Webinars

Duration: 90 minutes

This webinar is designed to assist professionals working with children to recognize anxiety in children that may require intervention.

Coaching Children and Parents To Cope and Relate Differently To School Anxiety

Presenter: Lynne Siqueland, PhD

This webinar is designed to assist professionals working with children in school settings or around academic tasks to recognize anxiety in children that may require intervention.

Duration: 60 minutes

This webinar will examine reading from a brain-based educational perspective and discuss current literacy trends in the United States

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: An Introduction to the FAR

Presenter: Steven Feifer, D.Ed., NCSP

What are the subtypes of dyslexia?
How do we differentiate them from other reading disorders?
This webinar will examine reading from a brain-based educational perspective and discuss current literacy trends in the United States.

Duration: 60 minutes

Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help Your Students Master Tough Subjects

Presenter: Barbara Oakley, PhD

Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help Your Students Master Tough Subjects

Presenter: Barbara Oakley

Teach your students why it’s perfectly normal to not understand something difficult the first time they encounter it. Help them to leverage their knowledge of how their brain works to do better on tests and to inoculate themselves against feelings of frustration and failure when something seems difficult to learn. Through brain imaging, share with your students what the patterns of expertise look like in the brain . Practice simple tools to tackle procrastination. Reframe struggles with bad memory and slow processing as surprising advantages.

Duration: 91 minutes

This webinar will provide a review of the essential skills in conducting assessments.

Conducting Assessment: Best Practices for Educational Therapists

Presenter: Marion Marshall, MS, BCET, FAET

This webinar will provide a review of the essential skills in conducting assessments. It assumes that the viewer has taken basic assessment courses. It will answer key questions such as: How does one select a battery of tests? What tests are ETs allowed to use? What are the guidelines for administration? What are the contributions of formal and informal tests? How does one perform an analysis of test scores? Exemplary resources for further study will be provided.

Duration: 60 minutes

In this webinar Board Certified Educational Therapist Jone Bycel will explain how educational therapists, teachers, and allied professionals can model and apply strategies to develop skills for goal setting, self-monitoring, and better comprehension.

Intentional Learning: Teaching Students to be Self-directed Learners

Presenter: Jone Bycel, MS, BCET, FAET

Intentional learners are motivated, self-directed learners who actively and strategically tackle complex material with attention to what’s working and what’s not. They develop habits of mind that result in greater understanding, retention, and application of knowledge.

So how do we develop intentional learning in our students?

In this webinar Board Certified Educational Therapist Jone Bycel will explain how educational therapists, teachers, and allied professionals can model and apply strategies to develop skills for goal setting, self-monitoring, and better comprehension.

Learning Outcomes

• develop thoughtful activities that enhance students’ motivation to learn, engagement, and responsibility for learning
• describe three experiences that afford students goal-attainment opportunities
• explain mental resources that assist students in attaining their goals

Biography

Jone Bycel, MS, BCET, FAET is a board certified educational therapist in private practice in Dallas, Texas. She has been in practice for over thirty years. She has served as a special education teacher, curriculum coordinator, educational director, dyslexia specialist, and principal and is a past president of the Dallas Branch of the International Dyslexia Association. Ms. Bycel has served on the national Board of Directors of the Association of Educational Therapists, the Advisory Board of the Dallas Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, and as an expert consultant to ldonline.org. She was previously named Special Educator of the year by both the Richardson LDA Chapter and the Park Cities LDA Chapter. The Dallas Branch of the International Dyslexia Association bestowed the Excellence in Education Award to (on?) her. Ms. Bycel frequently presents at local and national conferences. She is the author of Book-Bytes Bookmarks for High School Students and was an instructor for online classes for the Educational Therapy Certificate Program.