DUE WEST, S.C. (courtesy erskine.edu) — Erskine College alumna and Associate Professor of Education Dr. Sarah Little and special education majors Kalea Hamilton, Adrienne Raines, and Reilly Ward made presentations at the annual South Carolina Council for Exceptional Students (CEC) Conference March 1-2 in North Myrtle Beach.
Little’s presentation was called “Putting the Fun in Executive Functioning.” She reviewed such key “executive functioning skills” as emotional control, planning and prioritizing, and goal-directed persistence; identified “areas of the classroom and within the school day” where deficits in such skills adversely affect students; and advocated use of popular board and card games “to teach and reinforce these skills.”
The Erskine students made up three of the 19 student presenters at the CEC conference.
Sophomore Adrienne Raines’ presentation was “More than a Checklist: Building Executive Function Skills for Post-High School Success.”
Juniors Kalea Hamilton and Reilly Ward gave a joint presentation, “Beyond Basic Accommodations: Overcoming Processing Challenges in the Classroom.”
“The conference was great,” says Kalea. “We learned a lot about different topics in education and how to be better advocates for our students. The conference offered a ton of resources to us and networking opportunities as well.”
After the presentations at the conference, Little explains, “students participated in ‘speed interviews’ with districts across the state.” She notes that Erskine’s attendees have “already planned visits with some of these schools during spring break.”
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