Basic Mentoring with Practicum Offered Summer 2008 by the Reading Center (Rochester,MN)
  
Teacher Training and Tutoring Offered Fall 2008
(Twin Cities,MN)
 
Comprehensive training in the Orton-Gillingham teaching approach
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.

Classes will be held:
July 14 - August 1, 2008
Classes are held Monday-Friday from 8:30-4:00 p.m.

Cost:
Cost: $975 if the registration form is received by June 23, 2008.
Thereafter, the cost will be $1,275.

Optional graduate or undergraduate college credits available through Winona State University at an additional cost.

2008 Summer Registration form now available.

Contact the Dyslexia Institute of MN / Reading Center for more information:
  • 507.288.5271
  • read@TheReadingCenter.org
  • www.TheReadingCenter.org
    • The Reading Center is a non-profit, United Way agency.

    Advanced Training Institute

    Tuition includes the Advanced Language Tool Kit and the Reading Center Advanced Training Manual.
    Dates and times for Advanced Training:
        June 16 - June 27, 2008
    Classes are held Monday-Friday from 8:30-4:00 p.m.
     
    Registration: required and limited *Please note* Basic Training must be successfully completed before taking Advanced.

    Course fee: Cost: $775
    (if the registration form is received by May 31, 2008). Thereafter, the cost will be $1,075.

    Optional graduate credit: (through Winona State University) call 800.242.8978 ext. 5080

    For more information and a registration brochure:
    click here or visit the The Reading Center website:
    www.TheReadingCenter.org

    Questions? Please call 507.288.5271
    		 
    Orton-Gillingham Teacher Training

    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.
    Orton-Gillingham 1
    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.

    Orton-Gillingham 2
    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, October 4th and October 11th, 2008
         from 9:00am - 3:30pm

    9 Tuesday evenings, October 7th through December 2nd, 2008
         {Oct 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, Nov 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, Dec 2nd}
         from 5:30pm - 9:00pm

    Students attend for tutoring on the Tuesday nights only at either 6pm or 7pm
     
    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
    For more information and a registration brochure: visit the Orton-Gillingham of Minnesota website:
    www.ortongillingham-mn.org

    Questions? Please call 763.951.2379

     

    The International Dyslexia Association does not endorse, accredit, recommend, or evaluate schools, colleges, camps, or institutions, teacher-training activities, specific educational materials or techniques, diagnostic tests or methods, individual or group practitioners in any such field. The Association is convinced that selection of appropriate diagnostic and/or remedial resources is the responsibility of the inquirer, who alone can best determine the essential elements of compatibility and accessibility.