Jolly Learning workshop
The Victoria Carlton approach to teaching literacy
(Tuesday & Wednesday, 10 & 11 April 2012)

Workshops fee from only:
FOS member: $398.00
Non-member: $448.00

This is our most popular workshop! It will teach you to help children succeed with literacy using an effective teaching approach (multisensory methods) and will certainly help you to introduce spelling and grammar concepts in a very fun way.

This 2-day workshop is conducted by Victoria Carlton. She is the director for The International Centre for Excellence and uses Jolly Phonics extensively. It has been a huge success in helping all her students succeed at all the literacy levels.

For participants who sign up for Package 1, you will receive free gifts worth $128.00
For participants who sign up for Package 2, you receive an extremely valuable gift worth $425.90

 

Early Bird Bonus
Save on the registration fee. Only for bookings received before 7th April 2012

Download the registration form to sign-up now
Download this brochure for more details of the workshop

 

Still not sure whether you want to sign up?
Click on this video link to view a short clip of this workshop.

 

Phonics is FUN: How click & learn can enhance your teaching through IT
...with Dr. Mark Ponisi

(Mid-2012)

Join Dr Mark in this interactive workshop where he shares his experience and teaches you how to use these strategies effectively in your classroom & home

Phonics is Fun! shares with teachers and parents innovative techniques for helping beginners learn to read quickly and with greater accuracy using phonics. In this seminar, we will discover together effective management methods that can generate enthusiasm for English in students by increasing attention behaviour and creating an enjoyable learning environment. Because children are becoming computer literate at earlier ages, Mark will share his insights in exploring technology as a vital and growing tool for self-directed learning

Download this brochure for more details of the workshop.

 

Approach to Teaching Literacy skills series of workshops
conducted by one of Australia's top experts... Victoria Carlton

How can we make READING and WRITING so exciting that ALL children will love to read and write and attain high standards?

This Loving Literacy workshop consists of two half-day sessions. It was developed especially for both the parent and teacher who want to make sure their children reach their full potential. There will be plenty of hands-on activities to make sure you are fully engaged!

The workshops are interactive, fun-filled and will show you practical ways to ensure your children reach their full literacy potential. As well as learning some of the most effective ways to help children read and write at high standards, you will be able to view "state of the art" literacy materials and ask questions to enable you to help children LOVE LITERACY.

The first time this workshop was conducted in Singapore, we had an overwhelming demand for both sessions. It was oversubscribed twice over with a full classroom of over 40 people each! So don't delay your decision to participate.

Workshop 1: Making Phonics & Phonemic Awarenss exciting!
Ensuring all children master word recognition and fluency

 

Workshop 2: Making Spelling, Grammar & Writing exciting!
Helping children to develop a love of writing whilst mastering the basic writing skills

 

Workshop 3: Jolly Phonics
Tuesday, 10th April 2012
Ensuring all children master reading using this multi-sensory Phonics programme from England

 

Workshop 4: Jolly Grammar
Wednesday, 11th April 2012
Helping children develop a love of grammar, and master the basic writing skills

 

Workshop 5: Jolly Music
Saturday, 14th April 2012
Teaching music skills in a fun & effective way with Jolly Music, the Zoltan Kodaly approach

 

Workshop 6: Victoria Carlton's Mastery Teaching Strategies
Monday, 16th April 2012
This program has a balanced blend of theory & research, practical strategies using Victoria's very innovative and effective approaches to helping children achieve their maximum potential

 

Workshop 7: Introduction to the STAR (student's at risk) program
This program is targeted for teacher's that are seeking the best knowledge on how to deal with difficult students or children with learning difficulties.

 

Download the brochure for workshops 1and 2 of this Loving Literacy program.
Download the brochure for workshops 3, 4 and 5 of this Loving Literacy program.

 

Fitzroy Literacy

The Official Teacher's Certification Course
2012

A comprehensive two-day training course, a program designed to educate teachers with the knowledge and necessary tools to ensure you can get the most from your students, be it kindergarten, primary school or university. The Fitzroy Workshop will equip you with the know-how, from elementary to the advanced level.

The two-day workshop will be conducted by Jeremy O'Carroll, Director of Training, S.E.A and a founding student of the Fitzroy Community School. Jeremy will provide his wealth of experience on the amazingly successful Fitzroy Literacy Program.

His 2-day workshop is designed in an easy digestible teaching units. Primarily for teachers, but is also suited to enthusiastic parents.

Find out more about this workshop. click here

Download the registration form to sign-up now

 

Rebecca Isbell's workshops

Stories and Songs that Light up the Brain
New research has identified the power of music to activate the learning and engagement of young children. The power of stories, told or read, have been recognized in the field of language and literacy for many years. Now, discover new ways of including both music and literature in an early childhood classroom. Learn new songs and stories that will encourage children to participate, learn, and enjoy the experiences. Come to collect new ideas, interesting songs, and stories that teach morals that can last for a lifetime.

 

Creating an Amazing Environment that will Nurture Learning
The classroom you and your children live in every day has a tremendous impact on the learning and attitudes that are developed in this space. How can these environments become a place where children are learning, involved, and emotionally supported? Investigate the elements of the environment that are important and ways to maximise their effectiveness. Learn how both large and small groups can be used effectively. See before and after of “real” early childhood classrooms that have been renovated to be wonderful places for both children and their teachers. Discover ways to make your classroom an amazing place for learning.

Professional Development for Teachers

Mastery Practitioner Training Stage 1

A thought provoking course and practical seminar for professionals of education, from Nursery to P2 and any staff working with children with learning difficulties. Using Jolly Phonics and Jolly Grammar approaches to literacy will enable all students to read, spell and write.

The Mastery Practitioner Training course (stage 1) presented by Victoria Carlton will educate you on the CREAM approach using systematic multi-sensory methods to open the door to better English for all students.

The workshop (stage 1), also provides you with the opportunity to attend an optional session, a valuable and rewarding practical session at a children's workshop. Participants are invited to complete a written assessment and those successful candidates will be awarded a certificate.

The Mastery Practitioner Training course (stage 1) will revise all components of Jolly Learning and the use of all interactive programs (CD,DVD, Jolly Songs, Jolly Jingles). In short, this course will teach oral language strategies to underpin literacy development, comprehension strategies for fiction and non-fiction text, increase self-esteem, creating positive teaching environments, motivation for children, individual learning plans, assessment for children, children with learning difficulties, puppetry magic to enhance literacy and games to bring Jolly Learning to life and much much more!

Find out more about the Mastery Practitioner Training course

Note: participants must have completed the Jolly Learning workshop before attending Mastery Stage 1

Mastery Practitioner Training Stage 2

More details to follow later this year.

Find out more about the Mastery Practitioner Training course

Note: participants must have completed the Jolly Learning workshop before attending Mastery Stage 2

Mastery Practitioner Training Stage 3

The modules can be taken individually or combined to achieve Mastery Practitioner Stage 3.

EQ4KIDZ Training
This will equip you to fully understand the impact of EQ on your life, how it impacts you as an educator and how you can raise the EQ of all the children in your care. This 2 day intensive course will teach you about all aspects of emotional intelligence and provide you with a facilitator manual so you can provide workshops for children.
Enrollment in Mastery 3 will also give you a license to use the program for 12 months with full support from Victoria and her staff.

Download the brochure for this module.

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Brain Stimulation (22 September 2011)
This course will ensure your children are stimulated and helped to reach their highest potential. You will learn many exercises drawn from actual research into the brain and effective learning strategies. You will also be shown how to integrate these exercises into the learning processes and how to provide brain-friendly lessons and learning environment. Further details about EQ4KIDZ will be published here soon.

Download the brochure for this module.

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Empowering Young Writers: All kids can write
Empowering Young Writers course leads you through the stages of writing development and shows you practical, systematic ways to improve written expression for children of all ages. It provides you with many innovative written expression teaching tools and strategies.

Children will learn to get the words to flow like water!

Download the brochure for this module.

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Literacy through Literature
Literacy through Literature course is a very practical, intensive course that shows you how to use games and real literature to improve comprehension, reading speed and fluency and imbue children with a life-long love of reading. The course takes you through all parts of a child’s “reading journey” and provides you with games and techniques to accelerate the process and ensure deep comprehension occurs.

Download the brochure for this module

 

Requirements for Mastery Practitioner Training (Stage 3)

• Open to all participants
• All the modules in this stage can be attended separately and at different time frames
• All the modules need to be attended to qualify for Mastery Stage 3 Certificate
• The above modules (All Kids Can Write, Brain Stimulation, EQ4KIDZ and All Kids Can read) can be taken individually or combined to achieve Mastery Practitioner Stage 3
• There is no requirement to have attended Mastery 1 or 2
• Mastery Practitioner Training Stage 3 consists of four modules

To sign up now, download the registration form

 

Maureen Pollard's workshops
Teaching children to read, write and spell with confidence
(Tuesday, 5th June 2012 - 9.30am until 3.30pm)

FOS member: $188.00
Non-member: $218.00

As teachers, we want to turn our vision of every child reading fluently and writing into reality - how can we do this?

Little Learners Love Literacy is an engaging, multi-sensory early literacy program, which explicitly teaches the skills of phonemic awareness (segmenting and blending), alphabetic knowledge and handwriting; the important foundation skills for literacy success.

This hands-on workshop will give you an understanding of why and how to teach phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. You will leave this session with phonemic awareness activities to use immediately, knowing how to do a Chitter Chatter chant, Speed sounds, Ally talk, robot walk, singing Milo songs and Super Spelling. Little Learners is child friendly and teacher friendly - a brilliant combination for success.

Teachers will leave this workshop with ideas that they can implement immediately into their classroom.
Maureen's workshops helps teachers to work 'smarter', not 'harder'.

 

To sign up now, download the registration form

Find out more about this workshop

 

Rebecca Chan's workshops
Join Rebecca in her interactive workshops where she will share from her vast experience
and teach you how to use her strategies effectively in your classroom and at home.

Can we use Children's Drawing as a Lesson Planning tool?
Saturday 18th February 2012 (10am until 1pm)

Most children we observed draw spontaneously and profusely when not disturbed by external demands.

Children engage in drawing just like we do in writing, as adults. Drawing is an expressive mode of communication for young children. It is the beginning of literacy in reading and writing. In drawing, the child engages in many cognitive processes to encode and decode signs and symbols to make representations of meanings consisting of thoughts, feelings, experiences and observations of the environment. They have to master the understanding of referential function of symbols and signs as well as to make interpretation and perspective taking in the process of drawing.

The objective of the workshop is to share with you how mainstream children's drawings can be an alternative tool of assessment (from a developmental perspective) to inform teaching and learning; in particular, in curriculum planning. We shall investigate the prior knowledge and drawing structures that young children used in drawings to construct meaning. This is based on my current research of 89 child-artists and 534 drawings collated in from 5 preschools in Singapore. You are encouraged to bring along a couple of children's drawings to contribute to the discussion.

FOS member: $68.00
Non-member: $98.00

Click here if you want to register for Rebecca's Workshop.

 

How to analyse your child's drawings
(No dates confirmed yet)
Why do children draw? Do you seek to understand what is expressed in your child’s drawings? Drawing is a mental activity that most children engaged spontaneously when pen, pencil, markers and papers are accessible to them. Are you aware that children learn through drawing? But what learning is taking place? The workshop seeks answers to these questions by investigating children’s thinking processes embedded in the drawings. Come and find out more about how to read your child’s drawings as a means to extend his/her learning in factual, conceptual, and procedural knowledge necessary for academic excellence.

Find out more about this workshop

 

Rebecca Chan is a part-time lecturer in the psychology of art with the Visual & Performing Arts department, National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU), Singapore. She lectures at Diploma to Honors degree programmes for trainee teachers at primary & secondary levels. She is also an esteemed associate lecturer with SEED Institute, a leading Early Childhood Education Teacher Training Institute in Singapore. She is an art practitioner with many years of teaching, leadership, and research experiences. She was invited by the National Arts Council (NAC, Singapore) to be the Head Researcher of a pilot research programme: Preschool Arts Education in July 2005 - March 2006. Rebecca Chan obtained her Master of Arts in Education with Goldsmiths College, University of London, in England. She has a deep understanding of educational psychology and pedagogy

 

Jolly MUSIC workshop **NEW**
(Saturday 14th April 2012 - 9am until 1:30pm)

FOS member: $168.00
Non-member: $198.00

 

This is a new music training course to welcome non-specialists.
Our amazing new workshop is specially featured in the MUSIC EDUCATION SINGAPORE magazine. Click here for more details.

Teach music skills in a fun and effective way with Jolly Music, a relatively new programme to the Singapore market.
This is the first and only official workshop to be conducted in Singapore.

• This award winning program empowers ALL teachers to become teachers of music.
• Improve the musical intelligence of all your students!
• The program is based on the Kodaly method and comes with every lesson preprepared, and supported with CDs of music so even non-singing teachers will get results!

  Find out more about this workshop
  To sign up now, download the registration form

   

"All Kids Can Read & Write" Children's Workshop

(for children aged between 3 - 9)

This is a workshop not to miss! Our "All Kids Can Read & Write" workshops are organised to meet the demands of all parents and teachers who are concerned with helping their children reach their full academic potential.

There will be regular workshops conducted for children and this will guide your child to become a more confident, skilled reader and writer.

The course is aimed at children from 3 to 9 years of age. Our class sizes are purposely limited so that we ensure to give personal attention and guidance to each child.

The "All Kids Can Read & Write" children's workshop will help children perform at a level, at least one-year ahead of their academic year level.

The "All Kids Can Read & Write" children's workshop is based on the highly acclaimed JOLLY PHONICS and JOLLY GRAMMAR programs and includes workbooks, interactive white-board, computer programs and creative hands-on teaching strategies for successful literacy practices. Children will reap the benefits of better phonemic awareness, word sounds, blending skills, decoding, sight words, improved punctuation, grammar skills, phonological knowledge of writing fluently and cohesively. Help young children to become successful with English Literacy

Here's a letter from Victoria Carlton to all parents.

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OUR AFFILIATE CHILDREN'S CENTRE

For subsequent follow up sessions or to Sign-up for all our Children's courses, please visit:

Kidz Literacy Cove,
13 Lichfield Road,
Singapore 556833
Tel: 97800786

EQ4Families Workshop

(for children aged between 5 - 12)
This workshop allows both child and parent to participate in this active 2-day workshop.

This course is designed to help children:

• Increase self-esteem
• Understand and manage their feelings
• Develop strategies to handle frustration and anger
• Develop "I CAN" attitude
• Establish healthy boundaries and become assertive
• Become happier with a more positive attitude
• Develop resilience
• Deal with bullies (available as a Single module for schools)
• Improve social skills and form appropriate friendships
• Increase personal motivation
• Form goals and develop the ability to "follow-through"
• Participation in this course definitely improves academic outcomes

Click here for more information about this workshop

 

Give Children A Head-Start!

 

 

Special Needs Workshops
with our UK specialist Noreen Boyle

These workshops are for both parents or teachers that wish to look at strategies that can be used to help Children reach their full potential.

 

Challenging Behaviour & Moderate Learning Difficulties
There appears to be a growing concern in kindergartens and schools that challenging behaviour is on the increase, particularly with boys? Sign up for this workshop to find out why and learn many other ways to overcome them.

Inclusion of Children with Learning Difficulties
Children with learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, Language disorders, autism spectrum disorder and global delay such as Down Syndrome, etc. are all discussed in this lively and informative workshop.

 

BrainGym & Social Interaction Group
A fun and physical way to motivate children to help them learn. Using the research premise that all learning begins with movement, you will learn how to implement and integrate these teachings into your own settings.

 

Positive Parenting
Parents will learn about early child development in all areas and how they are related. More importantly, how that understanding affects parenting choices.

 

Workshops or In-House Training Sessions at Schools
Session would be from 3-4 hrs and include learning activities & interaction.
Also available to facilitate or mentor, so that the teacher will be able to apply her suggestions or individual education/behaviour plan

Small Group work sessions: Social Interaction Groups or Circles of Confidence
Children would be offered a range of activities including "BrainGym", Developmental Movement Play, Listening Skills, Waiting and Turn-taking Skills, Opportunity to practice their Language Skills, Making choices, Singing and Signing, whilst having fun

Alphabet Zoo workshop with Julia Gabriel

This is a lively workshop, a journey through the Alphabet Zoo with such delightful characters like, Ellie the Elephant, Kara Koala and Uncle Ultrasaurus. You can have fun with your children and introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and their phonemic sounds. Using the enchanting illustrations of the Alphabet Zoo and sing along CD in this workshop you will bring the alphabet alive for any young child.

A 3-hour workshop presented by Julia Gabriel who has written and recorded educational television programmes for the Ministry of Education in Singapore. Julia is a well accomplished storyteller, performer and lecture and holds seminars for all ages and backgrounds.

Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase "The Alphabet Zoo" character puppets at a special rate, that's a set of 26 animal puppets!

For details about this workshop, please call 62560226.

 

Storytelling & Puppetry Workshop
with Kiran Shah

A popular and lively workshop for any adult involved with young children as well as for the child within you. So come to have fun and take back a bagful of easy-to-implement ideas.

Looking for ways to make language and literacy learning enjoyable for young children?

Join Kiran Shah for a fun-filled interactive workshop on Storytelling and working with puppets.

Learn to tell a story without memorisation and ways to engage your audience with confidence through the right story and various storytelling techniques. Participants will be introduced to stories and resources from around the world and led gently through the process of learning to tell and craft a story.

For details about this workshop, please call 62560226.

 

::: Attention All Parents :::
Are you concerned about your child's academic progress? We CAN help

We provide a comprehensive educational assessment with a written report of your child's preferred learning style and this holistic approach empowers you to help your child to reach their potential. The full assessment is administered by Victoria Carlton, the Director of 'The International Centre for Excellence' in Australia.

Help your child to "reach for the stars", we will determine speech and oral language development, learning strengths and weaknesses, learning style, ability to concentrate, visual and auditory memory levels, emotional intelligence and much more. Victoria can also help you to choose appropriate books, games and learning tools after the assessment.

Download this brochure for complete assessment details

Email: info@september21.com.sg or call Chew Yeh on 6256 0226 for booking dates