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Educational Workshops
Professional Workshop Series for Educators
LDA Minnesota is pleased to offer a new series of professional workshops for educators at all levels. Attendees will gain an enriched understanding of learning disabilities, ADHD, and other learning challenges. Each month, two topics are presented at either a morning or evening session. Choose a session(s) that will meet your professional needs.
September 2010
Thursday, September 9 • 9:30 – 11:00 am • daytime session
Or: Tuesday, September 14 • 5:30 – 7:00 pm • evening session
Topic 1: Assessing learning disabilities
Topic 2: Understanding the eligibility criteria for referral to special education services or for GED test accommodations
Learn about learning disabilities and how they are diagnosed and treated. Gain insight into whom should be referred for assessment, the assessment process, and how report conclusions are reached and instruction and accommodation recommendations made.
October 2010
Thursday, October 7 • 9:30 – 11:00 am • daytime session
Or: Tuesday, October 12 • 5:30 – 7:00 pm • evening session
Topic 1: Interpreting the written test results of an LD assessment
Topic 2: Understanding how different learning disabilities impact how the student learns and maximizing the benefits of LDA’s individualized recommendations
Learn how the tests used to assess learning disabilities work. Gain knowledge into how the major types of learning disabilities impact the learning process and how the individualized recommendations can help the student and teacher.
November 2010
Thursday, November 11 • 9:30 – 11:00 am • daytime session
Or: Tuesday, November 16 • 5:30 – 7:00 pm • evening session
Topic 1: Intelligence – the different types and how each plays a role in learning
Topic 2: Adult ADHD – understanding the disorder; myths vs. science and how ADHD relates to learning disabilities
Understand the different types of intelligence and how each can impact learning. Clarify your understanding of ADHD, focusing on how it is assessed and issues unique to adult remedial learners.
Workshop Fees
Fees are $40 per workshop, or all three for $95. To register, please contact client services at 952.582.6000. Please note: These workshops are offered FREE of charge to Minnesota ABE instructional staff, but pre-registration is requested of all attendees.
Times: Thursdays, 9:30 – 11:00 am, Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:00 pm
LDA has developed customized workshops to meet the
needs of teaching professionals, supervisors, parents,
employers, and volunteers in schools, businesses, neighborhood
and community agencies.
All of LDA's educational workshops are presented by
talented professionals in the fields of learning disabilities,
ADHD, and related learning difficulties. Workshops have
been developed to be interactive, engaging, and participatory.
As specialists in learning, LDA experts realize that
participants learn best when they are engaged through
a variety of activities. LDA's interactive workshops
include small group discussions, debates, use of visual
learning tools, cooperative groups, role-playing, learning-based
activities, and large group discussions.
What is a Learning Disability?
Participants learn to identify the characteristics of
a learning disability, understand the learning process
and how a learning disability interferes with that process,
and gain information about strategies and accommodations
to help individuals with a learning disability succeed.
Participants also experience different types of learning
disabilities through simulation activities.
Tapping Brain Research to Maximize
Student Attention and Memory
Learn research-supported, practical techniques for gaining
student attention and maximizing efficient information
processing. Be involved in collaboratively generating
strategies for maximizing attention and memory. You'll
walk away with lesson ideas and techniques to keep students,
grades 3-12, with learning disabilities and related
learning difficulties engaged.
Motivating Reluctant Learners
Participants will identify motivation problems and strategies
to move beyond, "I can't do this." Helpful
instructor and environmental characteristics will be
discussed along with motivating teaching methods and
case scenarios.
How to improve decoding, fluency,
and comprehension in 30 hours of supplemental reading
instruction
Learn how intensive, structured and explicit instruction
in phonics, fluency, and comprehension has improved
reading in at-risk urban youth by over one year in 30
hours. You learn the method, materials, and research
LDA uses in its highly successful reading program. LDA
will provide a live demonstration of proven techniques.
Understanding Adult Learning
Disabilities
Participants will gain a better understanding of the
definition of LD and the difficulties LD adults deal
with in everyday life and learning. They will also receive
a copy of the Screening Checklist for Adult Learning
Disabilities adapted by LDA Learning Center for ABE
providers. The presentation is based on Bridges to Practice,
A Research-based Guide for Literacy Practitioners Serving
Adults with Learning Disabilities.
LD Appropriate Instruction
for Adults
This presentation provides a model of appropriate teaching
or tutoring for adults with learning disabilities using
role-play, sample lesson organizers, and examples of
"strategic," learner-centered instruction
for skills and content.
Workshops
on ADHD Issues
Strategies for Working with ADHD
Families
Do you work with families that live in chaos? Do they
have children with ADHD who experience problems at school
or at home? Do they have difficulty managing their finances,
home, children, or jobs? Are they overwhelmed? This
workshop addresses how to work with ADHD families and
offers specific strategies.
How the ADHD Brain Works: Implications
for Learning and GED
Learners coping with ADHD symptoms or diagnosed ADHD
experience significant challenges in completing tasks
that require sustained effort. Discover how this disorder
of "executive functions" impacts adults with
ADHD and their efforts to complete their GED and maintain
employment. Many individuals can be helped with strategies
and/or medications.
Adult ADHD: Myths, Facts, and
Information You can Use
Discover how this disorder of "executive functions"
impacts adults with ADHD and their efforts to maintain
employment. Learn meaningful strategies that can be
used by adults with ADHD.
Transition Planning for Students
with ADHD
Appropriate Transition Planning begins at age 14. Learn
how parents, students, and schools can work together
to create a meaningful plan that prepares the students
for life after high school.
Pricing: $250 per hour of training
or $1,200 for a full day of training.
All trainings can be tailored to fit an organization's
needs. Customized workshops vary in price, based on
the degree of preparation required and the length of
the workshop.
More workshops are being developed all the time!
Please call 952-922-8374 for more information.
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