Dear Potential Participant,
This is a list of workshops that I will be giving in Okemos. If you are interested in taking any of these workshops, please fill in the bottom of this page and return it to:
Erickson Learning Center
2043 Hamilton Road
Okemos, Michigan 48864
Please pay fee by check or money order. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to call us at 517.347.0122 or fax us at 517.347.0288. Our e-mail address is:
erickson.center@sbcglobal.net Thank you.
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ERICKSON LEARNING CENTER
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
2008
All workshops will be held at the Center in Okemos
MULTI-SENSORY READING COMPREHENSION: Structured, multi-sensory techniques for reading comprehension will be stressed. Story form, information form, and procedural form for comprehension will be taught with an emphasis on concept teaching. Michigan Model techniques and visualization techniques will also be presented. Direct teaching technology will be demonstrated and used so that the participants can use these methods immediately with their students. Includes a packet of materials.
DATE: June 13, 2008 TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. COST: $100.00
MULTI-SENSORY APPROACH TO WRITTEN EXPRESSION: This one day workshop emphasizes multi-sensory approaches to teaching writing skills. The skills covered in this workshop are: Grammar, punctuation, parts of speech, sentence structure, paragraph structure, report writing, and procedural writing. It is appropriate for regular education teachers, special education teachers, and support staff. The reading-writing connection will be discussed.
DATE: May 19, 2008 TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. COST: $100.00
MULTI-SENSORY MATH: The emphasis of this workshop will be on multi-sensory techniques using concrete methodologies. Techniques from Math Their Way, Math: A Way of Thinking, Touch Math and others will be discussed and demonstrated. The following skills and concepts will be covered: Multi-sensory approaches to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; using numbers at the concept, connecting and symbolic levels; fractions, decimals, percents and place value will be covered; various games will be demonstrated. Includes a packet of materials
DATE: June 27, 2008 TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. COST: $100.00
DECODING-ENCODING WORKSHOP: This is an intensive workshop consisting of class lectures, demonstrations, and assimilated learning experiences. The curriculum is based on an adaptation of the Orton-Gillingham multidisciplinary approach emphasizing multi-sensory teaching techniques researched and used for 50 years with students who have unique learning needs. Participants successfully completing the 30-hour workshop will be prepared to apply these strategies at a basic Decoding/Encoding level to be used in support rooms and/or regular education rooms (Kindergarten - third grade). Attendance of all classes is required to successfully complete this workshop. The approach is an adapted version of Orton-Gillingham. Samuel T. Orton, M.D. and his associates and successors have pioneered these methods, which are scientifically sound and practically effective. The multidisciplinary approach uses the skill and knowledge of experts from numerous fields including education, medicine, psychology, social work and language therapy.
The program’s essential elements: It is an individualized, multidisciplinary, multi-sensory approach that is synthetic and analytical. It recognizes linguistic power and is emotionally sound, systematic and sequential. Each step is based on those already learned. The process is a cumulative sum or cycle of growth. The student is helped to understand the reasons for what he is learning. He will then have the confidence that he can think his way through language problems instead of counting only on memory – a cognitive approach. Its purpose is to get information from one person’s mind to another’s. Communication is the most important point. The method teaches reading and spelling to those students who have had difficulty learning these skills using traditional methods. Includes notebook, textbooks, phonic cards, blending board, tray with sand, and handouts
DATES: June 16 – 19, 2008 TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. COST: $500.00
ORTON-GILLINGHAM REFRESHER COURSE: This one day workshop will review key elements of the 30-hour course. For this course to be meaningful, a participant must have had basic Orton-Gillingham training at the decoding/encoding level. Skills that will be reviewed include: The three drills, key spelling rules, multi-sensory technique as the 3-3-3, finger spelling, etc., schwa and accent, lesson planning techniques and new materials including Erickson Reading System. There will be time for practice and questions. Includes a packet of materials.
DATE: August 8, 2008 TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. COST: $100.00
A MULTI-SENSORY APPROACH TO WRITTEN EXPRESSION
This one-day workshop emphasizes multi-sensory approaches to teaching writing skills. The skills covered in this workshop are:
Grammar Punctuation
Parts of Speech Sentence Structure
Paragraph Structure Report Writing
Procedural Writing
It is appropriate for regular education teachers, special education teachers, and support staff. The reading-writing connection will be discussed. Includes a packet of materials.
Date: Aug. 15, 2008 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Cost: $100
INCOPRORATING PHONOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES INTO YOUR PHONICS PROGRAM:
Phonological awareness is sensitivity to and an awareness of the sounds of our language. It is necessary to have phonological awareness to learn how to read no matter what the student’s age. With phonological awareness, students become aware of the individual sounds in words and are able to recognize the breaks between syllables in words and words in sentences. Through phonics instruction, they learn the alphabetic principles (the systematic and predictable relationship between letters and sounds) and use knowledge of work patterns to recognize familiar words and to decode new words. Includes a packet of materials.
DATE: August 22, 2008 TIME: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. COST: $100.00