Five Day Feuerstein Courses
Basic 1
Course Trainers:
Sharon Eagen
Description:
Young children in primary grades build neural networks for the years ahead of academic learning. Feuerstein’s 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
Basic 2
Course Trainers:
Deena Beard
Description:
The second primary Feuerstein course develops valuable thinking skills for the primary learner via the programs Know and Identify, Compare and Discover 2, Empathy to Action, Think and Learn to Prevent Violence, Tri-Channel Learning and Learn to Ask Questions for Reading Comprehension. Trainees will hone their skill in mediating 28 specific thinking skills in young learners. Feuerstein offers social-emotional skills and cognitive development via these creative programs. For more information and details on prerequisites, click here.
Prerequisites:
The course is open to graduates of FIE Basic-1 courses who have already studied the first five instruments of the FIE Basic program. Applicants are encouraged to read in advance the theoretical material available here.
Course Fee: $995
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 2
Course Trainers:
Cheryl Mullikin, Todd Lambert
Description:
This next course continues the progress of developing 28 thinking skills via five programs: Categorization, Illustrations, Temporal Relations, Instructions, and Family Relations. Each one is unique and further delves human potential as a thinker and a learner. For more information and details on prerequisites, click here.
Prerequisites:
The course is open to graduates of FIE-1 (of 3) courses who already studied the first four instruments of the FIE Program.
Course Fee: $995
Standard 3
Course Trainers:
Vendula Jašková, Todd Lambert
Description:
The final training program of the Standard tools includes more abstract thinking skills such as: Numerical Progressions, Syllogisms, Transitive Relations, Orientation in Space II, and Representational Stencil Design. Ideal for middle school and all the way through college, these five programs create high level problem solvers and critical thinkers. For more information and details on prerequisites, click here.
Prerequisites:
The course is open to graduates of FIE-2 (of 3) courses.
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, Todd Lambert
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
Learning Potential Assessment Device Digital (LPAD-D24) for Primary School
Course Trainers:
Daniela Zamboni
Description:
Understanding how a person learns is one of the greatest challenges educators face. The LPAD-D24 (Learning Propensity Assessment Device – Digital) is an exceptional tool designed to bridge this gap by providing deep insights into students' learning processes with an unmatched level of precision. Participants will learn how to utilize LPAD-D24, interpret its computer-generated reports, and identify each student's unique learning potential and cognitive profile. What sets LPAD-D24 apart? It is attuned to the learning modality preferred by students today – computer screen. It is user-friendly to a teacher who receives
computer-generated reports for each student and for a class as a whole. The system has a number of “clusters” of tasks attuned to different ability levels. In today’s fast-paced world, educators need a tool that is both precise and time-efficient, offering critical insights that would otherwise take much longer to uncover. Come and join us at Shoresh USA 2025, July 20-24, in Chicago!
Prerequisites:
Previous acquaintance with the Feuerstein concept of mediated learning (FIE-1 or FIE Basic-1 course) is required.
Course Fee: $450
Thinking Memory For Mediators
Course Trainers:
Greta Ehlers
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: $900
One Day Workshops
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
Brain on Games
Workshop Trainers:
Todd Lambert, Louis Falik
Description:
Focus on the interaction of parents, teachers, and others in the use of games, puzzles, and toys to stimulate children’s cognitive development and to strengthen or overcome delayed or deficient cognitive functioning in children who present special needs. Introducing how readily available “off the shelf” games, puzzles, and toys can be used in a systematic and focused way to achieve learning enhancement, and how MLE enhances the learning experience, reinforcing learning goals and developing strategies to enhance the child’s learning experience. The workshop will include live demonstrations and opportunities to work in small groups to analyze a game, puzzle, or toy of their own.
Workshop Fee: $225
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
Executive Functioning & Feuerstein
Workshop Trainers:
Rachel Herman, Todd Lambert
Description:
Why do learners with ADHD often struggle with things like planning, organization, time management, and emotional regulation? How do these challenges relate to cognitive functions? How do we help these learners improve focus and develop executive functioning skills? Join Rachel Herman M.A., PCET and Todd Lambert M.S. as we explore these topics and come away with a better understanding of how to best support learners with ADHD at home, in the classroom, or in a therapy session and practice a goal-setting tool that you can start using today!
Workshop Fee: $225
FIE 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
Processing Speed and Cognition/Who Says I Can't!
Workshop Trainers:
Lorri Wilke, Gwen Battle-Lavert
Descriptions:
Processing Speed and Cognition
Cognitive processing speed (PS) has been understudied, compared to other areas of cognition and learning. While experts recognize plasticity in other areas of brain function, some have maintained that PS cannot be targeted and improved beyond innate biological assignment. The view that PS is static negatively impacts the way parents and educators interact with slow processors, and further, it impacts the expectations set for these learners. If, however, PS is recognized as malleable, then educators, clinicians, and parents should intentionally build instructional strategies and mediational techniques around a dynamic view of PS, and IQ in general. This workshop will explore a recent study that compared pre-intervention and post-intervention PS scores from students who participated in FIE and NILD cognitive intervention, along with the therapy protocols that may help to improve PS.
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Workshop Fee: $225