Virtual Training Courses for Individuals
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Cost: $175.00 USD (Eligible for 7 CEs)
NOTE: This course is intended for individuals, not groups (see Group Training page).
CUBED™-3 Virtual Training Course
Description: The CUBED™-3 asynchronous virtual training course, developed by LDG’s implementation and dissemination professionals, provides you with explicit instruction on the use, administration, and scoring of the CUBED™-3 – an innovative, comprehensive family of literacy assessments that accurately, reliably, and efficiently measure all the critical dimensions of literacy: language, decoding and their product, reading comprehension. The course will cover all the subtests of the CUBED™-3 which include the Narrative Language Measures (NLM) Listening and Reading, and the Dynamic Decoding Measures (DDM). You will also learn how the CUBED™-3 fits into a multitiered system of language supports (MTSLS), understand how to select and when to administer specific measures, practice scoring language samples with REAL student videos, and interpret CUBED™-3 results to inform instruction and intervention. Read more >
Cost: $150.00 USD (Eligible for 5 CEs)
NOTE: This course is intended for individuals, not groups (see Group Training page).
Intro to Story Champs® Virtual Training Course
Description: This 5-hour asynchronous virtual training will provide new or veteran Story Champs® users with essential knowledge in the basics of administration and rationales for why the program works.
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Story Champs® program ingredients and organization of materials
- How to select a lesson plan and story
- Principles of effective instruction using Story Champs® large group, small group, and individual lesson plans
- How to use Add On lessons
- How to differentiate instruction for diverse groups and modify lessons for individual students
- Knowing when to change a lesson plan and story level
Cost: $175.00 USD (Eligible for 7 CEs)
NOTE: This course is intended for individuals, so only 1 registration per order (we offer Group Training).
Advanced Story Champs® Virtual Training Course
Description: This 7-hour asynchronous virtual training presented by Dr. Megan Kirby, Director of Dissemination and Implementation Programs, will provide you with knowledge of how to implement the more advanced Story Champs® lessons, focusing on Enhanced Plus and Advanced story structures (Story Book Levels C-J) and lessons that target complex language (i.e., causal and temporal subordinate clauses and modifiers), vocabulary, fictional generation, writing, and expository retells. Dr. Kirby gives goal writing tips and modules include numerous videos of implementation with real students. You also get to keep the workbook and presentation slide handouts for future reference (train others!) and get special access to extra resources to help you practice new skills!
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Selecting and using Story Champs® Add On lesson plans
- Teaching complex academic language: Causal & temporal subordinate clauses and modifiers
- Moving from Enhanced (Level B) to Enhanced Plus (Level c) story structure
- Explicit and inferential vocabulary instruction (Spot the Sparkle game)
- Teaching written personal and fictional narratives (i.e., text generation)
- Assessing narrative writing using the CUBED-3 NLM FLOWCHART
- Teaching information retell, information writing, and Tier 3 vocabulary
Cost: $50.00 USD (Eligible for 3 CEs)
NOTE: This course is intended for individuals, not groups (see Group Training page).
PEARL™ Virtual Training Course
Description: In this 3-hour virtual asynchronous PEARL™ training course, LDG’s Dissemination and Implementation professionals will provide explicit instruction in use of the cutting-edge PreK-kindergarten dyslexia and developmental language screener. You will learn the rationale behind PEARL™ procedures, see administration videos, and have opportunities to practice scoring with real student videos.
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Principles of dynamic assessment and how it differs from static assessment
- Research behind PEARL™ (validity and reliability evidence) and how it can predict future reading and language difficulties with over 80% sensitivity and specificity
- PEARL™ delivery timeline recommendations
- How to administer and score the PEARL™ subtests: Dynamic Assessment of Decoding, Dynamic Assessment of Language
- Understanding and scoring student responsiveness scales
- How to interpret PEARL™ assessment results and make intervention recommendations
Cost: $150.00 USD (Eligible for 5.5 CEs)
NOTE: This course is intended for individuals, not groups. Only 1 person can register per order (we offer Group Training).
DYMOND™ Virtual Training Course
Description:
In this 5.5-hour asynchronous online training course, LDG’s implementation and dissemination professionals will provide explicit instruction in use of the DYMOND™, a diagnostic assessment that accurately identifies language disorder and dyslexia for K-8th grade students (ages 5;0-14;5). Course materials include video demonstrations, practice activities, slides, and handouts.
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Principles of dynamic assessment and how it differs from static assessments
- Research behind DYMOND™ and how it can accurately identify reading and language disorders with at least 95% sensitivity and 91% specificity
- Administration, scoring, and interpretation of results for the 4 DYMOND™ subtests: Dynamic Assessment of Narrative Discourse (DAND), Dynamic Assessment of Inferential Word Learning (DAIWL), Dynamic Assessment of Decoding (DAD), and Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)
- Understanding and scoring student responsiveness
- DYMOND assessment interpretation and intervention recommendations (*sample report provided)
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Courses designed by experienced professionals
LDG’s virtual training courses were developed by implementation and dissemination professionals with research and practice experience in the use of LDG assessment and intervention tools. Courses are designed to provide a personalized learning experience based on the principles of adult learning. For small or large group training, click here.
Live or asynchronous learning formats
Live participants will have plenty of opportunities to ask questions, get input, and practice. Our asynchronous courses provide active student responding and practice activities. All course registrants have access to LDG’s implementation support team, in addition to access to content for 30-90 calendar days.
Receive a Certification of Completion
Upon completion of the training course, attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion (may be eligible for CE credits).