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 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! |
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February 12, 2008 (4:00-5:00 PM ET)
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 |
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February 19, 2008 (4:00-5:00 PM ET)
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' |
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March 18, 2008 (4:00-5:00 PM ET)
UNAVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
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 |
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June 24, 2008 (4:00 - 5:00PM ET)
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.
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Date/Time:
July 22,
4:00 - 5:00ET
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!
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Time/Date: 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. |
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