you seeing less progress than you think your students are capable of making?

This three-part session offers an understanding of brain research on how emotions at the core to all learning, how negative educational experiences impact learning, and four specific research-based best practices you can immediately use to help all learners begin to manage their education-related baggage, recurring crisis situations, and fears of success!

February 19 (4:00-5:00 PM ET)
VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Part Two - Rethink Your Role:  Four Interventions

- Installing Positive Futures
- Building a 'Safe Place'
- Asking the Four Questions to Manage Crisis Situations
- Facilitating 'Conversation that Matter'

February 12 (4:00-5:00 PM ET) 
VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND VIEW ONLINE
Part One - Increase Your Understanding

- Hear from program participants about their past educational experiences
- Learn about the neurological workings of the brain and the limbic system's role in learning