Instructors

Marjory J. Roth, M.Ed.
Head of School, Fellow, Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators; Board Member, IMSLEC; Director,  Orton Multisensory Structured Language Training Program, and a training site for AOGPE membership.

Amy Rominger, M.A.
Fellow-in-Training, Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators; Instructor of Teaching, IMSLEC; Associate Director, Orton Multisensory Structured Language Training Program.

Description:
Advanced phonology with Anglo Saxon, Latin, and Greek affixes and Roots, Latin ligatures, and connectives, and Greek combining forms. Vocabulary development, teaching advanced lesson plans, matching student academic learning profiles to diagnostic and prescriptive teaching, case management and professional communication, teaching comprehension techniques for silent reading and oral lectures, teaching a systematic, multi-sensory, structural writing process, the effect of accent placement upon decoding and encoding.                     

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Write diagnostic, prescriptive lesson plans to match students' needs.
• Know the spellings, pronunciations and meanings of at least 25
  prefixes and 25 roots
• Know the part of speech a suffix creates in a derived word
• Teach accent placement in multi-syllabic words
• Communicate student needs to other professionals (case management)
  
• Develop student profiles and case studies
  

Textbook/Materials: C. Wilson Anderson, Jr., Intermediate Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes; C. Wilson Anderson, Jr., Essential Roots, Essential Prefixes and Essential Suffixes. Phonic Cards for all roots and affixes.  Judith R. Birsh, Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, 2nd Edition and workbook. Materials from The Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators; Louisa Cook Moats, Speech to Print.

This original, authentic, diagnostic-prescriptive and linguistic teacher education Institute satisfies 50 of the 100 hours of the course work requirements for the Certified Level membership in The Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (AOGPE) and 50 of the 90 hours of the course work requirements for the Teaching level, International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC). You will need to complete another Institute II, Part II to complete the coursework requirements for both accrediting groups. This Institute offers 5.0 renewal credits for NC teacher licensure. Ten observations during a supervised practicum, required readings, and case study reports are necessary prior to application to AOGPE at this level or to the Greenhills MSL Director for Certification as a Trainer of Teachers.  The practicum is available at Greenhills School or by videotape.

There will be visiting speakers, lectures, and hands-on activities during the Institute.

For inquiries contact Marjory Roth, Fellow/AOGPE, Board member IMSLEC at ph. 336-924-4908 or e-mail greenhills@windstream.net , fax at 336.924.8081 or mail to Greenhills School,1360 Lyndale Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27106.