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Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Maths Training
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Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Maths is a two day training course that will provide educators with an understanding of:
- difficulties that students often experience in mathematics, and
- strategies for teaching mathematics using multisensory procedures and manipulatives.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Recognise the problems that students experience in mathematics.
- Identify multisensory maths strategies to address targeted problems in maths.
- Employ the use of manipulatives (base ten) in their math classes to help students with basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), problem solving, time/money and beginning fractions.
- Create and implement maths lessons using multisensory strategies and maths manipulatives.
Extensive resources will be provided, including a maths manipulative kit for each participant to use in the course and in their classrooms.
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Ron YoshimotoRon Yoshimoto
Ron Yoshimoto is a co-director of Orton-Gillingham International and our Master Orton-Gillingham Institute Instructor. Ron has focused his expertise on developing the Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham approach for training teachers in the general and special education environments using Orton-Gillingham, Orton-Gillingham Advanced methodology, preschool literacy/numeracy, focused intervention, reading comprehension strategy (called “Connections”) and multisensory maths.
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Liana McCurryLiana McCurry
As a Churchill Fellowship Recipient Liana has recently travelled to 6 countries to investigate best practices in mathematics education. Her dedication to equity and excellence in education make her a respected and admired figure in Adelaide and beyond.