Inviting all therapists, health professionals, facilitators, educators, teachers and parents. Applicable to pre-primary, primary and high school learners
What is Metacognition? What is Metacognitive Support?
Thinking about our thinking…. who is teaching our children how to think?
Join guest speaker and expert in this field Estelle Brettenny *
Understanding the critical role of wellbeing as a teacher/therapist to aid the wellbeing and learning process of a child.
What is the learning process?
- How to bridge the gap between weak executive functions and academic/learning demands using metacognitive strategies and tools.
- Thinking Maps.
- Learning how to enhance a self-regulated learning process when the academic demands increase.
CPD POINTS APPLIED FOR (HPCSA and AHPCSA)
Saturday 12 March 2016. 8:30-3:00 pm (registration @ 8am)
Venue: The Private Room, Kyalami JHB
Early bird: (pay before 29 Feb): R710pp
Individual rate: (pay after 29 Feb): R785pp
Group rate: (4 or more): R680pp
CPD DVD: R750 (each DVD accompanied by one CPD questionnaire)
Additional CPD questionnaires: R350 per person/ DVD
(printed course notes, snacks, light lunch and candy station included)
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think” ~Albert Einstein
About the presenter:
Estelle Brettenny, B.OT., M.OT., PDME., is an Occupational Therapist in private practice and an independent trainer and consultant with 36 years of clinical experience. For the past 16 years she has been specializing in meta-cognitive therapeutic intervention for older primary school learners, high school learners and adult learners. She is an experienced trainer in the mediation of thinking skills via the Cognitive Enrichment Advantage Approach (CEA) as well as Thinking Maps and has been trained in various other approaches for developing thinking skills. She has been a board member of The International Association for Cognitive Education (IACESA) for more than 16 years and is the Immediate Past President of IACESA as well as a founding member of Thinking Schools South Africa (TSSA). She has developed a keen interest and passion for Functional Medicine since 2015 due to personal health problems.
About the workshop:
A professional (and personal) journey of explicit cognitive education for more than two decades has highlighted the following aspects to the presenter:
- There are a growing number of learners that struggle academically or lack effective skills to cope academically;
- A large percentage of learners receive extra lessons, go for therapies, have tutors, see psychologists, or take medication;
- Parents spend large sums of money on “extra help” BUT many parents cannot afford to do this;
- Learners often depend on extra lessons/tutors and became passive learners instead of developing independent learning skills, better thinking skills and strategies;
- Educators and Therapists do not always have “growth mind-sets”, do not always believe that they can make a difference or do not equip learners with better skills;
- There are many hidden context, curriculum/task and learning material barriers that block thinking and learning;
- Many educators, tutors, parents and therapists lack understanding, knowledge and skills re the ‘hidden needs of learning’ and how to support learners re these needs;
- Limited, if any, attention is given to the development of processes & strategies for effective learning and thinking to occur and thousands of learners leave school without effective metacognitive skills;
- Often parents, educators and therapists suffer from ‘burn-out’ or develop diseases in the process of coping with a career and a personal life without ‘pausing’ and thinking about their own thinking, their own health and their own lives.
This presentation workshop will aim to provide participants with an understanding of what metacognition is, how to develop metacognitive skills and how to provide metacognitive support. We can all make a contribution towards/or change the way in which children of all ages think and learn; the way our teachers teach; the way our parents support their children at home; the way therapists treat and in the way we manage ourselves and our own health for optimal functioning so that we can improve the health and “broken brains” of our children.
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