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Professor Nails-Porter has been in developmental education for over 20 years. She received her bachelor's degree in sociology from Morris Brown College and her master's degree in education (curriculum) from Clark-Atlanta University, both in Atlanta, Georgia. Since that time, she has taken some doctoral courses at the University of Florida.Along with these learning experiences, she has had many opportunities to demonstrate her abilities with various positions in the field of education. In the classroom, she has served as both a fulltime and adjunct reading instructor. As an administrator, she has served as a grants coordinator, director of the reading laboratory, area coordinator of reading, surrogate division chairperson, general education program planner, coordinator of the Global Villages Program, and B-CU Learning Communities Director. Presently, she is a fulltime reading faculty member at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, FL. |
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Professor Karin Alderfer has taught at Miami Dade College for 26 years. In addition to reading, she has taught Student Development and Introduction to Education. Prior to her tenure at MDC, Karin was a Reading Resource Specialist in Maryland public schools. In addition to her M.A. in reading, she has earned an Ed.S. (Educational Specialist) degree in Curriculum and Instruction in Higher Education from Florida Atlantic University.
Karin was admitted to MENSA in 1983 and has maintained membership in the International Reading Association (IRA), National Association of Developmental Education (NADE), Florida Developmental Education Association (FDEA), and has previously served as secretary-treasurer of the Florida College Reading Council (FCRC).
FDEA selected her as the Outstanding Developmental Educator for 2005. Miami Dade College awarded her an Endowed Teaching Chair for 2006-2008. She has made presentations for NADE, FDEA, and FCRC. In addition, she was appointed as a consultant for a League for Innovation in the Community College project called "Basic Education Online"; the purpose of the project is to identify high-quality developmental education courses for the open-content environment. These courses will become freely available for all people around the globe.
Her philosophy of learning is: "Every student can learn with the proper motivation mixed with hard work. The main purpose of education is to enable one to live a productive, enjoyable life that contributes to the lives of others."
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Patti Levine-Brown is a professor of Communications at Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ). She received her bachelors and masters degrees from the University of North Florida. She has completed beginning and advanced programs in developmental education through the Kellogg Institute at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and currently is pursuing an Ed.S in developmental education at ASU. Additionally, she has completed coursework in the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Patti is both a Paideia and Cooperative Learning trainer. She received her Paideia training through both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Paideia Group, Inc. She completed Cooperative Learning training with Roger and David Johnson through the University of Minnesota.
She began teaching developmental reading classes at Florida State College in 1983 and became a full time English and reading instructor in Adult Studies in 1990. In 1996 she moved into the department of communications teaching developmental reading and English as well as composition and literature.
She has published three books with Prentice Hall and is a contributing author to Susan Anker's Real Writing with Readings and Real Skills with Readings, and John Biays and Carol Wershoven's Along These Lines, Florida Exit Test Edition. She is also part of a team of faculty who developed a reading course through the SIRIUS Project at Florida State College that is now being marketed nationwide by McGraw-Hill Companies.
An article outlining a research project, completed with her co-worker Jeff Hess, on training for adjuncts who teach developmental education courses was recently published in Research in Developmental Education (RIDE). |
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