Dr. Madlon T. Laster did her undergraduate work at Maryville College in Tennessee (1956). She taught in Wooster, Ohio and at Community School in Tehran, Iran before working on her Masters (1967) at George Peabody College for Teachers, now part of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, while teaching in the Nashville-Davidson County School System. She and her husband lived in Beirut, Lebanon from 1967-1973, during which time she taught methods courses, a children’s literature course, and supervised student teachers at Beirut College for Women, now Lebanese American University. She completed her forty-two year teaching career in Winchester City Schools, Winchester, Virginia, in the city’s middle school, and earned her Ph.D. from George Mason University (1996). Her certificate in cognitive instruction (1987) was earned through Radford University in Virginia.
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Dr. Laster spent her career with the practical, or applied side, of instruction rather than publishing. She presented workshops in Zahle, Lebanon, and traveled with Dr. Julinda AbuNasr of the B.C.W. faculty to lead workshops on children’s literature and libraries in Cairo, Egypt; Amman, Jordan; AbuDhabi, UAE; and Bahrain. Following the workshops in December, 1985 and January, 1986, Dr. AbuNasr and Dr. Laster collaborated on a book about establishing children’s libraries, which was published in Arabic. She has also made presentations with colleagues at various conferences in Virginia, and faculty workshops in Bristol and Warrenton.
Brain-Based Teaching for All Subjects is her first book. Its companion volume is Teach the Way the Brain Learns: Curriculum Themes Build Neuron Networks.
