The Joys and Challenges of Raising Siblings
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Speaker:Jean Schreiber, M.S., is an Early Childhood Educational Consultant. Ms. Schreiber has developed and directed Early Childhood programs and Parenting Centers for over two decades and most recently, served as the Early Childhood Admissions Specialist at Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Ms. Schreiber presents workshops for parents and teachers including the NJ Association of Independent Schools, ATIS, the Jewish Educational Services Early Childhood Conference, the National Association of Education for Young Children.
Are your children caring and supportive of each other or do they frequently bicker, call each other names and fight? Do you feel overwhelmed and guilty? This workshop will explore the underpinnings of sibling rivalry, help parents respond in effective ways to meet their own needs as well as their children's needs, and give practical advice for common scenarios.
Stern Math: Structural Arithmetic Program
Part I: July 21 and July 22, 2008
Beginning concepts, addition, subtraction, problem-solving, money
A Session: 9:00 am-12:00 pm
B Session: 1:30 pm-4:30 pm
(Please select A or B on your enrollment form)
Fee: $195
Part II: July 23 and July 24, 2008
Time, multiplication, division, problem-solving, fractions
A Session: 9:00 am-12:00 pm
B Session: 1:30 pm-4:30 pm
(Please select A or B on your enrollment form)
Fee: $195
Instructors: Temple Ary, M.A., and KC GenzmerThe Structural Arithmetic Program, developed and taught by Catherine and Margaret Stern for over six decades, is a renowned standard for effective mathematics instruction. It equips teachers with a multi-sensory, structured, systematic and thorough program that gives children a strong foundation for attaining higher skill levels.
Structural Arithmetic guides children beginning their math education to discover mathematical concepts through manipulatives, develop computational facilities and enhance problem-solving abilities.
This workshop series includes demonstrations of Structural Arithmetic materials and activities including games, videotape viewing and hands-on practice.
Because Parkside only offers these Stern Math workshops once during the year and enrollment is limited to 20 attendees for each session, we urge early registration.
For more information on Stern Math, please visit www.sternmath.com.
Visual Supports: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Monday July 30, 2008
9:00 am-11:30 am
Fee: $95
Instructors: Leslie Thorne, M.A. and Albina Miller, M.A., Founding Directors, The Parkside School
The systematic use of visual supports in the classroom and at home promotes a child's language and learning. This interactive workshop will focus on strategies that help children calm their bodies, attend, follow directions, carry out routines, organize their time, complete jobs, resolve conflicts and increase their interpersonal intelligences. It is designed for regular and special educators and parents.
Constable Reading Program
Wednesday, July 30 and Thursday, July 31
9:00 am-3:30 pm
Fee: $350
**May be eligible for continuing education credits**
Instructors: Catherine M. Constable, M. Ed., CCC-SP, Co-Director of the Rye Learning Center and Leslie Thorne, M.A., Founding Director, The Parkside School
This two day workshop presents a reading instruction program based on speech science and information processing. The program acknowledges the importance of phonological representation in learning to read and is used as a total literacy program from pre-school through middle elementary school children. The program differs from many well known "phonics based" reading programs in important and systematic ways. The Constable Reading Program specifies a language for instruction, as well as materials for fostering learner beliefs, and language learning competence.
The Constable Program seeks to increase student knowledge of relationships between speech production, perception and reading by identifying activities for facilitating information processing. The program also distinguishes contemporary "phonemic awareness" activities that place information processing demands on children, from activities which take into account information processing constraints. The program presents the essential components of emergent literacy experience and provides activities for promoting such experience.
Other topics covered include: narrative structure, language form, vowels, letter sound relations, language of reading, book and print concepts, phonological representation, and word retrieval.
To download a registration form, click here.
If you would like to contact us about the Parkside Institute, you can do so by calling us at (212) 721-8888 x5155 or emailing us here.