ERICKSON LEARNING CENTER
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
2010
All workshops will be held at the Center in Okemos
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 multisensory 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, multisensory 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.
Dates: Aug. 2 – Aug. 5 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Caryn Edwards
Location: Erickson Learning Center
2043 Hamilton Road
Okemos, MI 48864
(517) 347-0122
Cost: $500.00, includes all materials to implement the
Program (manuals, card packs, tape, sand tray, etc.)
REFRESHER COURSE -- ORTON-GILLINGHAM
DECODING/ENCODING
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.
Date: July 30, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Caryn Edwards
Location: Erickson Learning Center
2043 Hamilton Road
Okemos, MI 48864
(517) 347-0122
Cost: $100 (includes materials)
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
DATE: August 13, 2010
TIME: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
INSTRUCTOR: Caryn Edwards
LOCATION: Erickson Learning Center
2043 Okemos Road
Okemos, MI 4886
(517) 347-0122
COST: $100.00 (includes materials)
PHONEMIC AWARENESS AND
STRUCTURED MULTI-SENSORY PHONICS
This workshop will demonstrate how these two approaches can work together. Highly motivating techniques will be shown and discussed. These techniques will be used in a whole language context whenever appropriate.
Date: August 20, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Caryn Edwards
Location: Erickson Learning Center
2043 Hamilton Road
Okemos, MI 48864
(517) 347-0122
Cost: $100 (includes materials)