Hello everyone.  I think Julie's questions are excellent for 
beginning the discussion and I am ready to begin.  You can learn a 
bit more about me by clicking here:
http://gse.rutgers.edu/faculty/genFacultyProfileBiography~cguid~{F72274D9-ABAB-4190-8D3C-5333B284B4E5}~ciid~fac_1018.asp



At 10:08 AM 6/26/2006, you wrote:

>Hi Everyone,

>

>I want to welcome our guest this week, Hal Beder, who will join us to

>discuss his

>recent FOB article: "Shaping and Sustaining Learner Engagement in

>Individualized Group Instruction Classrooms".

>

>You can find the article at this link:

>http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=1106

>

>Hal is a professor at Rutgers University and has studied adult literacy

>for more than 30 years. He is the project director for NCSALL at Rutgers

>and for the National Labsite for Adult Literacy Education. We are very

>pleased to have him with us.

>

>I am going to open up the discussion with a few questions for you:

>

>How many of you teach individualized group instruction?

>

>How do  you find that the three factors discussed in the article

>(instructional system, teachers' roles, and classroom norms) affect your

>learners?

>

>What other factors affect your learners' engagement?

>

>I look forward to hearing from you!

>

>Julie

>

>

>

>Julie McKinney

>Discussion List Moderator

>World Education/NCSALL

>jmckinney at worlded.org

>

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