The Georgia Real Estate Commission

presents

2001 Annual School Meeting and Ethics Update

Thursday & Friday, November 29-30, 2001

The University of Georgia
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Athens, Georgia

Notice to Participants

The Georgia Real Estate Commission and the Georgia Real Estate Appraisers Board have approved the Instructors' Ethics Workshop for three (3) hours of continuing education credit for real estate licensees, real estate instructors, and real estate appraisers. There is no registration fee for this workshop. If you are only attending this workshop on Thursday and not the Annual School Meeting on Friday, you MUST still register using the Registration Form for 2001 Annual School Meeting. After the afternoon workshop, the Thursday evening events include a sponsored reception and buffet dinner for $25 payable in advance. Please register early! Seating is limited!

To receive continuing education credit, a participant must be on time and present for the period of instruction offered from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 29, 2001.

The Georgia Real Estate Educators Association (GREEA) is administering this course under a contract with the Commission with funds from the Real Estate Education, Research, and Recovery Fund.

The Georgia Real Estate Commission has approved the 2001 Annual School Meeting for six (6) hours of continuing education credit for prelicense instructors and real estate licensees. The Georgia Real Estate Appraisers Board has approved this meeting for six (6) hours of appraiser continuing education credit. The Commission offers this meeting to real estate and appraiser prelicense instructors, school directors, school coordinators, and other interested school personnel.

Participants must preregister and pay a $25.00 fee for the meeting and lunch by November 20, 2001 (Hotel Registration Deadline: November 16, 2001).

The Commission has provided funding for the 2001 Annual School Meeting from the real estate education, research, and recovery fund through a contract with the Georgia Real Estate Educators Association (GREEA).

To receive credit continuing education credit, a participant MUST be on time and present for the morning general sessions (9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.) and for the afternoon closing session (3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.). To receive credit, each participant MUST also attend one morning breakout session and a separate afternoon breakout session (see the Friday Agenda). Each participant must comply with all registration and attendance procedures established by the Commission and the Board in order to receive credit.

Instructors' Ethics Workshop

Thursday Workshop, November 29, 2001, 1:00-4:30 p.m.

What's Your Ethical IQ? A Workshop for Real Estate Teachers Interested in Teaching Ethics

Join veteran educator and ethics specialist Deborah Long, DREI, in a provocative discussion about real estate agents and their ethical maturity. You will learn how to identify and enhance the ethical reasoning skills of your students while discussing thought-provoking cases, research studies, and psychological theories of moral development. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY! Seating IS LIMITED!

Thursday Agenda, November 29, 2001

GREC 2001 Annual School Meeting & Ethics Update

Friday Agenda, November 30, 2001

*Please note: Hotel check out is 11:00 a.m.

All participants are welcome at the following Georgia Real Estate Educators events:

No recruiting for employment opportunities for any real estate brokerage firm is allowed during the Instructors' Ethics Workshop or during The Annual School Meeting. Promptly report any effort to recruit by anyone to William J. Aaron, Education Advisor, Georgia Real Estate Commission, (404)656-6704.

General Information

The Georgia Center for Continuing Education is a full-service, residential adult-learning facility on the campus of the University of Georgia. A modern 200-bedroom hotel, dining services, conference rooms, auditoriums, library, and computer labs are combined in one smoke-free facility. Hotel rooms offer hair dryers, coffeepots, irons, and ironing boards. Some suites and smoking rooms may be available. A full-service Business Center — complete with computers and printers, Internet and e-mail access, photo-copying and fax services, instructional and office supplies — is available for nominal fees.

If you require special services, facilities, or dietary considerations (vegetarian or otherwise) to support your participation in a Georgia Center program, contact Joseph Allen at 706-542-6638 by November 9, 2001.

Conference Registration:
Registration is limited. Complete and mail the registration form, or you may use a fax, phone, or online option (see registration form). Prepayment is required to be registered.

Lodging:
A block of rooms is being held for your conference until 5 p.m. ET, Friday, November 16, 2001. Indicate lodging preference on the registration form. If your choice is unavailable, the best alternative will be confirmed. If lodging at the Georgia Center is unavailable, we will arrange for your accommodations at a local hotel; room rates vary. A credit card is required to guarantee your reservation at the Georgia Center and local hotels. Your card will be charged one night's lodging if you do not cancel by 4:00 p.m. 24 hours prior to your arrival date. Check-in time is 4:00 p.m, and check-out time is 11:00 a.m.

Transportation:
All flights into Athens connect through Charlotte, NC. Regular ground transportation is available from Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport to the Georgia Center. A map, parking information, and further details will be mailed to you with your conference confirmation. Directions may also be found at www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/about/directions.phtml. A parking deck is located adjacent to the Center. Vans and other vehicles over seven feet tall cannot fit in the deck, but arrangements can be made for alternative parking.

Cancellation Policies:
(1) The Georgia Center will gladly issue full refunds for cancellations made by 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 21, 2001. No refunds will be issued thereafter. Substitutions are encouraged. (2) In the event a program is cancelled for any reason, the Georgia Center will not be responsible for any cancellation changes/charges assessed by airlines or travel agencies.

Deborah H. Long, DREI, CRS, Ed.D.

Deborah Long is a licensed real estate instructor in North and South Carolina, Missouri, Indiana, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Illinois, Maine, Alaska, and Kentucky. She completed her doctorate in educational leadership in 1994. Her research on the effect of ethics instruction on the ethical reasoning of real estate practitioners received national media and industry attention. In addition to holding GRI (Graduate Realtor Institute) and CRS (Certified Residential Specialist) designations, Deborah is also a DREI (Distinguished Real Estate Instructor). She is also a distinguished lecturer in ethics for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Josephson Institute of Ethics has certified Deborah as an ethics trainer.

Teaching Ethics: It's Not a Question of Why, but How?
A Question-and-Answer Program with Deborah Long, featuring Tripp Anderson

Deborah Long will host a question-and-answer session on effective strategies for teaching ethics. Deborah will review the Best Practices of Ethics Education and the latest research on real estate ethics. Get answers to your questions about the new NAR ethics course as well as integrating ethics into your prelicense course curriculum. Georgia educator Tripp Anderson will share his best case studies and other teaching tips.

Lights, Camera, Action! Movies and TV Clips in the Real Estate Classroom

Join former cinema teacher, Deborah Long, in a fun-filled matinee performance about visual learners and how they love to learn. Deborah will bring clips from her favorite movies and TV shows and discuss their appropriate and lawful use in the real estate classroom

Tripp Anderson, ABR, CBR, DREI, GRI, ITI Certified

Tripp Anderson received his license while a student at Georgia State University where he majored in real estate. Later he pursued his Master's of Business Administration degree in Management. He worked for the Georgia Real Estate Commission serving as its Education Advisor. He served as the Director for the Georgia Institute of Real Estate, where he still instructs prelicense, postlicense, and continuing education courses. As an educator, Tripp earned the Real Estate Educators Distinguished Real Estate Educator designation in 1997 and he was certified by the Instructor Training Institute under the National Association of REALTORS(R) in October of 2000.

Teaching Ethics: It's Not a Question of Why, but How?
A Question-and-Answer Program with Deborah Long, featuring Tripp Anderson

Deborah Long will host a question-and-answer session on effective strategies for teaching ethics. Deborah will review the Best Practices of Ethics Education and the latest research on real estate ethics. Get answers to your questions about the new NAR ethics course as well as integrating ethics into your prelicense course curriculum. Georgia educator Tripp Anderson will share his best case studies and other teaching tips.

Lawrence J. Fabrey, Ph.D.

Since January 1989, Lawrence J. Fabrey has been with Applied Measurement Professionals, a national testing company located in suburban Kansas City in Lenexa, Kansas. Larry is currently Vice President for Measurement Research, and serves as the project director for AMP's Real Estate Examination Program, as well as other certification and licensure programs. Larry holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with an emphasis in Measurement, Statistics, and Human Learning, and an M.S. in Educational Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.

New for 2002: AMP RE Simulations

The Georgia Real Estate Commission has initiated through Applied Measurement Professionals, Inc. a project to develop real estate simulation exercises for on-demand training of licensees. Real estate simulation exercises will be available in 2002 via the internet. This workshop will provide an opportunity to complete up to three computerized simulation exercises dealing with ethics, trust accounts, and brokerage relationships. Each exercise includes a scenario with several sections designed to allow the licensee to either 1) identify information that should be sought from a client, customer, or another source or 2) make decisions about the most appropriate course of action. Each simulation exercise provides feedback concerning performance to the licensee.

William J. Aaron

Bill Aaron has served as Education Advisor for the Georgia Real Estate Commission and for the Georgia Appraisers Board since January 1993. He has direct responsibility for approving real estate and appraisal schools and instructors, monitoring approved schools through regular school audits, and overseeing the state examination processes for real estate and appraisal licensing. He is also responsible for prelicense instructor development, an annual real estate school meeting, the Commission's trust account seminars, and the administration of contract funds from the real estate education, research, and recovery fund.

Don't Overlook the Basics! Evaluating Your Own Education Program.

School administrators face challenging tasks in complying with Commission or Board regulations and in providing quality real estate education. Some instructors not only teach real estate or appraisal subjects, but also manage their own schools. Bill Aaron will provide guidelines and tools that directors, coordinators, and instructors may use to periodically review a real estate or appraisal education program. The workshop will guide participants through a model internal audit that determines a school's compliance with regulations and establishes the foundation for an exceptional education program.