Entertaining Professional Development Presentations For Your Use...For Life!Are you looking for a professional development presentation that your colleagues will enjoy? How about one where they emerge as a stronger team with skills they will really use?If you're homeschooling, why not get even better as the teacher? Look no further... I have been training teachers, psychologists, speech pathologists, homeschool parents and other professionals for over ten years. That's thousands of hours of professional development and many hundreds of satisfied clients. "Lively, practical delivery style. Plenty of opportunity to practise in small groups. Good balance between listening/doing/theory/practice. I was engaged, interested and pleased to have a practical and immediately useable tool for assisting childern in their learning." Jude Murphy, Eltham College of Education Language For Life Australian Tour Dates 2010To follow the hard-copy publication of the acclaimed Spelling For Life program, Lyn Cottee will be touring Australia, bringing the professional development workshop to teachers and professionals around the country. Hot on Spelling For Life's heels are Spelling For Life 2, the program of advanced orthography for people who understand syllables, affixes, basic sound/symbol relationships but would like to be stronger with spelling. Next in the series is Grammar For Life. A look at parts of speech, how words relate to one another, punctuation and using dictionaries and other alphabetised reference books. Workshops cost AUD$195 - $245 depending on the location. This includes lunch, morning tea and a free download of the relevant manual. Register your interest by pressing the links to the forms for your state.
Save Time, Money and Effort With Up to Date ResearchMy seminars always incorporate the latest research on the subject at hand. This means that you can rest assured that you are gaining best practice techniques for delivering literacy and language programs. "Passion, energy and lots of new information. Lots of interaction with you as a presenter offering immediate feedback . Lyn, you had everyone engaged in an most informative program." Jane Weatherley, Guthrie Street Primary School Tap Into a Wealth of Useful InformationI believe that professional development seminars are only as good as the information is useful. If attendees are given take-home tools that they can use straight away, I feel like I've done my job. That's why my seminars are designed to deliver:
"I liked the enthusiasm, knowledge and sense of humour of the presenter. Practical ideas, involvement of participants, good demonstration of teaching concepts. Wonderful inspiring stuff." Christine Anderson, Haslem Street Primary School A Varied Menu of Practical Workshops On Literacy and LanguageTo suit your professional development needs, I have three streams of workshops on offer: Please feel free to browse the subjects below and follow the links for more information. Quotes on fees and rates will be provided upon request.Whole Langauge Arts Programs on OfferSpelling For Life - a popular program to produce better spellers and readers. Based on the habits of good spellers. Suitable for years 3 and upwards. Very popular with high school and English as a Second Language students. Duration: 9:30am to 3:00pm.Spelling For Life II - an advanced spelling program that focuses on word power, morphology and word-referencing. Produces better spellers but also awakens a love of language in students for life. Duration: 9:30am to3:00pm. Grammar For Life - everything you ever wanted to know about grammar but were afraid to ask. Grammar For Life provides a key for teaching parts of speech and punctuation in a stimulating, memorable way. Duration: 9:30am to 3:00pm.
Mini-LecturesSocratic Questioning - learn how to teach by asking rather than telling. The theory of the Socratic Method and practical exercises to turn your students into critical thinkers. Duration: 2 hours. Kindergarten upwards.The Vowel Generator - a powerful spelling tool from the acclaimed Spelling For Life program. In just one short lecture, gain the ability to teach syllabification, morphology word-referencing and higher order spelling skills. Duration: 2 hours. Grade 3 upwards. The Suffix Generator - a different way to look at common suffixes and generate multisyllable words effortlessly. Duration: 1.5 hours. Grade 3 upwards. The Literacy Paradigm - a fascinating insight into the underlying sensory-cognitive functions of literacy acquisition. Gain an understanding of the processes involved in reading, writing and comprehension. Become skilled at diagnosing literacy difficulties and their origins. Become confident in choosing literacy and language interventions that work for all students. Duration: 1.5 hours. All ages and grades.
Current Research in Literacy - what the experts are saying and how this affects the curriculum. An overview of the science behind literacy and language teaching. Duration: 2 hours. All ages and grades.
Very Early Years Literacy - personal and professional insight into teaching babies and tiny children to read. The facts and the myths explored. Duration: 2 hours. All ages and grades.
Reintegrating The Newly-Skilled Student - practical tips to help children continue to achieve in the classroom after intensive literacy or language therapy. Some children fall back into old patterns of behaviour or achievement in class even after making significant gains with intensive literacy programs. A guide to making the transition smooth and enjoyable for teacher and student alike. Duration: 1 hour. All ages.
From Piaget to Paivio: The Paths My Disabled Child Has Led Me On - a personal account of how my six year old Chloe has given me deep insight into child development and disability; and how this has positively affected my practice. Ideal for specialist schools and integration aides. Duration: 1.5 hours. All ages.
Ten Top Energizers To Get Your Classroom Buzzing - a set of ten activities to facilitate teamwork, communication, concentration and problem-solving. Your class will be more receptive to your teaching and better able to remember and extend your lessons in just two weeks of short, daily energizers. Duration: 1 hour. All ages. "Great presentation Lyn - no time to lose concentration - felt involved and active at all times both days."Lee-Ann Toll, Leitchville Primary School Lindamood-Bell ProgramsMany schools and practitioners have bought the book and seen the film, but just how do you incorporate Lindamood-Bell's wonderful world of literacy and language into your school or practice?I am one of the few lucky practitioners in Australia who worked for Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in the brief time they were in Sydney. I have training from the horse's mouth, so to speak. I am therefore offering to schools and practitioners workshops on implementation of these programs within their academic or business framework. The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program - a world-class, research-based literacy acquisition program. The LiPS Program tackles phonemic awareness, sight words and spelling rules in a seamless, logical, unique way. This is the only program I am aware of that actually changes neurological structure to help students deal with print from the phonemic level onwards. Read a review here. Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing ReviewThe Nanci Bell Seeing Stars Program - the theory and techniques to practice "symbol imagery", the ability to visualize letters in words. Perfect as an adjunct to the LiPS program; incredibly successful as the solution to visual and auditory integration problems in students. "Lyn was fantastic, her knowledge is astounding, I can now go back with a knowledge and understanding of the program…"Gabrielle Denke, Seymour Technical High School The Nanci Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing Program - for students who have difficulty with comprehension skills, such as concluding, predicting, ordering, ranking, recalling facts and understanding the main idea in text and conversation. Very useful for autism spectrum students. While most language therapies exercise the above skills, Visualizing and Verbalizing actually creates the mental facility to acquire these skills. "I liked the whole method, approach and I especially liked the positive responses given when others gave incorrect responses. I was able to stay on task and was fully involved throughout the day, even at 6 o'clock." Janine McAuliffe, Haslem Street Primary School Quotes on fees and rates will be provided upon request. Just follow this link to send your query. We will get back to you very soon. Click here. For The Learning Centre's free monthly e-zine, "Language Fountain", send me the form below. You'll get a wealth of tips, top tens and facts in the grammar, spelling and reading world.
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