McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, in collaboration with California State University and California Community Colleges, brought together teachers, administrators and educational partners to discuss strategies to accelerate learning in developmental education through innovation at the company's first Developmental Education Summit held in Monterey last week.
At the event, keynote speaker Dr. Hunter R. Boylan, director of the National Center for Developmental Education and a professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University, discussed the principles of developmental education, setting the stage for a series of workshops that focused on bringing administrators and instructors together. Workshop attendees explored strategies for assessing each student's developmental needs and facilitating learning. Additional workshops focused on improving developmental reading, writing and math programs. During the breakout sessions, attendees focused on how technology and data-driven instruction could be incorporated into the classroom to individualise instruction and drive student success.
To support developmental education programmes, McGraw-Hill plans to expand the Developmental Education Summit to a series of collaborative events throughout the US. According to Ed Stanford, president, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, expanding the Developmental Education Summit into a series of workshops will provide a forum for educators, administrators and content providers to work together to develop solutions for challenges teachers and students are facing every day.
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