Strengths Gym for Education
Strengths Gym: a course about character building. Strategies to incorporate with classroom and Orton Gillingham Lessons.
Strengths Gym for Education combines current research in positive psychology with best practices in Orton Gillingham instruction.
Adaptable for teaching classrooms and small groups.
Strengths Gym for Education is a 6-Part training course that explores one of the key aspects of positive psychology; we get more of what we focus on. One of the key aims of Strengths Gym is Strength Builders. Students learn to become more aware of strengths in themselves, in other people, and in the world around them. This can lead to increased self-esteem, academic achievement, better teamwork and improved social skills.
OG Academic and the Prospect Centre for Multisensory Learning (Orton-Gillingham) supports struggling students to reach their academic potential, discover who they are as learners and change their outlook about their potential. The Strengths Gym program was successfully integrated into our curriculum in 2016. We are happy to share it with you now.
The Strengths Gym for Education Course is designed for new teachers, Orton-Gillingham practitioners, education assistants, administrators, learning support teachers, home-school instructors and parents.
The course is self-paced. Training video modules are released in sequence immediately once your online registration is completed.
You will have access to the course for one full year from the date of registration, so you may return to the course and review it at your convenience.
See the bottom of the page for more information & instructor bios.
Instructors
Strengths Gym for Education
Dr. Carmel Proctor
Instructor and Co-Author of Strengths Gym
Dr Carmel Proctor is director of the Positive Psychology Research Centre (PPRC). Carmel was awarded her PhD from the School of Psychology, University of Leicester. Carmel also holds an MA in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology from the University of British Columbia, Canada, an MSc in Psychology and Psychotherapy from the Existential Academy, London, and a BA in Psychology from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Carmel has written, co-written, and edited papers, book chapters, and books and is on various academic editorial boards. Carmel is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and co-author of Strengths Gym (PPRC, 2016) a character strengths-based educational course with proven positive impact on child life satisfaction. Carmel is also an accredited psychotherapist with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
Marilyn Wardrop
OG Academic Math Developer and Instructor
Marilyn Wardrop has been involved with teaching children with dyslexia and learning disabilities over 25 years. She has designed and taught Orton Gillingham Multisensory Math Training Courses which combine a unique approach to help teachers be successful teaching students who struggle to learn math or students learning math for the very first time.OG Academic Math Training courses are designed to provide teachers, instructional support staff, Orton-Gillingham practitioners and parents with hands-on, interactive math training that leads to direct success with their math students. Marilyn lives near
Vancouver in Canada but has taught the OG Academic Math Approach
to over 2,000 teachers and educational professionals from the USA, Canada
and around the world from New York to Hong Kong and the Philippines, to Brazil and the Middle East how to apply Orton Gillingham Math.
Marilyn is a Founding Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Therapeutic Tutors (Orton-Gillingham) and Fellow of the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (USA). She was awarded The Dr. and Mrs. Carl L. Kline Award for Outstanding Service in the Field of Dyslexia presented by the International Dyslexia Association on Sept. 26, 2002. In addition to being an international speaker and OG Academic Math instructor, Marilyn is the Executive Director of the Prospect Centre for Multisensory Learning (Orton-Gillingham) and author of the teachers’ resource – A Guide to Success
with Math – based on the Orton Gillingham Approach for Literacy instruction.
Please contact Marilyn anytime for more information.
Canadian Residents?
Do you prefer an invoice in Canadian Funds?
Send a request to info@mathworkshops.com We will send a PayPal invoice that may be paid using your credit or debit card. Please provide your first and last name and the email address for the order.
We want you to be successful. You're here looking for a way to help your students with math difficulties, so we know you are motivated to learn a new approach. Marilyn stands behind her OG Math courses.
