Listed below are additional summer teacher-training courses that may be of interest to teachers. These are short courses not eligible for NCBIDA scholarship.

SLINGERLAND SHORT COURSES

Slingerland Techniques for Reading
Dates / Times: June 16-18, 2008, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
This course addresses the relationship of learning reading skills to the acquisition of oral language and its development. Multisensory techniques that begin with single units of sight, sound and feel and progress to larger units will be taught and practiced. These techniques include decoding skills, phrase-reading, vocabulary development, fluency skills, reading with comprehension, and higher-level critical thinking skills leading to increased fluency and comprehension.
Cost: $625

Slingerland Screening Skills
Dates / Times: June 23-24, 2008, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
An introduction to Slingerland screening procedures - these procedures help identify students with specific language disabilities. The tests aid in identifying children whose current language difficulties may continue beyond periods of development or maturational lag and become persistent specific language disabilities in later grades - learn how to identify, compare, assist and refer.
Cost: $355

Handwriting Skills
Dates / Times: June 26-27, 2008, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Discover instructional techniques for teaching manuscript and cursive handwriting using the Slingerland multisensory Approach. The participant will become proficient with both writing forms and learn methods of presenting handwriting to all levels of students. The participant will learn the developmental stages of handwriting in a student, the ability to identify breakdowns in the learning process and develop lesson plans; styles of letter form including manuscript and cursive AND much more!.
Cost: $355

Registration price includes materials
The courses also qualify for graduate level continuing education units from the University of San Diego (for an additional fee).

Course Location
Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy (SAVA Center)
5330 Power Inn Road, Suite D
Sacramento, CA 95820

You may register online at: http://www.slingerland.org/courses/locations.html


CHARTWELL SCHOOL TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE

All classes will be held at Chartwell School: 2511 Numa Watson Road, Seaside, California 93955

Theory I: Psycho-Educational Testing
Dates / Times: June 16 - 20, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Tuition: $200
Instructor: Kristen Atkins, M.S.
Topics to be covered: Three Profiles of learning disabilities - ADD, Dyslexia and Non-Verbal LD; Dyslexia - demystifying reading difficulties; Learned Helplessness and Attribution Training; Diagnostic Teaching

Theory II: Best Practices for Teaching Reading
Dates / Times: June 23-27, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Tuition: $200
Instructor: Kristen Atkins, M.S.
Topics to be covered: National Reading Panel Study of Best Practices; Phonemic Awareness; Reading Comprehension; Vocabulary; Critique of Efficacy of State Standards

Theory III: Early Identification, Assessment, and Intervention of Reading Difficulties
Dates / Times: June 30 - July 3, 9:30 am - 12:00 noon
Tuition: $200
Instructor: Kristen Atkins, M.S.
Topics to be covered: Early reading interventions, introduction to the DIBELS; Fluency - Read Naturally and DIBELS; Intervention Activities; The Role of the Reading Coach

Practicum
Dates / Times: June 16 - July 3, 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Tuition: $600
Instructor: Judy Gaughf, M.Ed.
This three-week practicum is an introductory course for classroom teachers, tutors, and educational therapists interested in prescriptive teaching. It will provide research-based reading instruction techniques for students who need structure to function successfully in all areas of language arts, including reading, writing, spelling, and speaking. Participants will learn about the components of the structured language training lesson plan, the methodology to teach a lesson, the philosophy behind the multi-sensory lesson, and the scope and sequence of linguistic information needed to teach at various levels.
Topics to be covered: Multisensory training methods; Structured language lessons; Analysis of linguistic patterns; found in English language; Decoding strategies; Encoding strategies using simultaneous oral spelling; Six Kinds of Syllables, Four Rules of Syllabication

For more information or to apply, contact Kristen Atkins at 831.394.3468 x 1012 or katkins@chartwell.org. Scholarships are available from Chartwell School. CEU credits available through the University of San Diego (USD).


LINDAMOOD-BELL

Location
Sheraton Grand Sacramento
1230 J. Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

Workshop Schedule

Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®)
Dates: Monday, July 28 - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Cost: $769

Seeing Stars®: Symbol Imagery (SI™)
Dates: Thursday, July 31 - Friday, August 1, 2008
Cost: $549

Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®)
Dates: Monday, August 4 - Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Cost: $549

Talkies®
Dates: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Cost: $339

On Cloud Nine® Math (OCN™)
Dates: Thursday, August 7, 2008
Cost: $339

For more information or to register, please visit: http://www.lindamoodbell.com/professionaldevelopment/workshop-schedule-by-location.html