by Larry A. Outlaw
Education Director
New Assistant Education Director
The employment of Mike Hughes as Assistant Education Director (see page one) will provide a tremendous boost to the Commission's education and licensing examination programs. Having this additional staff member will enable the Commission not only to more effectively administer its existing programs but also to expand its educational activities.
With regard to education-related activities, Mike will have primary responsibility for (1) the certification, training and development of prelicensing course instructors, and (2) the development of course syllabi and other instructional aids for instructors. In general, Mike will strive to provide greater assistance and guidance to instructors in an effort to improve the overall quality of instruction provided in pre-licensing courses.
With regard to examinationrelated activities, Mike will be primarily responsible for various administrative functions such as coordinating and supervising examination review sessions, supervising the proluction and distribution of examination materials, and liaison with examination center supervisors. He will also assist in the development and review of examination questions.
In addition, Mike will be responsible for ' handling inquiries regarding license qualification requirements, conducting research, and other general tasks associated with the education and examination programs.
Examination Update
The previous issue of the Real Estate Bulletin contained a complete summary of the Commission's new license examination program and the anticipated benefits of such program. After four months of experience with the new program, I can report that the Commission is extremely wellpleased with the entire operation. All of the expected benefits of the new program are being fully realized.
Two changes in the examination program are being made which will further benefit examination candidates. Examination review sessions for failing candidates are being moved from the Commission Office to the Jane S. McKimmon Continuing Education Center across from the N.C. State University Campus in Raleigh ' This change will enable the Commission to better accommodate failing candidates wishing to review their examinations. In addition, the Commission is reopening the Fayetteville Examination Center at Fayetteville State University beginning with the May examinations.
Instructor Workshop
The Real Estate Commission's 5th Annual Real Estate Instructor Workshop was held in Raleigh on April 3-4, 1984 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the North Carolina Real Estate Educators Association (NCREEA). More than 120 real estate instructors and program directors participated in Workshop sessions on a variety of education-related topics, including:
Pre-Licensing Education Program Changes
Learning Styles, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Memory Enhancement
Left Brain/Right Brain Learning Styles
Computers in the Classroom
Performance and Problem Topics on the New Licensing Examinations The keynote address at the Workshop was given by John Kortecamp, Vice President for Education of the National Association of REALTORS (NAR), who spoke on national trends in real estate education and NAR educational programs.
At its business session, the NCREEA elected as its President for 1984-85 Alan "Mac" Harris, a Greenville real estate broker and real estate instructor at Pitt Community College.