Developmental Student Success

Developmental Student Success
April 1st, 2010 (focus: hybrid course work)
April 8th, 2010 (focus: developmental writing)
Online webinars
Host: Innovative Educators

NOTE: You can register for one or both. Payment
is not required prior to date of event.
Participating institutions receive access to the
recording for one full year.

WEBINAR 1
Title: Developmental Students: Using Hybrid
Coursework to Improve Electronic Literacy
Date: Thursday, April 1st, 1:00-2:30pm EDT
http://www.innovativeeducators.org/retention_p/782.htm

OVERVIEW
Literacy is more than reading and writing via
paper in our post-modern age. Developmental
students - underprepared or misprepared - need
strategies for navigating and using screen-based
mediums as much as they need to learn how to
handle traditional print. Using blended learning
in classes that meet both face-to-face and online,
we can help nontraditional students enter the
world of academic discourse, as well as engage
them by utilizing current technologies.

WEBINAR 2
Developmental Writing: Insights on
Instructional Strategies for Student Success
Date: Thursday, April 8th, 1:00-3:00pm EDT
http://www.innovativeeducators.org/retention_p/779.htm

OVERVIEW
This session will offer fresh, specific,
research-based, and research-proven perspectives
on the teaching of developmental writing. Its
foundational content is a body of cognitive
research that includes the presenter's extensive
twenty-year research program and captures the
nature of developmental writing. The presenter
will summarize the research, offering clear
descriptions of what developmental writers know
and do when they compose text and how they differ
from at-level writers. This information points
not only to what developmental writers need to
achieve but also to how they can exceed all
expectations for writing improvement and success,
including the retention and application of skills
studied, through appropriate learning activities.
Within this framework, the session focuses
specifically and in detail on materials, class
activities, and assignments that have proven
successful in raising the achievement rates of
underprepared and reticent writing students.
Discussion will take into account and address some
of the factors that impede developmental writers'
success—lack of motivation, interest, or
engagement; absenteeism; and the stigma often
associated with development placement.

Enquiries: pam@ieinfo.org
Web address: http://www.innovativeeducators.org
Sponsored by: Innovative Educators
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