DAY 1

  9:00-11:00    Theoretical Introduction to Dynamic Assessment (DA)

11:00-11:15    Coffee Break

11:15-12:30    Demonstration of DA

12:30-13:30    Lunch Break

13:30-14:30    The Children’s Analogical Thinking Modifiability (CATM); Test-Construction and Closed Analogies Version

14:30-15:30    The Children’s Inferential Thinking Modifiability (CITM) Test

15:30-15:45    Break

15:45-16:30    The Children’s Seriational Thinking Modifiability (CSTM) Test

 DAY 2

9:00-10:00    The Children’s Conceptual and Perceptual Analogical Modifiability (CCPAM) test

10:00-11:00    Demonstration of DA

11:00-11:15     Coffee Break

11:15-13:30    The Cognitive Modifiability Battery (CMB): Assessment and Intervention

13:30-14:30    Lunch Break

14:30-15:30    The Seria-Think Instrument

15:30-16:30    The Analogical Modifiability Puzzle Test (AMPT)

Nyborg’s Concept Teaching Model (CTM) can be closely linked to Vygotsky’s statement, in which he spoke about words’ function: “In the beginning, only the nominative function exists; and semantically, only the objective reference, signification independent of naming, and meaning independent of reference, appear later, and develop along the paths we have attempted to trace and describe.”  (Vygotsky, L. S.  Thought and Language  MIT 1962, p 130).
The CTM GRUNNLAGET takes us step by step from naming, through necessary discrimination and discoveries of similarities to the verbalized generalizations “they are similar in…”. This generalization is a requirement for “meaning independent of referent”.

In the workshop you will become familiar with those three stages of conceptual learning, using a lot of concrete materials of the kind that we have around us in a normal life. You will understand how it provides the child with abilities for analyses and abstractions, and you will take part in discussions about how all this is related to the basic skills of reading, writing, mathematics, and social skills. There will also be examples of how these abilities influence emotional status.

Workshop schedule:

DAY 1

 9:00-10:00      What happens in our brain when we learn? Theoretical background

10:00-11:00    Basic conceptual systems (BCS) – what and why

11:00-11:15   Break

11:15-13:00    CTM – demonstration and group work with the – colour and shape. Creating a basis for analysis.

13:00-14:00    Lunch Break

14:00-15:00    CTM – demonstration and group work – position and its application in   analyzing letters

15:00-16:15    CTM – demonstration and group work – size, a conceptual system with relative meaning

16:15-16:30    Discussion.  

DAY 2

9:00-10:00   CTM – demonstration and group work – position, placement. Creating a basis for orientation in space.

10:00-11:00  Analytic coding processes, basis for flexibility and directed attention

11:00-11:15  Coffee Break

11:15-13:00  CTM related to reading and writing

13:00-14:00   Lunch Break

14:00-15:30   CTM related to mathematics

15:30-16:00   Discussion