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Elizabeth Wilson, UNI associate director of educational event planning, (319) 273-6913
Vicki Grimes, UNI Office of Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa —Teachers of all grades and subject areas will have the chance to discover new strategies to help students retain what they read and comprehend at the “Instructional Strategies 2000: Helping Students Learn” conference, in Des Moines, Wednesday, Aug. 2, and Thursday, Aug 3. The conference, at the Hotel Fort Des Moines in downtown Des Moines, is being presented by the Pallischeck Foundation, the University of Northern Iowa Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Iowa Consortium of Educators.
Keynote speakers at the two-day conference will be Judith Irvin and Mary Bigler. Irvin is the editor of “What Current Research Says to the Middle Level Practitioner” and author of “Reading and the Middle School Student: Strategies to Enhance Literacy.” She is a professor at Florida State University.
Bigler will share methods for helping children learn to love reading and become strategic readers. She also will demonstrate how to teach literacy in any subject area, as well as how to use literature in any course.
Registration is $125 for members of sponsoring associations. These associations include: Iowa Reading Association, Iowa Council for the Social Studies, Iowa Writing Project, Iowa Association for Middle Educators, Iowa Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, Geographic Alliance of Iowa and the Iowa Association of Elementary Educators. The registration fee for non-members is $195.
The conference offers one hour of UNI graduate credit. To receive credit, participants attend all conference sessions, including special credit sessions at the end of each conference day.
Irvin's and Bigler's appearances at the conference are made possible through the Frank and Gretchen Pallischeck gift to the UNI Foundation. Their gift has provided visiting speakers for UNI's Department of Curriculum and Instruction since 1979.
For more information, contact the UNI Non-Credit Programs office at 800-782-9519 or (319) 273-6855.
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