Discovering Students “Hidden” Learning Potential Featuring Dr. David Tzuriel Price: $995.00 May 16– 19, 2016 Rockville Centre, New York
This 4 day workshop is for speech pathologists, psychologists, educators, preschool professionals, and resource teachers. Designed to introduce and understand the growing need for applying dynamic assessment (DA) of “hidden” learning potential in students and for how we prepare students for the ever changing environment. The workshop will incorporate demonstrations of DA, small group practice, evaluator-student interaction, interpretation of assessment results, and report writing. This workshop includes comprehensive instructions in the following:
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Understand the theoretical foundations of the DA approach especially the theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability (SCM) and Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) – Reuven Feuerstein. Discover the main goals of DA and the shifts from standardized testing. Explore the major characteristics of DA for implementing with various student populations. Identify deficient cognitive functions that act as barriers to thinking and learning. Develop specific mediational strategies in DA and in intervention. Learn how to bridge the DA findings to educational intervention. Experience the measures developed by Dr. David Tzuriel (The Children's Analogical Thinking Modifiability Test (CATM); The Children's Inferential Thinking Modifiability Test (CITM); The Cognitive Modifiability Battery (CMB): Assessment and Intervention; The Seriational Thinking Modifiability Test (CSTM); The Seria-Think Instrument; The Children’s Conceptual and Perceptual Analogical Modifiability (CCPAM)l; Closed and Construction Analogies Versions; The Windows Mental Rotation Dynamic Assessment (WMR-DA).