Joye
Norris
Joye is a Senior Associate with Global
Learning Partners. She has been deeply involved in teaching and learning for most
of her career. Joye received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University
of Kentucky, and her doctorate in Counselor Education at North Carolina State
University. She has combined her counseling background with adult education and
is as interested in growing people as in teaching them.
From 1988
- 1995, Joye worked with a community college and coordinated a federally funded
literacy program for homeless adults in Raleigh, NC, co-authoring the first book
on the subject (Developing Literacy Programs for Homeless Adults, Krieger Publishing).
During that time, she had the opportunity to study with Dr. Jane Vella, adult
educator, author and an internationally recognized proponent and practitioner
of teaching through dialogue. That experience served as the catalyst for Joye's
work with adult educators in dozens of states, each of them seeking to design
for learning rather than to cover content. She has provided extensive training
for Cooperative Extension and WIC nutrition education programs, most recently
in Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
California and New York. In 1998, she co-authored Maximizing Paraprofessional
Potential and is one of the few trainers offering programming specific to paraprofessionals.
She consults with and provides training for such diverse organizations as the
Women's Initiative for Self Employment in San Francisco, Mountain Microenterprise
Fund in Asheville, NC, and the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) in
New York City.
In addition to consulting and training, Joye serves as a
co-designer with organizations that want to develop interactive, dialogue-rich
curricula for their staff and adult clients. She just completed projects with
the University of Massachusetts, the University of Maryland, and is currently
working with Cornell University Cooperative Extension to help them revise their
paraprofessional training.
Joye resides in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
where she recently opened the Suncoast Adult Learning Center. At the center, she
teaches individuals and small groups who are interested in designing with dialogue
and becoming training facilitators. Her latest book, From Telling to Teaching,
was published in July 2003.
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