Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Programme
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What is FIE?
FIE is the outstanding cognitive intervention programme that significantly changes outcome for Learning Disabled children.
FIE is the most researched and cognitive awareness programmes available. The significant amount of research and published outcomes is very compelling.
The basic principle of the Feuerstein Method is that all of us – regardless of our age, disability or socio-economic background – have the ability to significantly improve our level of cognitive functioning and increase our IQ.
By identifying and targetting specific cognitive weaknesses, we can intervene and strengthen the weak cognitive capacities that affect our learning. We can ‘re-design’ our brains.
Feuerstein transforms the lives of
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Academically Marginalized
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Learning Disabled
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Brain Injured
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Gifted and Elderly
Feuerstein Method is:
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Increasing the IQ of their students
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Increasing the learning capacity of the Learning Disabled and returning them to mainstream classrooms, never to need Learning Support again
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Teaching the Brain Injured to function without Special Education support
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Instead of measuring knowledge, the ability to learn is evaluated first. Intelligence is not fixed, but able to be developed
For more than 50 years Feuerstein’s theories and applied systems have been implemented in both clinical and classroom
settings internationally, with more than 80 countries applying his work. Feuerstein’s theory on the malleability of intelligence has led to more than 2,000 scientific research studies and countless case studies with various learning populations.
Reuven Feuerstein, born 1921 in Romania is an Israeli clinical, developmental, and cognitive psychologist, renowned for his theory of intelligence which states “it is not ‘fixed’, but rather modifiable”.
The idea behind this now globally-accepted theory is that intelligence can be modified through mediated interventions. Feuerstein is recognized for his lifelong work in developing the theories and applied systems of Structural Cognitive Modifiability.
These interlocked practices provide students with the skills and tools to systematically develop their cognitive functions to build meta-cognition.
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment – Basic is the educational application of Feuerstein’s cognitive development programs. The FIE-B programs consist for the most part of structured paper-and-pencil exercises.
Designed over many years and proven significantly effective in a school and clinical setting, FIE-B became available to teachers worldwide twelve years ago. This program enables educators to enhance cognitive functions, facilitate the development of social emotional awareness, and teach basic concepts.
The US and Australian governments recognize FEI as critical to LD children and fund this programme into many of their state school systems.
The tasks are designed for a wide range of entry-level abilities, starting at Pre-Kindergarten.
The FIE program corrects deficiencies in fundamental thinking skills and provide students with the concepts, skills, and strategies necessary to function as independent learners. In short, learn how to learn.
FIE allows for the teacher to take the role of the mediator (coach) in a manner that allows the student to develop more competent thinking skills and therefore be more engaged in the process of thinking and not passive during the learning experience. The FIE instruments are deliberately free of specific subject matter and the tasks are intended to be transferable to all areas of life.
This program has been used in over sixteen languages and seventy countries to enhance the cognitive abilities of students with learning disabilities, behavior issues, gifted, english language learners, as well as regular ed students.
More than one thousand studies conducted around the world with young students and adults affirm the early success of Instrumental Enrichment. Most recently, in a study conducted in Taunton, Massachusetts, middle schools showed significant gains on standardized tests in reading, math, social studies, and science. In addition to student achievement, there were significant changes in teachers related to greater motivation and enhanced thinking skills.
Effects have been well documented that students continue to exhibit achievement gains after the program has ended, unlike many other intervention programs. After IE training, students’ potential continues to grow because, according to Feuerstein, there have been changes in their basic cognitive structures that are prerequisites to learning and thinking (Theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability).
The International Renewal Institute is Chicago is one of seven authorized FIE training centers in the United States. Multiple case studies are published and peer-reviewed analyzing how FIE impacts school-aged children.
http://www.iriinc.us/resources/case-studies/.
Today Feuerstein is the founder and director of the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP) in Jerusalem, Israel.
The FIE program is delivered in NZ by Carol McCracken : mccrackencarol@gmail.com
Fundamentals:
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The programme is delivered via 13 written cognitive exercises
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If delivered privately : 1x hour, twice weekly
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If delivered in schools : 1x hour daily, 5:1 ratio
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Two years is the average time it takes for a student to complete the programme and return to mainstream classroom, no longer needing learning support
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If delivered within school – $120 per hour (5:1 ratio)
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If delivered privately – $50 – $120 per hour
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Teacher Facilitator training : Melbourne, 4 days @ circa $1,500
For more information on the FIE Program see the website below or email Anne Gaze on Contact Page of this website : anne.gaze@gaze.co.nz