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The National Institute for
Learning Development

builds the competence and confidence of those who struggle to learn by training educators and developing programs

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2010-2011 Conference Handouts

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Interested in doing research for NILD? Contact Kathy Hopkins kathyhopkins@nild.edu

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•NILD is an Authorized Training Center, affiliated with the International Center for Enhancement of Learning Potential, www.icelp.org

The Feuerstein Institute has greatly influenced and contributed to the work of the National Institute for Learning Development (NILD) in the USA since 1993.

 

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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

 

News and Upcoming Events

 

2011-2012 MEMBERSHIP FORM

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NILD PRESENTS ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE AGENDA AND REGISTRATION

OUR EARLY BIRD WINNER IS MARILYN BROWER FROM JENISON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN JENISON, MICHIGAN

  Marilyn receives a free course registration for any 2012 summer course.  CONGRATULATIONS MARILYN!!!

 

There will be 6 Keynote Speakers at this conference:

Dr. Louisa Moats

Dr. Maryanne Wolf

Dr. Kathy Hopkins

Dr. Ned Hallowell

Dr. Milt Uecker

Dr. Nancy Mather

 

NILD is honored to announce that Dr. Louisa Moats and Dr. Maryanne Wolf will be two of the keynote speakers at the NILD 30th Anniversary Conference!  Both educators are widely acclaimed as researchers, speakers, consultants and trainers.

Louisa Moats, Ed.D. is a nationally recognized authority on how children learn to read and why they fail to learn to read.  She is the author of Speech to Print.

Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D. is the editor of Dyslexia, Fluency and the Brain and has published numerous articles and books on reading and learning disabilities.

 

See you in sunny Orlando, Florida on February 15, 16, and 17th! 

 

Location-Wyndham Orlando Resort

BECOME AN NILD 2011-2012 MEMBER AND SAVE ON THE CONFERENCE  REGISTRATION. BRING A FIRST TIME NILD CONFERENCE ATTENDEE AND SAVE ON CONFERENCE REGISTRATION.

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2012 Course offerings are now listed on our COURSES page.

There will be an early bird discount  of $75 off course registration fee for all summer courses if registered by January 31st.

 

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EDUCATIONAL THERAPY IN ACTION: Behind and Beyond the Office Door
 “What does an educational therapist DO?”  This book exposes in actual time,  the “what,” “how” and, critically--the “why” of the clinical process:
 the treatment alliance, range of  interventions, an “Organic Curriculum,” and each outcome over time.

 

 

 

 

 


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