 Expanding success for struggling students
Bring research-based best practices for struggling students to your institution by engaging the professional development experts at the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training (LCIRT). Landmark College has been setting the standard for serving students with learning disabilities and AD/HD for 25 years, but LCIRT's strategies benefit all learners, not just those with learning disabilities. Your struggling students can learn better using our field-tested, highly practical strategies. LCIRT offers interactive, customized workshops tailored to the needs of your institution. You can deepen faculty learning and systemic change by scheduling a series of workshops throughout the year. LCIRT workshops incorporate universal design principles that improve student achievement, retention and completion, using proven tools and techniques that enhance student confidence.
Who should take our workshops
Our interactive, highly engaging workshops and seminars are designed for professionals at the postsecondary and secondary level.
- Instructors, department chairs and supervisors
- Disability Office directors and staff, including learning specialists and tutors
- Academic advisors and counselors
- Special education coordinators, supervisors, and tutors
- Technology directors and specialists
- Curriculum coordinators
- Administrators, principals, professional development coordinators
- Counselors, mentors in schools and youth support agencies
- Workforce training coordinators and instructors
Some of our popular workshops
Universal Design: Best Practices for All Learners
Universal Design offers an inclusive framework for planning instruction that anticipates a diversity of learners and supports differentiation. When educators incorporate these evidence-based, effective techniques, all students benefit. This workshop presents best practices for college and high school educators, based on research and on Landmark College's decades of hands-on, practical experience.
Metacognition & Coaching for Students with AD/HD and Related Issues
Understand how Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) and Executive Functioning impairments can impact various stages of student development. Learn how to integrate coaching practices and receive examples of activities that promote student metacognition, self-regulation and academic success.
Introduction to Learning Disabilities
Successful programs for struggling students rest on a solid understanding of the nature and characteristics of learning disabilities and attention disorders and how these impact performance, skills and behaviors. This interactive session provides an overview of terms, definitions, and characteristics, as well as practical advice for improving services and instruction.
Supporting Academic Reading, Writing and Study Skills
Reading, writing, and their supportive study skills (note-taking, summarizing, test preparation) are the foundation for student success in all disciplines and in the workforce. Learn to anticipate the obstacles faced by struggling students and how to design and deliver instruction that is systematic, multisensory, and updated to reflect current research. This workshop can be delivered as a one day overview or a series that focuses on each area in more depth.
Assistive Technology for Struggling Students
Assistive Technology can spell the difference between success and struggle when used in the context of thoughtful pedagogy and learning strategies. This workshop provides an overview of technology that supports reading, writing and study skills and provides a framework for introducing technologies as strategic tools for struggling learners. Hands-on sessions can be scheduled on request.
Online Course: Supporting Effective Literacy Education for Content Teachers (SELECT)
SELECT is an innovative, cost efficient way to deliver professional development to schools that is sustained, collegial, and evidencebased. It helps schools build their capacity to train future teachers by empowering site-based Literacy Leaders to mentor colleagues.
SELECT offers an online graduate level course to teachers, grades 4 – 12, showing them how to deliver research-based reading strategies in the content areas. SELECT helps overcome the isolation of typical classrooms through collaboration with teachers across schools, districts, and states.
Read more about SELECT
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Previous Regional Workshops and Institutes
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