For more than 50 years, licensed teachers, paraprofessionals, home educators, parents, and even grandparents have taken our training courses, which are designed to help those who struggle unexpectedly learning to read, write, and spell. The Orton-Gillingham approach, as taught by highly qualified Reading Center instructors, employs scientifically researched reading instruction. There is strong empirical evidence that this approach can actually open pathways in the brain to allow it to function the same as that of a “normal” reader’s brain. Sign up today to learn this valuable skill for your own enrichment, for your professional development, or to equip you to open pathways for those about whom you care.

Contact the Dyslexia Institute of MN / Reading Center for more information:
     507-288-5271
     read@TheReadingCenter.org

The Reading Center is a non-profit, United Way agency.

Each teacher training course provides instruction in the Orton-Gillingham approach, a phonetic, rule-based, structured and multi-sensory method for teaching reading and spelling. All courses include supervised clinical practice teaching, with testing procedures and data collection to evaluate student progress. Courses are open to teachers, tutors, parents and others interested in multi-sensory language instruction.

The staff of Orton-Gillingham of Minnesota includes two Orton Gillingham Academy Fellows.

Lecture and practicum. Skills for teaching beginning reading, spelling and handwriting (lower elementary level), focusing on sounds, rules, phonemic awareness, lesson planning and teaching strategies.

Lecture and practicum. Skills for teaching reading, spelling and handwriting (middle elementary level), focusing on sounds, rules, syllable types, syllable division, affixes and lesson planning.
 

These classes include 18 hours of practicum so participants learn how to apply new knowledge and are ready to use it in a classroom or tutoring situation.  

Dates and times for both courses:
2 Saturdays, September 29th and October 6th, 2007
     from 9:00am - 3:30pm

Tuesdays, October 2nd through November 27th, 2007
     {Oct 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, Nov 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th}
     from 5:30pm - 9:00pm

Registration: required and limited
Course fee: $750 (this also covers the $150 materials fee)
Optional graduate credit:
    (through Hamline University) an additional fee.

Scholarships are available.

Location for both courses: Groves Academy
Registration form: (in adobe PDF format):
www.ortongillingham-mn.org/OGMteacher.pdf

Questions? Please call 763.951.2379

Students and adults having difficulty with reading and/or spelling (at 1st-6th grade levels) can receive 9 hours of Orton-Gillingham instruction this fall. The Orton-Gillingham approach is a phonetic, rule-based, structured and multi-sensory method for teaching reading and spelling. It is a systematic and cumulative approach involving intensive reinforcement. Instruction will be either on an individual basis or in small groups (up to 3 students).

The tutors will be teachers who are taking an Orton-Gillingham practicum, co-sponsored by Orton-Gillingham of Minnesota, Groves Academy and Hamline University.

Each session is 55 minutes.

Attendance for all 9 sessions is required.