OGA CERTIFIED LEVEL COURSEWORK
Riverside School’s Certified Workshops
Riverside School hosts a variety of OGA Certified-Level Workshops each year for their instructors. These workshops are designed for O-G practitioners with Associate-Level certification, however, many who have completed Associate level coursework or have other O-G training have found these sessions to be pertinent to their practice.
We invite you to peruse the “Beyond Associate” workshops that are available on our online learning platform, Thinkific.
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For a small fee, you will receive access to the live recorded session and various downloadable resources.
After completing a short quiz at the end, you can access a signed professional development certificate noting the number of OGA CEU’s and hours you earned.
Certified Workshop Instructor: Cynthia Davis
Cynthia Davis has been an instructor of students with special needs since 1991. As a Fellow with the Orton Gillingham Academy (OGA), she has provided OGA Associate and Certified Level training to teachers at Riverside School and beyond since 2014. Cynthia has a B.A. in Developmental Psychology from Duke University and a Master’s Degree in Special Education from UNC-Greensboro. She has presented at a variety of conferences: Virginia Branch IDA (2016, 2018, 2019), OGA (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019), and she was the keynote speaker at the 2019 William & Mary Structured Literacy Conference.
Here is a list of our “Beyond Associate” sessions and a description of each. We will be adding to this list as the year progresses.
Coming Soon: Vowel Consonant-e: From Primary to Advanced: Learn to prescriptively introduce the V-e syllable pattern to a variety of learners, to teach tricky concepts in an emotionally sound manner, and to understand intermediate and advanced V-e concepts. Enjoy many downloadable teacher resources!
Interpreting Psycho-Educational Evaluations To Individualize Instruction Part 1: Learn how to read and understand Psycho-Educational evaluations and how to interpret the scores. Begin to explore the WISC-V indices and learn how to individualize O-G instruction based on students’ particular strengths or weaknesses in each.
Interpreting Psycho-Educational Evaluations To Individualize Instruction Part 2: Review reading Psycho-Educational evaluations and how to interpret the scores. Finish exploring the five WISC-V indices and learn how to individualize O-G instruction based on students’ particular strengths or weaknesses in each.
Pacing Orton-Gillingham Instruction: Pacing O-G instruction is an art and part of the learned “approach”. In this session we will explore diagnostic and prescriptive practices to help us grow in our ability to pace instruction.
Phonology and Fluency: Research and Implications for Practice: Articles about phonology and fluency from the The Reading League Journal September/October 2020 are explored, including the instructional implications for O-G Practitioners.
Consonant-le Concepts: Primary to Advanced: Use the O-G Approach to teach these Consonant-le concepts: syllabication, common student errors, grammar connections, “outlaws”, and spelling generalizations for /kƏl/.
The Brain Basis of Dyslexia: This 2-hour course explains the regions of the brain that typically vary in those with dyslexia and how reading development is compromised by each variance. Instructional implications and signs and symptoms of dyslexia are also discussed.
Oral Reading in the O-G Lesson: Discover the science behind how the brain processes language and why the O-G approach works. Learn to be prescriptive and achieve long-term reading goals by addressing individual needs and providing instructional and emotionally sound passages.
Role of Syntax in Reading Comprehension: Explore the role of syntax in written language and how understanding that role can bridge the gap between decoding and comprehending. Learn and practice strategies to effectively teach syntax as part of the O-G lesson.
Reading and the Brain: How is the brain of a reader with dyslexia different? What does this mean for instruction? Find out the answers to these questions in this session.