Five Day Feuerstein Courses
We regret to announce that the following courses will no longer be available at Shoresh this year: CognitiveKey Level 2, Cognitive Enrichment Level 2, Cognitive Enrichment Level 3, and LPAD-D24
CognitiveKey; Level 1 (Formerly: FIE Basic 1)
Course Trainers:
Sharon Eagen
Description:
Young children in primary grades build neural networks for the years ahead of academic learning. Feuerstein’s CognitiveKey; Level 1 (FKA: FIE Basic 1) course offers teachers and parents the methods and six programs for the important thinking skills needed by young scholars. Programs include Organization of Dots (visual-motor skills) Unit to Group (pre-math), Orientation in Space (spatial concepts), Identifying Emotions (social-emotional skills), and Compare and Discover the Absurd (language of basic concepts). Trainees will learn the 28 thinking skills foundational to all learning as well as the method of mediation. A valuable companion to direct instruction, mediation develops a child’s human potential as a learner and autonomous thinker. For more information and details on prerequisites, click here.
Prerequisites:
The course is open to university students, educators, psychologists, clinicians, and other professionals interested in cognitive intervention. Applicants are encouraged to read in advance the theoretical material available here.
Course Fee: $995
CognitiveEnrichment; Level 1 (Formerly: FIE Standard 1)
Course Trainers:
Lori Horner, Catalina Murillo
Description:
Feuerstein developed the world’s premier program for developing thinking skills in students from age 10 to adults. Although education has done a good job of showing what to learn, Feuerstein develops the how to learn. This five day professional development will offer teachers, counselors, clinicians, and parents training in mediated learning, 28 thinking skills, and four ingeniously created programs: Organization of Dots, Comparisons, Analytic Perception, and Orientation in Space. Many people take this training to help others and discover they are transformed themselves in how they think and learn. For more information and details on prerequisites, click here.
Prerequisites:
The course is open to university students, educators, psychologists, clinicians, and other professionals interested in cognitive intervention. Applicants are encouraged to read in advance the theoretical material available here.
Course Fee: $995
Standard Trainers 1
Course Trainers:
Meir Ben-Hur, Jeanne Zehr
Description:
Prerequisites:
Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Trainers 1 (FIE Trainers-1) is the first of two required courses for those seeking to become an Instrumental Enrichment Training Professional. This course is open to graduates of the FIE-3 (of 3) who can submit evidence of at least 100 hours of FIE work for at least one academic year after completion of their FIE study, using at least 10 of the IE instruments. Additionally, potential participants must submit a standard report of FIE program implementation, two lesson plans, and any articles or media materials if applicable. The Evidence of Practice will be professionally assessed at the Feuerstein Institute. In addition, the candidates for the FIE Trainers 1 course are expected to meet all CPD requirements up until acceptance to the Trainers Level 1 and provide two letters of recommendation from a trainer they trained under in the past, or from their FIE supervisor. All the above materials should be submitted to Feuerstein Institute before May 1, 2025. Feuerstein Institute reserves the right to reject candidature based on committee members’ opinions that the candidate has not met the established requirements for acceptance.
Course Fee: $1500
FIE Tactile
Course Trainers:
Lorri Wilke
Description:
This popular Feuerstein program is ideal for several populations of learners. Older children and adults who struggle with impulse control, attention disorders, visualization, or even the visually impaired can make remarkable gains. Mediators learn how to guide learners through exercises that require a blindfold while exploring raised lines that create images and shapes while challenged to visualize. Learners find these exercises unique and inspiring. For more information and details on prerequisites, click here.
Prerequisites:
The course is open to university students, educators, psychologists, clinicians, and other professionals interested in cognitive intervention. Applicants are encouraged to read in advance the theoretical material available here.
Course Fee: $995
Thinking Memory For Mediators
Course Trainers:
Sharon Eagen
Description:
The Feuerstein method offers this invaluable tool for senior citizens who wish to keep or improve their memory skills. Designed for a ten week program for seniors to gain practical memory techniques. For more information and details on prerequisites, click here.
Prerequisites:
The course participants are expected to have previous training in FIE 1 or FIE Basic-1.
Course Fee: $800
One Day Workshops
We regret to announce that the following workshop will no longer be available at Shoresh this year: Processing Speed and Cognition
Behind the Thinking of Attention Disorder
Workshop Trainers:
Daniela Zamboni, Vicki Snyder
Description:
This workshop introduces a fresh perspective on attention disorder by examining the cognitive roots of the condition, rather than just focusing on its effects. While attention disorders often present similar challenges—such as difficulties with focus, planning, and organization—this approach highlights the significant cognitive differences that can impact how we design interventions and support students in the classroom and home.
•How attention disorder shows itself cognitively.
•Three distinct presentations of attention disorder: main characteristics, points of struggle, potential and focusing intervention.
•Guidance in identifying the three distinct presentations of attention disorder.
•Tools for intervention strategies, including Feuerstein Instruments.
Workshop Fee: $200
Coglink: Linking Cognition to High-Stakes Testing
Workshop Trainers:
Meir Ben-Hur
Description:
These days all countries, even those with the most efficient educational systems are concerned with relatively poor results that their students demonstrate in such high-stakes international exams as PISA and TIMMS. The problem is that school curricula are still organized around the disciplinary content knowledge while high-stakes exams require much more flexible problem-solving strategies and the ability to apply them to everyday life situations. The Feuerstein approach proved to be effective in developing exactly such flexible problem-solving strategies. Now these strategies have been linked directly to a sample of high-stakes assessment tasks.
Seminar participants will learn how to use selected tasks of the Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment program (FIE-1) for developing students’ problem-solving skills which can be linked directly to the solution of the high-stakes exam tasks.
The participants will receive 4 CPD credits for attending this seminar.
Workshop Fee: $225
CognitiveEnrichment (FKA: FIE Standard) in the Classroom
Workshop Trainers:
James Hubbard, Shelly Goering
Description:
Join Dr. James Hubbard and Shelly Goering in this full day workshop to discover best practices for implementing the Feuerstien method in a sustainable way for many years! The students at Intercity Baptist have been producing amazing results with the methods of mediation, cognitive functions, and the Feuerstein tools. Near Detroit, Michigan, their private Christian school has sustained Feuerstein for over 15 years with every teacher trained and every student in grades K-8 receiving Feuerstein lessons, 2 times a week! They will share how they launched and how they keep it going. A workshop to not miss!
Workshop Fee: $225