POAC-NOVA Workshop on Direct Instruction Training By Faith Fisher, M. Ed.,

[Guest guest]

POAC-NoVA Presents Direct Instruction Training: Reading Mastery I -

Teaching Children With Autism To Read presented by Faith Fisher, M. Ed.

*Limited Space Available*

When: May 4, 2007 – 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

May 5, 2007 – 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

(Must attend both sessions)

Audience: Regular & Special Education Teachers, Therapists & Parents

Direct Instruction : Pioneered by Professor Siegfried Engelmann in the

1960s, Direct Instruction (DI) is a method of instruction that is

explicit, intensive, and teacher-directed. This method is based on a

careful analysis of different content areas to determine the sequence of

skills and concepts needed to master a wide variety of academic

subjects. These methods are very much in line with ABA/ VB

methodologies.

The Direct Instruction approach teaches children increasingly complex

skills and strategies by using certain principles. First, all concepts

are broken into sub skills—small component skills that are taught

one—by—one. Second, each skill is taught so that students fully

understand it. Then, each skill is practiced until it is completely

mastered. In this way, students learn to generalize and apply strategies

that have been taught. The result for students is not only the ability

to apply their information, skills, and strategies in real-life

situations, but also greater confidence in their own ability to learn.

The Workshop

Reading Mastery I :The sessions focuses on teaching beginning reading

skills using Reading Mastery I and Fast Cycle I. Participants learn the

basic information and skills needed to implement these

programs—placing, accelerating, scheduling, grouping, and presenting

lessons to students who are not yet readers. Participants will learn and

practice presentation techniques for word attack, story reading,

independent work, and comprehension activities. This direct instruction

reading program is recommended by VA and many other state departments of

education for teaching reading to special need kids and has a research

base, which is required as is stated in the IDEA rules and regulations.

About Faith Fisher, M. Ed.,

Faith Fisher is the Verbal Behavior Network's lead consultant in

Direct Instruction. She has been an administrator, supervisor, and

teacher of the handicapped since 1975. Over the past 28 years she has

led numerous staff development trainings and currently serves as the

Supervisor of Special Services for the Camden City Board of Education

and as an Independent Consultant and Manager for Direct Instruction. In

that role she has implemented management controls, staff development,

teacher observations, coaching, and performance evaluations in the

following programs: Reading Mastery I-VI, Distar Language I-III,

Corrective Reading A-C, Reasoning & Writing A-F, Distar Arithmetic,

Connecting Math Concepts A-F, Learning Through Literature, Readers and

Writers

Dates and Time: May 4, 2007 – 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Registration

starts at 5:30pm on May 4th, 2007)

May 5, 2007 – 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Location: Devonshire Center Cost: $210.00

2831 Graham Road

Falls Church, VA 22042

Please visit www.poac-nova <http://www.poac-nova/> for registration

information.