Teacher Training Courses and Workshops
ESLEA works with school systems, health care professionals, and others who provide services to children in a variety of venues.All workshops can be provided in formats that provide training for school districts and for individuals.

Teaching for Phonemic Awareness
How to Implement Phonemic Awareness in Reading Skill Instruction

Teachers may use this program remedially or developmentally as part of their instruction in reading and spelling.  The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® program (LiPS®) provides the basis for our training.  This program may be integrated into the reading instruction currently used by a teacher or a district.  In addition, a fluency component is included in our instruction in the LiPS® program so that students may practice skills.  Fluency in reading is common goal:  practice using techniques of Precision Teaching ensures that students develop fluency in the component skills of reading so that they will indeed develop fluency in reading passages.

2011 LiPS® Full Training Course* 2/25, 2/26, 3/11, 4/1, & 4/2   Click here for registration form and details.   (*course dates are subject to change)

ESLEA is NOT Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes nor is it affiliated with, certified, endorsed, licensed, monitored or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood or Pat Lindamood.  Lindamood-Bell - an international organization creating and implementing unique instructional methods and programs for quality intervention to advance language and literacy skills - in no way endorses or monitors the services provided by ESLEA.

Precision Teaching Workshops
Increasing Rates of Performance and the Connection to Retention and Application of Skills

Techniques of Precision Teaching are utilized in order to insure that skills and content knowledge is learned to fluency and so that students may learn more complex material.  Precision Teaching is used to improve efficiency in learning, as well as for monitoring the student’s progress in a program and the effectiveness of the program.  At ESLEA, Precision Teaching techniques are used in our tutoring programs to build skills necessary for fluent language production, reading/spelling, math, and handwriting.  Participants will develop an understanding of:
•the history and theory of Precision Teaching as well as research confirming its efficacy;
•the fundamentals of gathering, recording, and interpreting data; and
•specific instructional techniques and issues. 

Precision Teaching: Math Fact Fluency & More 2/18/11 8:30 to 12:30    Registration form and details.
Workshop postponed until April 8, 2011

Instrumental Enrichment
Cognitive Skills Training for the Enhancement of Learning Potential

Training in Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Programs will provide educators with the knowledge and ability to enable them to develop students’ cognitive functions so that they will apply efficient thinking and problem solving skills to school work and to daily living situations.  Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Curriculum is:
•Development and enhancement of cognitive skills necessary for academic learning and achievement;
•A structure within which to change the learning habits of students;
•A scope and sequence of cognitive skills taught directly at first, then “bridged” into content areas and         daily living situations;
•14 “Instruments”, paper and pencil tasks focused on development of particular skills within the scope              and sequence of the program;
•A strong theoretical foundation supporting the teaching of cognitive skill to attain cognitive modifiability.

Watch for 2011 course dates to be announced.