Courses and Workshops
Instrumental Enrichment Level 1 Spring 2008
WHAT IS INSTRUMENTAL ENRICHMENT?
Instrumental Enrichment (IE) was developed by Professor Reuven Feuerstein, originally as an outcome of his work with immigrant populations regarded as ‘retarded’. IE is a thinking skills programme, which remediates cognitive difficulties through a structured course, based on 14 ‘Instruments’. The programme is built up systematically so that it is easy for the student to experience success and motivation. An essential aspect of IE is that it develops links to situations in everyday life and teaches the learner how to learn more effectively. This means learning to generate new information for oneself from existing information, taking decisions, learning to organise, plan and anticipate future events, learning to take responsibility and finding solutions to a range of problems.
WHO IS THE IE PROGRAMME SUITABLE FOR?
Because IE focuses on the process of thinking and not on the learning of content (facts and information), it is suitable for a wide range of learners, from upper primary children, adolescents and adults who have learning difficulties for whatever reasons, including:
- Children and adults with congenital or acquired learning disabilities
- Children and adults who do not achieve their potential due to unfavourable family, social or cultural circumstances
- Children and adolescents who are able or gifted underachievers
- Children, adolescents and adults who have difficulty learning and working because of emotional problems.
WHO CAN APPLY FOR THE TRAINING?
Teachers, learning support assistants, psychologists, therapists, parents and others working with children, adolescents and adults whose manifest intellectual functioning gives cause for concern.
WHO IS THE TRAINER?
Ruth Deutsch is lead UK an accredited trainer for Feuerstein’s International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP). Ruth teaches at The Institute of Education (London University) and trains psychologists, therapists and teachers across the U.K.
WHAT QUALIFICATIONS WILL BE GAINED?
Successful completion of the course will count as the first level of IE training. Participants completing Level 1 training will receive a certificate of accreditation as a Level 1 practitioner from ICELP and will be registered on the ICELP database.
WHAT DOES THE TRAINING COVER?
As well as instruction in the use of the first seven ‘Instruments’ (paper and pencil exercises, which are largely content free and require minimal literacy skills), the course will include:
- An introduction to cognitive development
- The theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability
- Deficient cognitive functions
- The cognitive map
- Mediated learning experiences
- Categories of mediated interaction
- Application to National Curriculum and to daily life skills
DATES
Wednesday 9th January 2008
Thursday 10th January 2008
Monday 28th January 2008
Tuesday 29th January 2008
Tuesday 12th February 2008
Wednesday 13th February 2008
Wednesday 27th February 2008
Thursday 28th February 2008
Monday 17th March 2008
Tuesday 18th March 2008
TIME
9.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
VENUE
The Hope Centre
228 Walm Lane
London
NW2 3BS
COST
£650 inclusive of IE Instruments, registration on ICELP practitioner database and certificate
£700 inclusive of IE Instruments, photocopied guides, registration on ICELP practitioner database and certificate
Guidebooks for each instrument will be available for purchase, as well as a range of useful books and other publications from ICELP
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