2025 Symposiums

Which mindset do you have? How does your mindset impact your instruction? How can you change your mindset? Why do I want a growth mindset? Find out these answers and ways to teach students to have a growth mindset. There are a lot of honest and reflective questions that go into perceiving and building a strong growth mindset. In this presentation we will focus on the process that leads to learning and trying new ways to believe that our intelligence can be developed. There will be an activity that promotes independent thinking, critical thinking, and differentiation. Come join this hands-on experience! 

Come and learn test-taking strategies to share with your students and tips for teaching each subject on the HiSET® test.  This will be an interactive presentation, and you will receive a folder of handouts to take home.  You will also have access to PDF files afterward.  These methods are used by the Oklahoma City Community College Adult Learning Center which graduated over 300 HiSET® students last school year.

Susan Bernard is the High School Equivalency Coordinator of the Oklahoma City Community College and an author and publisher of HiSET® and GED materials. It has been her pleasure for over 20 years to lead students out of fear and into success.

If you teach English to speakers of other languages, come and learn some activities and tips. This will be an interactive presentation, and you will briefly practice each technique. You’ll also receive a handout to take home. Activities for one-on-one tutors, face-to-face teachers, and online teachers will be included.

As well as an ESL teacher at Oklahoma City Community College, Susan Reynolds is the curriculum director for the Language Learning Fellowship at Northwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. She has a masters in Adult Education and is certified in ESL for K-12. She teaches English classes and also is a teacher trainer.