WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
   
 

 

Phonics Workshops
$598.00 (FOS members), $638.00 (non-members)

24-hours of fun, lively & interactive activities spread over 4 weeks!
Only apply if you're a teacher or a parent who wants to enjoy and learn phonics the right way!
You will go home armed with the knowledge and strategies to teach better, as well as with fresh inspiration!

Phonics: An introduction Workshop (Part 1 & 2)
7th February 2009, Saturday, 10.30 am to 5.30 pm

Phonemic Awareness Workshop (Part 3 & 4)
14th February 2009, Saturday, 10.30 am to 5.30 pm

Singlish, Speech and Phonics (NEW Part 5, 6, 7 & 8) [Also available as a separate course]
21st February 2009, Saturday, 10.30 am to 5.30 pm
28th February 2009, Saturday, 10.30 am to 5.30 pm

SIGN-UP for all 8 parts and receive a FREE copy of the
Read-On software worth over $425.00

Click HERE for further details or HERE for the registration form.

 

Ross T Harries
Ross T Harries is one of the most broadly experienced and qualified speakers and trainers in Singapore.

A winner of many awards including the Rotary Youth Leadership Award and Lion's Youth of the Year, Ross has worked extensively in training, teaching and professional speaking. In Singapore, one of his trainees was awarded the National Achievers Award.

As a corporate speaker & sales trainer, Ross teaches and trains in many areas such as: Presentation Skills, Public Speaking, English and Oral Communication, Creativity and Innovation to name a few. Ross T Harries' wealth of experience and qualifications are beautifully blended with a natural gift for communicating with people from all backgrounds and walks of life.

 

 

Emotional Intelligence For Kids
EQ4KIDZ training for facilitators
$398.00 (FOS members) , $458.00 (non-members)
18th & 19th December 2008, Thursday & Friday (9.30 am to 5.30 pm)

This course assists teachers, and anyone keen to help all children reach for the stars and maximise their potential. It is a 7-module course is designed to help all children reach for the stars and maximise their potential

  • Increase self-esteem
  • Understand and manage their feelings
  • Develop strategies to handle frustration and anger
  • Develop "I CAN" attitudes
  • Establish healthy boundaries and become assertive
  • Become happier with a more positive attitude
  • Develop resilience
  • Deal with bullies
  • Improve social skills and form appropriate friendships
  • Increase personal motivation
  • Form goals and develop the ability to "follow-through"

 

Early bird Course Fee (Introductory offer for 2008 Only)
FOS member $ 398.00 Non member $ 458.00

Course Fee includes:
Course notes, *What do you stand for? book, light lunch, refreshments & a Certificate of participation.
*"What do you stand for?" book is only available for registration and payment before 30th November 2008.

 

Click HERE for further details or HERE for the registration form.

 

 

Assessing your child
Please call for our hourly / daily rates
17th to 27th December 2008

ATTENTION ALL PARENTS.
ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR CHILD'S ACADEMIC PROGRESS? We CAN help.

We provide a comprehensive educational assessment coupled with an analysis of your child's preferred learning style and comprehensive learning plan. This holistic approach empowers you to help your child "reach for the stars".

The full educational assessment is administered Victoria Carlton, the Director of THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE. (Australia) This comprehensive assessment will determine:

  • Learning strengths and weaknesses: maths, language
  • Speech and oral language development
  • Perceptual motor attainment
  • Presence of dyslexia, ADD, ADHD
  • Learning style
  • Multiple Intelligence levels
  • Ability to concentrate
  • Visual and auditory memory levels
  • Level of emotional intelligence

 

Click HERE for further details.

 

 

Helping Reluctant Readers
Getting the words to flow like water
$258.00 (FOS members) , $298.00 (non-members)
22nd December 2008, Monday (9.30 am to 5.30 pm)

Many children HATE writing and will do ANYTHING to avoid it-including making your classroom a battlefield!

Discover WHY reluctant writers hate writing and WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!

EMPOWER YOUR CHILDREN TO BECOME COMPETENT, CONFIDENT WRITERS WHO ENJOY THE PROCESS.

Come along and discover CREATIVE, CHILD-FRIENDLY and ENJOYABLE ways to empower your young writers. This 1-day workshop will leave you energised, revitalised and enthusiastic to begin a new approach to writing! We have trialled these strategies for more than 10 years and know they work!

 

Early bird Course Fee
FOS member $ 258.00 Non member $ 298.00

Course Fee includes:
Course notes, *"Teaching Beginning Writing" book, light lunch & refreshments & a Certificate of Participation *"Teaching Beginning Writing" book is only available for registration and payment by 30th November 2008.

 

Click HERE for further details or HERE for the registration form.

 

 

Make your child brilliant!
$98.00 (FOS members) , $128.00 (non-members)
19th December 2008

A seminar for teachers and parents who want to help their children reach full potential AND learn about toys, books and games that enhance the 8 intelligences.

You will learn-

  • How to identify and increase all the 8 intelligences.
  • Ways to stimulate brain development and link creativity and academic performance.
  • How to help ALL children consolidate and improve learning.
  • How to provide brain-compatible learning situations within your home and ensure academic ability increases over the long January holiday break.
  • Which games, books and teaching tools really do stimulate learning and provide delight and enjoyment?
  • How to help your child develop a life-long love of learning!

Course Fee includes:
Course notes, *"You're smarter than you think" book.
*"You're smarter than you think" book is only available for registration and payment by 30th November 2008.

 

Click HERE for further details or HERE for the registration form.

 

 

8th Intake: Fitzroy Teacher Certification course (more)
Basic and Advanced (2-days intensive workshop)


Saturday, 29th November 2008 (9.30 am to 5.30 pm)
Sunday, 30th November 2008 (10.00 am to 6.00 pm)

 

Course Fee
Includes Fitzroy products worth $159.90, lunch, course materials & The Fitzroy Certificate of Teaching

Early Bird Course Fee:                        $ 428.00 (FOS member)             $ 488.00 (non-member)
Fee after August 2008:                        $ 458.00 (FOS member)             $ 528.00 (non-member)

Without the right teacher even the best reading method will be grounded.
Are you doing everything you can to get the best out of your students?

Ultimately, the strength of any educational institution, be it a kindergarten, primary school or university, rests on the quality of its teaching personnel. Fundamental to this teacher quality is teacher training. Get the training right and you’re over halfway to success. The Fitzroy Teacher Certification Course is the only program endorsed by Fitzroy Programs, creators of the Fitzroy Method. It provides teachers with the knowledge and tools necessary to ensure that they get the most from their students and teaching material. The course is comprehensive, lively and hands-on. Upon its completion participants will be equipped with everything they need to know to teach the Fitzroy Method with confidence, skill — and a sense of pleasure. 

Due to overwhelming demand, this latest course has been tailored to run over 2 days covering elementary to the advanced level. It is divided up into easily digestible teaching units including a 45-minute assessment.

Units include:

  • The Fitzroy Method: System, method and structure. How and why it works. 
  • First steps in the Fitzroy method: Where to begin, how to proceed.

Using basic teaching materials such as:

  • The Alphabet Book, Sound box, Readers 1-60, The Word Skills Books, Audio CDs
  • Fitzroy Talking Readers CD-Rom version: Special features for accelerated learning
  • Alphabetics games: The fast track to word formation
  • Revise all the import digraphs and sounds (and how best to teach them)
  • Common phonic teaching mistakes (and how to avoid them!)
  • Creative writing: simple strategies for a solid foundation
  • Formal writing for young students (e.g. essay): Creating complex ideas in simple ways.
  • Advanced grammar: Secondary school grammar for primary school students.
  • Public speaking: Why your child will never fear it again. Fitzroy Community School’s secret.
  • How to conduct a class: Making lessons memorable. Techniques for rapid learning.
  • Tests and techniques for effective classroom assessment.
  • Accelerated learning: how to use what you already know. Fostering creativity in the classroom.
  • Psychology of teaching: How to get the best out of your students. Things to do, things to avoid. 
  • Classroom games and activities: Supplies teachers with numerous practical teaching exercises and classroom activities.  How to use what you already know. Fostering creativity in the classroom.
  • Answers to perennial questions such as:
      • At what age should a child start learning to read?
      • How long should it take for your child to develop reading fluency?

Participants will receive a Fitzroy Certificate of Attendance. At the end of the course, participants can sit for a short assessment and those who successfully pass the assessment will receive a Fitzroy Teachers' Certification Certificate. This certifies that you are competent to teach the Fitzroy Method.

Jeremy O'Carroll, the Director of Training, is one of the founding students of the Fitzroy Community School. He is the best trainer in the world ready to impart his first-hand experience on the success of the program.

Click HERE for a registration form.

 

 

IMPROVING LITERACY THE JOLLY LEARNING WAY

20th & 21st December 2008,
Saturday & Sunday (9.30 am to 4.30 pm)

Did you know that children taught early literacy skills the JOLLY PHONICS way are nearly always well ahead of their chronological age level?

This workshop is for all those people who are concerned with helping children to reach their full academic potential.

This new 1-day workshop will demonstrate:

  • The paramount importance of phonics teaching and recent research in this area
  • The philosophy and background inherent to JOLLY PHONICS
  • The components of the programme and how they combine to help children learn phonics, spelling and writing in a multi-sensory way
  • How to incorporate JOLLY PHONICS into a highly effective teaching program for your education centre or your home.
  • This will be a fun, interactive workshop and will empower all participants to fully understand and be empowered to use this approach to help all children reach their full academic potential
  • a multi-sensory method of teaching spelling and grammar that opens the door to effective writing skills reading for ALL students
  • The JOLLY PHONICS and JOLLY GRAMMAR approaches to literacy will enable ALL students to read, spell and write
  • By attendance at this thought-provoking and practical seminar you will learn:
  • why this approach is so effective
  • multisensory methods to introduce spelling and grammar concepts
  • which grammatical structures to introduce and a suggested order practical, structured strategies to improve spelling skills, grammar and therefore written expression

Victoria Carlton

Victoria Carlton, is the director of an organisation, THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE, and extensively uses JOLLY PHONICS to help West Australian children improve and succeed at literacy skills. She recently travelled to the U.K. to meet the authors and publisher of JOLLY PHONICS and to check on current research in this area.

Victoria is convinced that JOLLY PHONICS is the most effective literacy programme available to teach literacy skills and was recently featured on the TV current affairs program, TODAY TONIGHT, to demonstrate and discuss the approach.

 

Package 1

Package 2

FOS member

$ 398.00 (before 30th Nov)

$ 548.00 (before 30th Nov)

$ 428.00 (1st Dec onwards)

$ 578.00 (1st Dec onwards)

Non-member

$ 428.00 (before 30th Nov)

$ 578.00 (before 30th Nov)

$ 458.00 (1st Dec onwards)

$ 608.00 (1st Dec onwards)
 
 

EARLY BIRD incentive gifts (only until 30th November 2008)

Package 1

Package 2

Can Do Phonic Cubes” Set 1

(worth $ 128.00)

Can Do Phonic Cubes set 1 & 2, and Grammar cubes is included in this package

(worth $536.00)

 

Click HERE to download the registration form.


Games in the Language Classroom

Creating Stories with Children

(Dates not yet finalised)

Did you know that children taught early literacy skills using Games and Storytelling are nearly always well ahead of their chronological age level?

This fun, highly practical very hands-on workshop is for all those people and any teachers or SNOs who are concerned with helping children to reach their full academic potential.

Games in the Language Classroom by Gordon Lewis

A fresh and enjoyable collection of games for children ages 4-11, with guidance on integrating games into the English syllabus, useful classroom language, and classroom management.

Creating stories with Children by Andrew Wright

Children love making stories, orally and together in class. In doing so, they recycle the language they have been learning and use it to create something new.  This rich experience costs nothing and there is no preparation time for the teacher either!  Original ideas & activities help children tell and write stories in English. This encourages creativity, confidence, and fluency and accuracy in spoken and written English. Furthermore, we relate the child, through English, with the world outside the classroom.

Gordon Lewis

Works as a freelance teacher, trainer, trainer, and materials writer, and is also on the committee of the IATEFL Young Learners Special Interest Group where he works as a co-coordinator for events.  In 2002 he organized a large YL Conference in Bonn, Germany.  From 2001 to 2003 he was Director of Instructor Training & Development for Berlitz Kids in Princeton, New Jersey.  He is co-author of Games for Children and author of The Internet & Young Learners & Teenagers, all in the Resource Books for Teachers series published by Oxford University Press (OUP).

Andrew Wright

An author, illustrator, teacher trainer and storyteller. He has published numerous books to support children’s language learning including Creating Stories with Children, Storytelling with Children & Art and Crafts with Children published by OUP. As a teacher trainer, he has worked with teachers in 30 countries and as a storyteller he has worked with approx 50,000 students in the last 15 years.  Andrew’s special interest in the last 15 years has been the role of stories in language teaching.