Other Courses

Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading

Course Length: one day

The Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading workshop provides participants with a powerful supplemental strategy for decoding that can be used in conjunction with any conventional reading program. It uses a system of 44 hand signs that prompt associations between letters or word chunks and the sounds they represent. This is a strategy that children enjoy, and appeals to reluctant readers, boys, excessively active children, and those with learning disabilities as well as the average reader. Readers see the letter, sign the sound and say the sound at the same time; this multi-sensory combination provides success to readers who have not succeeded before. Tucker Signs provide the mental model that children of poverty need in order to succeed in reading, while giving the observer insight into what is going on in the reader's mind. This strategy moves the responsibility of decoding unfamiliar words from the teacher to the child. It can be used with students of any age who read between kindergarten and third-grade level.

Audience: Primary teachers and secondary reading, language arts, or special education teachers only.

Pre-Requisites: Training Agreement.

Bridges Out of Poverty - Day 1

This seminar gives both the social service provider and the community member key lessons in dealing with individuals from poverty.
Topics include increasing awareness of the differences in economic cultures, how those differences affect opportunities for success, developing an action plan to improve services to clients and improving retention rates for new employees from poverty.

Audience: This seminar is designed for employers, community organizations, law enforcement, counselors, health care and social service providers.

Pre-Requisites: None.

Applying Bridges Concepts - Day 2

Learn strategies that build relationships and improve outcomes!
This workshop is an extension of the Bridges Out of Poverty (Day One) seminar. The content of the first day is typically extended into a second day to allow for more discussion and interaction. In this workshop participants will learn more about language experience, cognitive issues, and barriers to change.

Participants will learn how to use mental models to communicate effectively, and to assist clients from poverty to learn quickly, explore options, and develop future stories. Participants will also explore the skills of mediation, relationship building, and mentoring.

Pre-Requisites: Bridges out of Poverty Day 1