Conference Announcement and Call for Presentations
February 21-24, 1996
Tucson, Arizona
The University of Arizona Extended University
This conference won't be a long series of lectures, but involvements that
will help you exercise creative behaviors. What's more, you can see how
to carry them back with you into your life and work. Offer something.
Learn something. Yes, you can do it!
Get ready for this exciting conference on creativity and the practical
ways to improve the way you learn and teach. Unlock your creativity in a
safe environment! Find out about applying all of your multiple
intelligences each day. Release the energy bound up in the people of your
organization or school.
Hear from others who have made quantum leaps in teaching and learning.
See the payoffs for your school, business or organization that result from
becoming a "learning organization" where people embrace learning because
they are ready for the present and the future of dynamic change. Think in
different ways! Take risks. Understand how whole brain learning can
revolutionize our notions of the best ways to learn and keep learning.
Conference Threads
Learning organizations
Conscious learning
Multiple Intelligence/Skills for teaching (K-12 and college)
Learning environments
Interactive learning
Creative living
Systems Thinking
Join us!
Offer a workshop, demonstration or poster presentation
Send a one page proposal by October 1, 1995. Describe the learning
objectives, the style of presentation and your background or
qualifications. Please send to address below, or e-mail to
jlaukes@ccit.arizona.edu. We'll respond to all proposals by October 15.
For further information,
please contact:
Jim Laukes
The University of Arizona Extended University
1955 East Sixth Street
Tucson, AZ 85721
internet: jlaukes@ccit.arizona.edu
phone: 520-621-8632, extension 253 fax: 520-621-3269
Keynote Presenters (current as of August 1, 1995)
Pierce J. Howard and Jane Mitchell Howard
Founders of the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies, their work bridges
the gap between the findings of neuropsychological research and their
application for teachers and trainers. Pierce Howard is the author of The
Owner's Manual for the Brain. In addition to workshops on tapping
creativity during the main conference, they will present an intensive
pre-conference certification workshop on applying the Five Factor Model of
personality to education, as featured in the September, 1995 issue of
Training and Development.
Geoffrey Caine
Specialist in the theory and practice of Brain Based learning and
teaching, and co-author of Making Connections: Teaching and the Human
Brain, and Mindshifts, A Brain-Based Process for Restructuring Schools and
Renewing Education. He is also Director of the Mind/Brain Network of
ASTD.
Todd Siler
Artist and scientist who focuses on "connectivity" to magnify people's
ability to absorb, critically analyse and undestand information. Author
of Breaking the Mind Barrier.
Marilyn Schoeman Dow
President of the American Creativity Association, and author of The Idea
Generator. Will offer current developments in bringing creativitity into
practical use in many learning settings.
-- jlaukes@ccit.arizona.edu