P1. Improving Math Success: Designing a Curriculum for Math Repeaters
Enhanced math course sections have been developed to improve the quality of instruction and affective characteristics of developmental students. The curriculum in these courses will be demonstrated and participants will be able to practice the math study skills and motivation strategies which have helped improve the success rate of these students. These strategies include understanding why math is different, math learning styles, test anxiety, note-taking, reading the text, completing homework, motivation, anxiety reduction, test-taking skills, and test analysis. Participants will leave with a theoretical understanding of how to improve repeating student math success and practical math study skills techniques along with curriculum strategies to enhance math learning. 

Presenter(s): Paul Nolting, Learning Specialist & Institutional Test Administrator, Manatee Community College

P2. Reading Coaches:  Incorporating Metacognition into Lab Systems

Even in a high-traffic reading lab, where routines and procedures tend to take over, it is possible to address the needs of the individual student.  This workshop imparts a simple, systematic way of bringing one-on-one reading support sessions or “reading coaching” into a lab system, a practice that focuses less on providing students with strategies than on helping them to explore their own strategies metacognitively and change them at will.  Participants will learn powerful tutoring approaches that help students access the metacognitive realm and cultivate their own versions of crucial academic abilities such as meaning-making, critical thinking, and self-management.

Presenter(s): Lyam Thomas Christopher, Reading Learning Specialist, Palm Beach Community College

P3. What Does Your Diversity Game Hand Look Like?
You can't change the cards you were dealt in life, but you can change how you play your hand. What cards are in your hand? Have you ever wondered why some things just "click" for you and other things just drive you up a wall? What makes us different and what can we do about these differences? This presentation will give you an opportunity to find out your "true colors" and learn to celebrate your strengths and weaknesses. You will learn how to embrace and appreciate diversity and how differences can actual help you improve your game hand. Attend this session to explore the cards you were dealt and how to "improve" your hand to help you succeed in the game of life.

Presenter(s): Rebecca Gubitti, Associate Professor, Tallahassee Community College