Course Description
COURSE DESCRIPTION
For educational assistants who work with IMSE-trained teachers
The course is designed for educational assistants working with teachers who have completed IMSE’s Orton-Gillingham Plus (OG+) 30-hour training (released in June 2025). IMSE’s Educational Assistant Course is a hands-on, interactive class that provides an understanding of specific components within IMSE’s OG+ curriculum. This is an 18-hour course, offered both in person and live virtual.
IMSE’s Educational Assistant Course provides educators with the knowledge and resources to support beginning reading instruction (Concepts m–Ending Blends) in the following areas:
- Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting
- Cumulative Review: Three-Part Drill & Vowel Intensive Drill
- Letter Formation
- Decodable Readers
- Phonics: Spelling (Word and Sentence Dictation)
- Irregular Words: Red Words
- Syllable Division/Word Analysis
This Course is For
COURSE IS FOR:
This course is appropriate for instructional support personnel in K–2 general and special education as well as instructional support personnel in Grades 3 and beyond whose students require instruction in word recognition skills (e.g., phonology, decoding, spelling).
Please note: This course is only for instructional support personnel working with teachers who have completed Orton-Gillingham Plus 30-hour training.
Materials Provided
MATERIALS / RESOURCES:
- OG+ Educational Assistant Training Manual
- OG+ Educational Assistant Originals (PDF)
- Small Phoneme/Grapheme Card Pack (m-ending blends) by the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education
- Syllable Division Tent by the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education
- Educational Assistant Practice Packet
- Decodable Readers Fiction Volume 1 m–ending blends (PDF)
- Decodable Readers Fiction Volume 2 m–ending blends (PDF)
- Decodable Readers Nonfiction Volume 1 m–ending blends (PDF)
- Procedural Routine Flipchart
- OG in a Bag (includes items such as a sand tray, mini bag of sand, dry-erase paddle, Desktop Essentials, Red Work booklet, and multisensory screen)
- Checklist for Teacher/Support Staff communication (PDF)
- OG+ Printable Grapheme Picture Card Set (digital access)
- Access to IMSE’s Digital Resource Portal, which will include a sounds video for m-ending blends and a video implementation library with modeled components of IMSE’s methodology
Schedule
The Educational Assistant Course costs $375. It will run from 8:00 am - 3:30 pm for three days. Please plan on six hours of instruction per day.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a pre-register process only. Once training is verified, you will be provided with a private link to register for the actual Educational Assistant Course.
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