NEW DIRECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION INADE Annual Conference OCTOBER 25-26, 2012 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Rebecca Goosen, NADE President-elect National Association for Developmental Education
Pipeline Critical Points Age 0-5 Start School Ready to Succeed Age 6-10 Read Proficiently by Grade 4 Age Middle School Success/ Transition Age Graduate High School On Time Age Ready for College, Work, Life
Silver Bullet Theory No Silver Bullet- A Lot of Silver Buckshot
What is New? Acceleration Integrated Reading/Writing Emporium Style Classes Gateway Classes with Supplemental instruction Diagnostic assessments Co-requisite enrollment Alignment of high schools and college
Tale of Woe Connecticut's New Policy for Developmental Education No Remediation in higher education Lower students are sent to a self passed computer modular program (ABE Programs) Align high school and college to not have the need for developmental students.
Urgency is Upon Us Change Cycle has Accelerated Legislators think in 2 to 4 year cycles Technology is reducing the size of the world Third World Job Shifts
Why do some students succeed when others from similar backgrounds do not?
What is Developmental Education? Developmental Education is the integration of academic courses and support services guided by the principles of adult and developmental learning Boylan, 2000
A Developmental Education System
What can we do as Developmental Education practitioners? Community Intervention Early School Intervention Institutional Level Intervention Wider Scope of Intervention
Be a lion not a lamb