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Campus THE RAMBLER | www.therambler.org September 22, 2010 | 3 ing 121 of those 2009-2010 freshmen returned for the 2010-2011 academic school year. With the influx of new students, housing on cam- pus has also seen an in- crease, now at 88 percent capacity, with only 35 spots remaining among all three residence halls. Overall numbers, includ- ing the Texas Wesleyan School of Law and the Joint High School Enrollment program rose. The overall head count climbed from 3333 to 3378. her first phase of research concerning Latina admin- istrators, Robles-Goodwin said she hopes to start the second phase, in which she will visit other regions of Texas. “In this Latina research, I really wanted to capture their experiences because there’s very few of them,” Robles-Goodwin said. “I wanted to see if there was a difference in Latina admin- istrators if I went to a differ- ent part of Texas.” When she’s not teaching or conducting research, Ro- bles-Goodwin gets involved with the community. She is currently a part of the Ki- wanis in Fort Worth, a ser- vice-based group that guides young children. “A lot of students think all we do is teach, but we don’t,” Robles-Goodwin said. “Teach is just one-third of what we do. One of the other thirds is we have to do a lot of service with the commu- nity. at’s what I love about Kiwanis. Kiwanis is all about helping kids.” ENROLLMENT continued from page 1 ESL continued from page 1 Math teacher takes sensory approach Melissa Bates [email protected] Lisa Scott, developmental math instructor, loves to teach. Scott has taught at Wesleyan for three years but has taught math for a total of 14 years. “I taught high school for five years, then I was a stay at home mom 12 years to raise my three boys,” Scott said. “High school teaching is much harder than college teaching. I also spent about 10 years tutoring out of my house.” Scott said she understands that math does not come easily to a lot of students. She realizes that most stu- dents are sensory learners, they have to learn by three of the five senses: visual, auditory and touch. “Aſter working with kids indi- vidually for so long, I think they all have kind of the same problem with math,” Scott said. “Most kids that struggle with math, it’s because they’re visual learners. Algebra is not something most teachers teach as vi- sual. It’s just—here’s a series of steps, just do them.” Scott developed methods that help sensory learners while she was an at-home tutor. e methods have shown positive results. “She’s really interactive in her teaching,” said Ray Cox, senior crim- inal justice major. “[She’s] very hands on and understanding that not all of us are giſted in math. She has a spe- cial talent at helping you understand the different math problems.” Scott said she tries to cover ev- ery type of learning style every day, while also leaving time for hands-on work with the students. “I think that’s what makes it suc- cessful,” Scott said. “In developmen- tal math, each student has different issues, so I try to take the time to ad- dress each person individually.” Melody Bell-Fowler, student sup- port programs and services director, said when she first interviewed Scott, she liked the way Scott talked about math and understood the struggles students go through. “I have students that will come to me begging for me to sign an over- ride so they can have her,” Fowler said. “But our classrooms are not large enough. It also wouldn’t be fair to her because she would not be able to give the personal atten- tion that she so loves to do. I have had students tell me, ‘I never under- stood math until Mrs. Scott taught me.’” Giovanni Monsanto, sophomore political science and criminal justice double major, said paying attention in Scott’s class is key, everything else follows suit. “She’s very good at explaining the processes of the formulas to where it’s broken down simple enough for the class, as a whole, to understand,” he said. Scott said she loves Wesleyan be- cause she is able to take the time nec- essary with each individual student. Wesleyan enabled her to rework the course so that everyone understands the concepts of the course before the class moves on to the next topic, she said. Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler Staff Instructor Lisa Scott helps two of her developmental math students, LaDedrick Minnifield (L), liberal studies major, and Derrick Roussell (R), exercise science major, with math exercises during class. Texas Wesleyan Presents • September 26 at 10:30 a.m. • October 1 at 7:30 p.m. Wesleyan Sunday Fall President’s Council Kickoff and Music Scholarship Benefit Concert Polytechnic United Methodist Church Martin Hall For more information, visit The Music Department at http://www.txwes.edu/music/ music/index.htm or call 817.531.4992 • October 8 at 7:30 p.m. Guitar Fort Worth: Classical Series @ Wesleyan Martin Hall Religious Life at Texas Wesleyan Live music with brief time of worship Tuesdays at 12:15 in PUMC Chapel Free lunch after on PUMC 3rd Floor – Room 312 Free lunch and discussion/dialogue Thursdays at 12:15 in PUMC Chapel PUMC 3rd Floor – Room 312 “Faith seeking understanding” – ALL are welcome! For info: http://www.txwes.edu/religiouslife/index.htm University Chapel: Common Meal: However you want to study, we have a place for you. West Library Hours: Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Group Individually 817-336-HANG • www.hangmans.com Student Nights! September 24 & 25 Extra $1-Off COMBO Ticket with Student I.D. h a p p y h o r r o r d a y s Open Every Fri & Sat, Sept 17-Oct 30 Plus Sundays Oct 24 & 31 And Wed-Thurs Oct 27-28 7 pm til 12 am Fri’s & Sat’s til 10 pm all other nights I-30 & Forest Park Blvd One mile west of downtown Fort Worth Jessica Gillotte Daily Californian, U. California- Berkeley via UWIRE A drug currently used to lessen the effects of Alzheim- er’s disease may soon be able to aid healthy adults in per- ceptual learning, according to a study by U. California- Berkeley researchers. In the study, published Sept. 16 in the science journal Current Biology, UC Berke- ley researchers Michael Sil- ver and Ariel Rokem found a link between the use of the Alzheimer’s drug donepezil and improved attention and memory in adults not affect- ed by the disease while the subjects performed a specific task. Donepezil, a drug oſten prescribed to Alzheimer’s pa- tients, raises the level of one of the brain’s signaling mol- ecules – called acetylcholine – by destroying the enzyme that inhibits its longevity. “Acetylcholine is involved in many different processes in the brain including volun- tarily devoting focused atten- tion to a particular portion of the visual field when you know something important might appear in that loca- tion,” Rokem, a postdoctoral fellow at the campus Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and lead author of the study, said in an e-mail. Twelve subjects partici- pated in the study, which had them take a 5-milligram dose of the drug during the first round of five-day courses and a placebo during the second round about two weeks later. Aſter each round of courses, the subjects took a test that measured perceptual learning by reporting whether two se- quentially presented fields of moving dots were proceeding in the same direction. “Perceptual learning is the ability to get better at a par- ticular perceptual discrimi- nation with practice,” Silver, an assistant professor at the School of Optometry and the Helen Wills Neurosci- ence Institute and the study’s principle investigator, said in an e-mail. “With practice, anyone can improve their ability for a given perceptual discrimination, but in our experiments, subjects taking donepezil during practice show about twice as much improvement in perceptual ability compared to subjects practicing under placebo.” Silver noted that the study only revealed an improve- ment in attention in the specific task that the sub- jects were given, and more research is needed to de- termine whether the drug would enhance performance in other tasks. “One analogy is a fruit in- spector who becomes very good at discriminating small differences in the colors of red apples,” Silver said in the e-mail. “is perceptual learning for color discrimi- nation of red may not gener- alize to discriminating colors of green apples.” Although the effects of donepezil are very beneficial to specific tasks involving vi- sual perception, Silver notes that “it is far too early to say how donepezil may be used in the general population in the future.” According to Aaron Seitz, UC Riverside assistant pro- fessor of psychology, this is the first study to make a di- rect link between acetylcho- line and visual perceptual learning in humans. “is research shows promise,” he said in an e- mail. Read more here: http:// www.dailycal.org/arti- cle/110398/alzheimer_s_ drug_may_enhance_learn- ing. Copyright 2010 Daily Califor- nian Alzheimer’s drug may enhance learning “ In our experiments, subjects taking donepezil during practice show about twice as much improvement in percep- tual ability compared to subjects prac- ticing under placebo. ” Michael Silver assistant professor, School of Optometry and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
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CampusThe RambleR | www.therambler.org September 22, 2010 | 3
ing 121 of those 2009-2010 freshmen returned for the 2010-2011 academic school year.
With the influx of new students, housing on cam-pus has also seen an in-crease, now at 88 percent capacity, with only 35 spots
remaining among all three residence halls.
Overall numbers, includ-ing the Texas Wesleyan School of Law and the Joint High School Enrollment program rose. The overall head count climbed from 3333 to 3378.
her first phase of research concerning Latina admin-istrators, Robles-Goodwin said she hopes to start the second phase, in which she will visit other regions of Texas.
“In this Latina research, I really wanted to capture their experiences because there’s very few of them,” Robles-Goodwin said. “I wanted to see if there was a difference in Latina admin-istrators if I went to a differ-ent part of Texas.”
When she’s not teaching
or conducting research, Ro-bles-Goodwin gets involved with the community. She is currently a part of the Ki-wanis in Fort Worth, a ser-vice-based group that guides young children.
“A lot of students think all we do is teach, but we don’t,” Robles-Goodwin said. “Teach is just one-third of what we do. One of the other thirds is we have to do a lot of service with the commu-nity. That’s what I love about Kiwanis. Kiwanis is all about helping kids.”
ENROLLMENT continued from page 1
ESL continued from page 1
Math teacher takes sensory approachMelissa [email protected]
Lisa Scott, developmental math instructor, loves to teach.
Scott has taught at Wesleyan for three years but has taught math for a total of 14 years.
“I taught high school for five years, then I was a stay at home mom 12 years to raise my three boys,” Scott said. “High school teaching is much harder than college teaching. I also spent about 10 years tutoring out of my house.”
Scott said she understands that math does not come easily to a lot of students. She realizes that most stu-dents are sensory learners, they have to learn by three of the five senses: visual, auditory and touch.
“After working with kids indi-vidually for so long, I think they all have kind of the same problem with math,” Scott said. “Most kids that struggle with math, it’s because they’re visual learners. Algebra is not something most teachers teach as vi-sual. It’s just—here’s a series of steps, just do them.”
Scott developed methods that help sensory learners while she was an at-home tutor. The methods have shown positive results.
“She’s really interactive in her
teaching,” said Ray Cox, senior crim-inal justice major. “[She’s] very hands on and understanding that not all of us are gifted in math. She has a spe-cial talent at helping you understand
the different math problems.”Scott said she tries to cover ev-
ery type of learning style every day, while also leaving time for hands-on work with the students.
“I think that’s what makes it suc-cessful,” Scott said. “In developmen-tal math, each student has different issues, so I try to take the time to ad-dress each person individually.”
Melody Bell-Fowler, student sup-port programs and services director, said when she first interviewed Scott, she liked the way Scott talked about math and understood the struggles students go through.
“I have students that will come to me begging for me to sign an over-ride so they can have her,” Fowler said. “But our classrooms are not large enough. It also wouldn’t be fair to her because she would not be able to give the personal atten-tion that she so loves to do. I have had students tell me, ‘I never under-stood math until Mrs. Scott taught me.’”
Giovanni Monsanto, sophomore political science and criminal justice double major, said paying attention in Scott’s class is key, everything else follows suit.
“She’s very good at explaining the processes of the formulas to where it’s broken down simple enough for the class, as a whole, to understand,” he said.
Scott said she loves Wesleyan be-cause she is able to take the time nec-essary with each individual student. Wesleyan enabled her to rework the course so that everyone understands the concepts of the course before the class moves on to the next topic, she said.
Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffInstructor Lisa Scott helps two of her developmental math students, LaDedrick Minnifield (L), liberal studies major, and Derrick Roussell (R), exercise science major, with math exercises during class.
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music/index.htm or call 817.531.4992
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Religious Life at Texas Wesleyan
Live music with brief time of worship Tuesdays at 12:15 in PUMC Chapel Free lunch after on PUMC 3rd Floor – Room 312
Free lunch and discussion/dialogue Thursdays at 12:15 in PUMC Chapel PUMC 3rd Floor – Room 312
“Faith seeking understanding” – ALL are welcome!
For info: http://www.txwes.edu/religiouslife/index.htm
University Chapel:
Common Meal:
However you want to study, we have a place for you.
West Library Hours:Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Sunday 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Group Individually817-336-HANG • www.hangmans.com
Student Nights!September 24 & 25
Extra $1-Off COMBO Ticket with Student I.D.
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Open Every Fri & Sat, Sept 17-Oct 30
Plus Sundays Oct 24 & 31And Wed-Thurs Oct 27-28
7 pm til 12 am Fri’s & Sat’s til 10 pm all other nights
I-30 & Forest Park BlvdOne mile west of
downtown Fort Worth
Jessica GillotteDaily Californian, U. California-Berkeley via UWIRE
A drug currently used to lessen the effects of Alzheim-er’s disease may soon be able to aid healthy adults in per-ceptual learning, according to a study by U. California-Berkeley researchers.
In the study, published Sept. 16 in the science journal Current Biology, UC Berke-ley researchers Michael Sil-ver and Ariel Rokem found a link between the use of the Alzheimer’s drug donepezil and improved attention and memory in adults not affect-ed by the disease while the subjects performed a specific task.
Donepezil, a drug often prescribed to Alzheimer’s pa-
tients, raises the level of one of the brain’s signaling mol-ecules – called acetylcholine – by destroying the enzyme that inhibits its longevity.
“Acetylcholine is involved in many different processes in the brain including volun-tarily devoting focused atten-tion to a particular portion of the visual field when you know something important might appear in that loca-tion,” Rokem, a postdoctoral fellow at the campus Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and lead author of the study, said in an e-mail.
Twelve subjects partici-pated in the study, which had them take a 5-milligram dose of the drug during the first round of five-day courses and a placebo during the second round about two weeks later.
After each round of courses, the subjects took a test that measured perceptual learning by reporting whether two se-quentially presented fields of moving dots were proceeding in the same direction.
“Perceptual learning is the ability to get better at a par-ticular perceptual discrimi-
nation with practice,” Silver, an assistant professor at the School of Optometry and the Helen Wills Neurosci-ence Institute and the study’s principle investigator, said in an e-mail. “With practice, anyone can improve their ability for a given perceptual discrimination, but in our
experiments, subjects taking donepezil during practice show about twice as much improvement in perceptual ability compared to subjects practicing under placebo.”
Silver noted that the study only revealed an improve-ment in attention in the specific task that the sub-jects were given, and more research is needed to de-termine whether the drug would enhance performance in other tasks.
“One analogy is a fruit in-spector who becomes very good at discriminating small differences in the colors of red apples,” Silver said in the e-mail. “This perceptual learning for color discrimi-nation of red may not gener-alize to discriminating colors of green apples.”
Although the effects of donepezil are very beneficial to specific tasks involving vi-sual perception, Silver notes that “it is far too early to say how donepezil may be used in the general population in the future.”
According to Aaron Seitz, UC Riverside assistant pro-fessor of psychology, this is the first study to make a di-rect link between acetylcho-line and visual perceptual learning in humans.
“This research shows promise,” he said in an e-mail.
Read more here: http://w w w. d a i l y c a l . o r g / a r t i -cle/110398/alzheimer_s_drug_may_enhance_learn-ing.Copyright 2010 Daily Califor-nian
Alzheimer’s drug may enhance learning“In our experiments, subjects taking donepezil during practice show about twice as much improvement in percep-tual ability compared to subjects prac-ticing under placebo.”
Michael Silverassistant professor, School of Optometry
and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
