Registration & Publisher's Exhibits

Welcome and Program Notes
Carol Udman, President of MAC²

Keynote Speaker
Adult Education with Pizazz
Dr. Mary Bigler
Educational Consultant
Professor, Eastern Michigan University

Tract I Presentations

Creating Strategic Readers

Dr. Mary Bigler
Educational Consultant

This practical and enjoyable workshop will focus on strategies and materials to assist adult students in becoming active, engaged readers. You will leave with ideas you can implement immediately.

Discovering One's Self

Jennifer A Phillips and Jeff Tunnicliff
Teacher and Counselor
Riverside Academy, L'Anse Creuse

Discovery gives students a toolbox filled with information about study skills, self-esteem, emotions, conflict resolution, and goal setting in order to achieve successful school and life experiences.

Teaching the GED 2002

Sharon Penland Mace
GED Teacher, Hazel Park

Focused instructional strategies that will raise GED scores. Emphasis will be on GED test taking preparation and classroom management.

Meeting the Needs of ESL Students

Ruth Hayes, Teacher
Oakland Community College

A teacher's role in developing students' communicative competence in the classroom will be examined, as well as alternative methods of teaching grammar through the use of authentic materials.

Learning from the Publishers

Lunch - Elections

Afternoon Session

Dianne Duthie, Ken Walsh, Dr. Mary Bigler

Dianne Duthie, State Director, Office of Adult Education
Ken Walsh, Executive Director, MACAE

"Report from the State"

Tract I Presentations

ESL Round Table

Ruth Hayes Teacher
Oakland Community College

Best practices round table. Take away ideas from colleagues - what works for the ESL student. There will also be a mini presentation from New Readers Press.

A Picture and A Thousand Words

Matt Tanguay
Enterprise High School
Warren Woods Public Schools

This presentation focuses on how to use photography and other visual mediums to enhance students' writing skills.

Love and Logic in the Classroom

Gloria Sherman
Lapeer Community Schools

Love and Logic focuses on helping students be responsible, taking ownership and solving their own problems. You will leave with practical tools you can use immediately. You will be able to handle even the most difficult classroom situations.

When Dating Becomes Dangerous: Disrespect and Violence Between Genders

Lori Mello,
Community Education Coordinator
Kelly Myers, Presentation Specialist
HAVEN

In this tow-part session, the issues of sexual harassment and dating violence will be discussed. The focus will be on the issues of power and control as the common thread that runs through both issues.

Review and Reflections