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Dear Colleague,
APRICOT, Inc. is happy to announce its 2009-2010 Workshop Series!
We always take registrations up to and including the first day of a class, but when you register at least one week prior to the start of a class, the registration fee for the class will be reduced by $25. To pre-register for a course, please email your name, mailing address and phone number to: apricot@spiritone.com. All classes will be held in the Portland Metro Area. The exact location for each class will be determined one week prior to the class start date.
Payments? If you want to pay at the door, we will accept cash, checks or Visa or MasterCard credit cards. If you want to pre-pay your registration fee, please mail your check payable to: APRICOT, Inc., P.O. Box 230138, Tigard, OR 97281-0138. Purchase orders can be mailed to this address, too.
Questions? Please send your questions to us by email.
Sincerely, Mabel M. Brown, M.A. APRICOT, Inc. 503-670-1740
Date: September 19, 2009 (Saturday) Course No.: 0907 Location: Portland, Oregon Level: Beginning
Times: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Fee: $115 (save $25 when preregistered by September 11 )
Title: Teaching to Visual Thinkers "Seeing is learning"
Presenter: Ellyn Arwood, Ed.D. Audience: teachers, paraprofessionals, support specialists, administrators, parents
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to provide the participants with an introduction to teaching students who think with a visual cognition. A description of the learning system will be provided, followed by an overview of how a learner develops thinking from seeing. Participants will be provided a variety of teaching methods which will help translate the auditory classroom into a visual classroom. These methods are called Viconic (the study of visual language characteristics) Language Methods. This workshop is for anyone who wants the basic foundation for how to make the classroom more inclusive.
Date: October 24, 2009 (Saturday) Course No.: 0908 Location: Portland, Oregon Level: Intermediate
Fee: $115 (save $25 when preregistered by October 16 )
Title: The Language of Pictures "Seeing is not knowing."
Presenter: Ellyn Arwood, Ed.D.
Audience: teachers, paraprofessionals, support specialists, administrators, parents
Description: Not all visuals work the same way. This workshop will provide the participant with the opportunity to learn about how visuals mean different things based on the levels of visuals matched against the students' cognitive, social, and language levels. Numerous visuals will be provided to demonstrate how to assess the students' needs for various types of visuals. This workshop will be based on the book Visual Thinking Strategies: The Language of Pictures by Arwood, E.; Kaulitz, C.; and Brown, M.
Key Concepts: Language, visual teaching, teaching methods; language assessment and intervention
Learner Outcomes: Participants will be able to 1) determine the social, cognitive, and language level for pictured visuals; and 2) assess the level of visual needed for specific students
Date: November 13-14, 2009 (Friday and Saturday) Course No.: 0909 Location: Portland, Oregon Level-Advanced
Fee: $175 (save $25 when preregistered by November 6)
Title: Cultural-Linguistic Characteristics of English: “Thinking and knowing”
Presenter: Ellyn Arwood, Ed.D. Audience: participants should have at least one workshop or class from Ellyn Lucas Arwood, and/or a background in the study of language (teachers, paraprofessionals, support specialists, administrators, parents)
Description: Most educators who study language are able to describe English in terms of its structures such as parts of speech, or its units of study such as morphemes or phonemes. But, most educators are unaware of the cognitive basis of English that results in linguistic functions that are cultural in meaning. For example, English, the only global language, is an auditory, alphabetic, time-based, fusional but isolated, low contextual, and modulated/inflectional language. These linguistic functions represent the thinking of the speakers of the language. This thinking supports a cultural-linguistic bias in education and the workplace. The purpose of this workshop is to 1) describe the importance of understanding the cultural-linguistic characteristics of English; 2) explain the relationship between the linguistic function and the underlying bias within the educational setting; and 3) demonstrate how limited language function results in restricted structure of language along with limited cognitive development.
Key Concepts: Linguistic function; language characteristics, cultural-linguistic bias in education; assessment of language function
Learner Outcomes: The participants will be able to 1) analyze a language sample to test for restricted language function; 2) explain a weak and a strong test for grammar as the basis to understanding linguistic function; 3) describe the characteristics of English, an auditory language; and 4) describe the mismatch between the cultural assumptions in education that are based on the properties of English and the way that most student are able to learn.
Date: January 23, 2010 (Saturday)
Course No.: 1001 Location: Portland, Oregon Level: Beginning
Fee: $115 (save $25 when preregistered by January 15, 2010)
Title: A Social Form of Communication: “Behavior is not discipline” Note: Even though the January and February classes are designed to be piggy-backed on each other, participants may take either class alone.
Presenter: Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D.
Audience: Teachers, paraprofessionals, support specialists, administrators, parents
Description: The field of education has systematically separated behavior from academic subject matter. And, although this separation is good for educators to learn to see a child’s performance separate from the child’s who; the separation has resulted in an emphasis or de-emphasis on behavior, separate from what the child knows. For example, when a child misbehaves, one solution is to “work on the behavior.” Many different types of methods are used to “get rid of unwanted behavior” while increasing the “target behavior.” Most of these methods are grounded in the principles of behaviorism. However, behavior represents the child’s literal knowledge. So, as the child learns about the language of behavior, the child develops more knowledge which not only improves behavior but changes the way the child is able to think. This workshop will describe with numerous examples how to understand behavior as a social form of communication.
Key Concepts: Behavior, discipline, language, communication, intervention, behaviorism
Learner Outcomes: The participants will be able to 1) describe how behavior represents communication; 2) explain how assigning meaning to behavior improves behavior and increase social development
Date: February 27, 2010 (Saturday)
Course No.: 1002 Location: Portland, Oregon Level: Intermediate
Times: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fee: $115 (save $25 when preregistered by February 19, 2010)
Title: Pro-social Behavior is a Cognitive Function of Language: “Learning to be socially competent” Note: Even though the January and February classes are designed to be piggy-backed on each other, participants may take either class alone.
Audience: Teachers, paraprofessionals, support specialists, administrators, and parents Description: As much as 65% of a school’s population functions with anti-social behavior. To change this large percentage of the population from anti-social behavior to pro-social behavior, parents and educators must be able to recognize their own levels of social development. Understanding one’s own social developmental level also means that the participant must be able to recognize the difference between self-esteem and self-concept from social, cognitive, and language perspectives. Numerous examples will be provided about how to “see” pro-social behavior in a culture that recognizes anti-social behavior as immaturity, eccentric, bored, not feeling well, didn’t mean to, independent, “that’s the way it is” behavior. Emphasis will be placed on how to develop social competence, the ability to initiate and maintain healthy relationships.
Key Concepts: Language, behavior, pro-social behavior, anti-social behavior, assigning meaning, social perspectives
Learner Outcomes: The participants will be able to 1) explain the anti-social to pro-social continuum of development; and 2) identify anti-social behavior and then assign language to set pro-social limits and boundaries.
Date: April 24, 2010 (Saturday)
Course No.: 1003 Location: Portland, Oregon Level: Advanced
Fee: $115 (save $25 when preregistered by April 16, 2010) Title: The Paradigm Shift: “From teaching to learning”
Presenters: Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D. and Alyse Rostamizadeh, M.Ed.
Audience: Teachers, paraprofessionals, support specialists, administrators, and parents
Description: Emphasis on teaching as a form of conveying knowledge has resulted in students who imitate the patterns of the teacher but without higher order thinking or learning. This workshop will present an entire paradigm shift that includes not only the shift in philosophy from teaching to learning but also the shift in theory from a two-tiered western psychological model to a four-tiered Neuro-Semantic Language Learning model that is brain based. Recent brain research emphasizes the synergy of the brain which supports the shift from a reductionist approach to teaching to a pragmaticist or a whole is greater than the parts approach. Participants will be provided with a graphic model that shows the cultural shift along with educational implications.
Key Concepts: Brain-based education; neuro-education; paradigm shift from teaching to learning; Neuro-Semantic Language Learning Theory
Learner Outcomes: Participants will be able to explain a paradigm shift in the dominant culture in three ways: 1) from teaching to learning; 2) from parts to whole; and 3) from skills to concepts
General information about the workshops:
REGISTRATION PROCESS:
1. Click here to go to a separate web page that you can print out using the "FILE / PRINT" feature on your web browser. Your printer will print out a brief form which can be mailed to APRICOT, Inc. If you have any technical difficulty printing a copy of the sign-up form, please make some simple notes about the information required on the form when you see it displayed as a web page. Then reconstruct the form on a blank piece of paper and fill in the sign-up information which will be needed by APRICOT, Inc. to process your registration request.
2. Enclose a check, money order or *purchase order* payable to APRICOT, Inc.
3. Send form and payment to: APRICOT, Inc., P.O. Box 230138, Tigard, OR, 97281-0138
4. Registration questions? Telephone: 503-670-1740
*Participants using purchase orders: When registering less than two weeks before the start of class, please telephone first to find out the best way to reserve your place in the class. Please have your purchase order number ready for the business manager.
*Airline Tickets: Please telephone our office before purchasing airline tickets, since classes are canceled when there is insufficient enrollment.
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1. Classes are held in the Portland Metropolitan area. 2. Lecture times are individually posted for each course. 3. Registration is 30 minutes prior to the posted lecture time. 4. Certificates of attendance are provided. 5. Optional ASHA Continuing Education Units may be available for an additional fee ($12.50). Register and pay for CEUs on the first day of class. 6. Optional WACECH (Washington Continuing Education Clock Hours) may be available for an additional fee of $2 per clock hour. Register and pay for CEUs on the first day of class. 7. Cancellations received two weeks prior to class will receive a full refund minus a $10 per person processing charge. 8. Enrollment is determined on a first-come, first-serve basis. If minimum enrollment is not met, two weeks prior to class date, class will be cancelled and your fee(s) will be refunded. Preregistration is necessary for classes to make. 9. Your cancelled check is your acknowledgment. 10. Confirmation letters are sent out one week prior to the class start date.
ASHA Continuing Education Registry .Statement of Approval APRICOT, Inc. is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. About each activity: 1. Teaching to Visual Thinkers, is offered for .5 CEUs (Beginning level, Professional area). 2. The Language of Pictures, is offered for .5 CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area). 3. Cultural-Linguistic Characteristics of English, is offered for 1.0 CEUs (Advanced level, Professional area). 4. A Social Form of Communication, is offered for .5 CEUs (Beginning level, Professional area). 5.Pro-social Behavior is a Cognitive Function of Language, is offered for .5 CEUs (Intermediate, Professional area). 6. The Paradigm Shift, is offered for .5 CEUs (Advanced level, Professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.
An annual ASHA CE Registry fee is required to register ASHA CEUs. ASHA CE Registry fees are paid by the participant directly to the ASHA National Office. The annual ASHA CE Registry fee allows registration of an unlimited number of ASHA CEUs for the calendar year. Contact the ASHA CE staff at 800-498-2071, ext. 4219 for CE Registry fee subscription information.
Please note that a $3 per class fee is charged by APRICOT, Inc. to process CEU materials. ASHA does not charge a per class fee--only the annual fee.
Instructional Personnel
Ellyn Arwood, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, is a full professor at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon and has a national and international reputation for scholarship in the areas of language, cognition, learning, development and special needs. During the past 36 years Dr. Arwood has been on faculty at a number of universities teaching and providing hands-on clinical experiences with all populations of communicatively impaired children and adults. She is the author of four textbooks and one monograph about the concept of pragmaticism applied to communication disorders, learning, and using language to learn.
Did you know that your school district can save 10% on registration fees? When 10 or more people attend the same class, and are registered together as a group on one purchase order, the total amount due is reduced by 10%.
Did you know that private presentations for individual schools can be arranged through APRICOT, Inc.? Telephone 503-670-1740 for more information.
DATA REQUESTS:
It has come to our attention that many of you have been collecting data on the progress of your students. Some of this data is in anecdotal form and some is in a descriptive observational form. Other data have been counted, charted, graphed, etc. If you have collected some student data that showcase what you do and you would like to share your data with other professionals, Dr. Arwood is willing to compile the data and disseminate it.
The purpose of such dissemination is to provide a research base for using language to change behavior both academically and socially.
If you have questions about sharing your data please e-mail us at: APRICOT@spiritone.com
If you want to send your data directly to us, please mail it to:
APRICOT, Inc. P.O. Box 230138, Tigard, OR, 97281-0138