"Reuven Feuerstein is one of a handful of educational thinkers and practitioners who has made a significant, lasting contribution to our understanding of human learning.” - Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education “A highly innovative and immensely hope-inspiring work. - John D. Bransford, University of Washington, College of Education
“The program (Instrumental Enrichment) holds great promise for improving learning skills of millions of mildly retarded, culturally disadvantaged adolescents in our school systems and for the more precise identification and placement of children based upon what they can learn rather than what have learned.” - NICHD Scientists Prediction
THINKING & LEARNING CAN BE CHANGED FOREIGN LANGUAGE Explore Critical Thinking programs to enrich your students’ 21st Century learning potential. SMART AND EFFECTIVE
MEETING THE STANDARDS
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) builds critical thinking skills by strengthening the associated core cognitive functions. Based on the mediation of increasingly complex paper and pencil and visuallystimulating “instruments”, FIE has been successfully implemented for over 60 years and documented by thousands of scientific research studies with diverse populations. FIE has been translated into 28 languages and is used in over 80 countries worldwide.
Consistent with the goals of the all academic standards, the primary goal of Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment programs are to develop thinking and problem solving skills, not just for the test, but for lifelong learning. In order to accomplish this, the teacher or the therapist needs to provoke students interest and curiosity by asking questions such as “how,” “what,” “why,” and “when” while explicitly focusing on the required thinking skill in a task. These skills consist of using logic, comparisons, planning , control of impulsivity, summation, etc .
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Strengthen all children’s critical thinking skills.
Using the Feuerstein programs helps the students develop the thinking skills above and beyond the contexts of the specific instruction area, thus creating a wider transfer. It is not the teacher or therapist who formulates the students’ response but builds on the process of how the students reach the conclusion. FIE “mediates” the systematic release of critical thinking, development of students’ responsibility, and students’ understanding and meaning by empowering the students’ to own their learning.
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RESPECT THE BRAIN. BUILD THE MIND. There are no fixed conditions or genetic predispositions which preclude thinking and learning.
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The Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Program (FIE) is a series of tasks that directly focuses on the development of thinking skills. The implementation of the instruments effectively requires a different teaching style called Mediated Learning Experience (MLE). The intention is to improve students’ social adaptability that ultimately contributes towards real-life problem solving skills (as opposed to just content areas).
Students are encouraged to generalize rules and principles that are transferred to a wide range of contexts. Creating insight or “meta-cognition,” the teacher will actively mediate the transfer of the newly acquired strategies to real life. Designed to provide a rich context for the development of cognitive and metacognitive structures, students are less likely to be placed into special education, more likely to graduate high school and go on to college.
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The International Renewal Institute has worked with educational leaders, school districts, and educators around the country including Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Road Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and others for the most effective approach for implementing the Feuerstein Method. IRI is the leading training provider and distributor for Reuven Feuerstein’s method and program for students and teachers in North America (United States and Canada). IRI is known for their cutting-edge program design and implementation of research-rich, standards-aligned professional learning programs. Today, Feuerstein’s theory and programs on the malleability of thinking and learning has led to more than 2,000 scientific research studies and countless case studies with various learning populations. Due to its long history and application, FIE is one of the most researched cognitive intervention programs in the world.