Half Day Seminars
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
A Multisensory Approach
This 3 1/2 hour course will offer:
- An integrated reading, writing and spelling approach
- Suitable from new entrant to 15 years
Assessment:
- Development stages and levelling;
- Identifying learning gaps;
- Analysing assessments;
- Documentation templates.
Planning and Resourcing:
- Using assessment diagnostically;
- Planning suitable programmes;
- Teaching to developmental stages;
- Resourcing.
Implementation:
- Teaching small groups/whole class approaches;
- Strategies, skills and resources.
- Monitoring effective programmes.
This course will provide you with the professional knowledge and teaching skills, building new resources and use existing resources, to run effective programmes for all student levels and meet the needs of at risk learners
Course text: Alpha to Omega
Programme Stages
- Stage 1 up to 8 years
- Stage 2 up to 12 years
- Stage 3 up to 15 years
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Early bird rates of $260.00 plus GST are charged with payment due on or before the seminar date.Later payments will be charged at $305.00 + GST per person..?
A discount of $50.00 applies if both half day seminars are booked on the same day.
Review the seminar dates below and then use the form to register.
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Identification Assessment and Remediation
It is estimated that up to 70% of children with learning difficulties have visual processing problems
This course will provide you with the professional knowledge, training skills and resourcing to identify, assess needs, make specialist referrals and remediate vision problems impacting student learning
This 3 1/2 hour course will offer:
Understanding visual processing problems and underpinning weaknesses, including:
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- Visual discrimination;
- Visual memory;
- Visual sequencing;
- Visual closure;
- Visual figure ground;
- Scanning and tracking;
- Irlens.
Identification, assessment and referral.
- What is a behavioural optometrist assessment and why is it important?
- Resources and remediation strategies to provide vision training for identified students in an ?in school? setting.
This brand new course is designed:
- To teach all school staff how to identify students with visual problems and where to refer them.
- To provide a visual training programme for SENCO?s, teacher aides and other staff to remediate visual problems at low cost.
- To give schools a resource kit to use for visual training.
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Early bird rates of $275.00 plus GST are charged with payment due on or before the seminar date.?Later payments will be charged at $320.00 + GST per person. A full resource kit for Year 1 to Year 10 is included in this seminar.
A discount of $50.00 applies if both half day seminars are booked on the same day.
Review the seminar dates below and then use the form to register.
Secondary Learning Support and Teacher Aiding
Setting Students up for Success
This half day course is designed to give support staff team leaders, learning support staff, teacher aides and literacy assistants a background in understanding at risk learners, identifying needs and implementing strategies, resources and programmes to maximise potential.
Course breakdown:
- Understanding learner groups and needs
- What are underpinning weaknesses and how do they affect student achievement
- Setting achievement goals
- Understanding and implementing accommodations and strategies.
- Creating effective learning environments for at risk students
- Screening assessments
- Making referrals
- Programme Planning
- Resources and programmes
- Addressing underpinning weaknesses
- Monitoring progress
Ideally a SENCO/team leader should attend with support staff to maximise the benefits and outcomes achievable. Support staff who attend without a team leader will still gain significant benefit.
Course costs include:
- 3 full days of professional development across 3 months of implementation, monitoring and mentoring support.
- Online support group and unlimited email support from the team.
- SENCO?s and school leaders responsible for support staff unlimited email access to help support school implementation.
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Early Bird Registrations $120.00 plus GST per person booked and paid on or before the seminar date. Late registrations $150 plus GST per person
School special – $590 plus GST – 1 manager and up to 6 support staff. OR,?Later payments will be charged at $690.00 + GST.
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Review the seminar dates below and then use the form to register.
Keri Keri
Woodlands Motel,?126 Kerikeri Road,?Kerikeri
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Tuesday 13 March 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Tuesday 15 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Auckland
Auckland Rose Park Hotel, 92 ? 102 Gladstone Road, Parnell, Auckland
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Wednesday 14 March 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Wednesday 16 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
South Auckland
Papakura RSA, 40 Elliott Street, Papakura
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Thursday 17 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Thursday 15 March 2018 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Hamilton
Distinction Hamilton, 100 Garnett Ave, Te Rapa
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Friday 16 March 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Friday 18 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Tauranga
Tauranga RSA
Oaktree Restaurant ? 1237 Cameron Road, Greerton
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Monday 19 March 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Monday 21 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Whakatane
East Bay REAP, 21 Pyne St, Whakatane
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Tuesday 20 March 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Tuesday 22 May 2018? ? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Napier / Hastings
Napier RSA, 34 Vautier Street, Napier South
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Thursday 22 March 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Thursday 24 May 2018?? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
New Plymouth
Copthorne Hotel Grand Central, 42 Powderham St, New Plymouth
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Tuesday 29 May 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Taupo
Taupo RSA, 67 Horomatangi St
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Friday 23 March 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Friday 25 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Wanganui
Wanganui Kingsgate,?The Avenue Wanganui, 379 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Wednesday 4 April 218? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Wednesday 30 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Masterton
Solway Park Copthorne, High St, Masterton
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Thursday 5 April 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Thursday 31 May 2018 . 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Lower Hutt
Champers Motor Inn, 6-10 Pharazyn Street, Lower Hutt.
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Friday 6 April 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Friday 1 June 2018 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Nelson
Phonological half day on 10 April -?Trailways Hotel – 66 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Tuesday 10 April 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Tuesday 12 June 2018 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Hokitika
?Phonological half day on 12 April -?Beachfront Hotel – 111 Revell Street, Hokitika
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Thursday 12 April 2018 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Thursday 14 June 2018 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Christchurch
Phonological half day on 13 April -?Hornby Working Mens Club, 17 Carmen Road, Hornby
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Friday 13 April 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Friday? 15 June 2018? ?9.00?am – 12.30pm
Timaru
The Grosvenor 26 Cains Terrace, Timaru
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Tuesday 8 May 2018 .? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Tuesday 3 July 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Dunedin
Kingsgate Hotel, 10 Smith Street, Dunedin
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Wednesday 9 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Wednesday?4 July 2018 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Invercargill
Ascot Park Hotel and Conference Centre Cnr Tay and Racecourse Roads, Invercargill
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Thursday 10 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Thursday 5 July? 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Cromwell
Golden Gate Lodge, Barry Avenue, Cromwell
Phonological Awareness/Spelling Seminar
Friday 11 May 2018? 9.00?am – 12.30pm
Addressing Visual Processing & Learning Problems?In a School Setting
Friday 6 July 2018 .? 9.00?am – 12.30pm