The Dialogue on Learning
site was created by Annette Bell, Lisa Ford, and Khaki Wunderlich as a Tompkins
Cortland Community College sabbatical leave project. We welcome comments and
suggestions. In addition, we invite you to join our teaching and learning discussion
group by clicking here or by clicking
on the "Community" button on the navigation bar.
Annette Bell has been teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages for over twenty years, ten of which have been at TC3. Both because of her own travels in over thirty countries and because of working with several thousand international students over the years, she has a passion for multiculturalism and diversity issues. Since the beginning of her teaching career, she has been aware that the environment in a classroom of ESOL students is a key factor in their learning. She learned that making students comfortable and confident was key to their success in improving their language skills.
A concrete result of her sabbatic is a greater awareness of the factors that are necessary to create a learning centered environment, why the environment plays a significant role in learning, and how to actually create a positive learning environment.
Please click here to email Annette: bella@sunytccc.edu
Lisa Ford teaches academic
writing and screenwriting at TC3. Lisa's teaching and creative writing experience,
along with over ten years of coaching in the Odyssey of the Mind program, have
contributed to her interest in the connections between creativity and the construction
of individual meaning. This sabbatical leave project helped her make connections
between the study of creativity and practical applications for the community
college classroom.
Lisa's screenplays
have earned finalist and semifinalist placements in the Austin
Heart of Film Festival, the AMPAS
Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships, and other competitions. Two of her screenplays
have been optioned for production as Canadian television movies. Lisa is a member
of www.screenplayers.net and webmaster
of www.cardblvd.com.
Please click here to email Lisa: fordl@sunytccc.edu
Khaki Wunderlich's training in neurobiology, law, and education came together when she began working with students with disabilities in higher education thirteen years ago. She started searching for ideas to help the students develop alternative, compensating strategies that could improve their success. That desire quickly became a dream that the need to accommodate a disability become a rare occurrence because faculty and institutions recognize that all students possess different sets of strengths and challenges and design learning opportunities that allow access to the broadest possible population. This sabbatical leave project allowed her the luxury of time to integrate ideas and information to better describe practical ways to support the breadth of unique learners in our classrooms and to search out other projects applying universal design concepts to learning.
Khaki is responsible for academic support services at TC3 and teaches probability and statistics when time allows.
Please click here to email
Khaki: wunderk@sunytccc.edu
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support and funding for the development of this site by Tompkins Cortland Community College and by a grant under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act administered by the New York State Education Department.
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