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Interested in an in-service by Kathy Hopkins, Ed.D,  on Teaching How to Learn in a What-to-Learn Culture?  This in-service is appropriate for school faculties, educational and home school organizations, or any professional development opportunities.  Please contact timewing@nild.edu for details.

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Kathy Hopkins, NILD Executive Director, gave the keynote address to open the joint conference between Alpha to Omega Learning Centre and The National Institute for Learning Development in Chennai, India on December 2, 2011.  The conference continued on December 3rd when Dr. Hopkins presented two additional topics to the conference delegates. The Alpha to Omega Learning Centre  incorporates  NILD educational therapy in the school’s curriculum and NILD Level I training was offered to the delegates after the conference.

 

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Review:   Teaching How to Learn in a What-to-Learn Culture

 

Kathleen Hopkins has written a book so satisfying to the mind of this educational therapist that I find myself quoting it to every colleague I encounter.  Shedding the old taboos against teachers disclosing their life stories, Hopkins shares with exquisite prose her personal obstacles and influences that molded the remarkable educator she has become. Weaving together theory, life lessons, and practice, she provides ways of thinking that “embolden both the teacher and the learner to think differently.”  She brings the reader the very notions that have been fundamentals in my own practice for years— “the joy of really teaching students, not just content”; such ideas as “searching for each learner’s individual gifts,” reaching for their “skylights” that transcend all that they have been taught; learning from real life situations, beyond memorization into dynamic discovery of ideas; modeling a love of learning for it’s own sake.  These are indeed the blueprints for real learning to take place.

 

Anyone, in any field, who has ever tried to teach anything to others can benefit by the perspective of this profound book--so revolutionary in the power of its wisdom and the readability of its text.

 

Dorothy Ungerleider, MA, BCET

Founding President, Association of Educational Therapists