Training
The IE Basic 1 program consists of 5 days of training, 5 hours a day (three classes of one and a half hours and two 15-minute breaks between them) see the date on the ad.
Instrumental Enrichment Basic
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Basic (FIE Basic) is a process-oriented cognitive intervention program, designed to provide young learners with the foundational skills necessary for efficient learning. Consisting of 11 specially designed instruments or ‘tools’ FIE Basic is a series of tasks and activities that may be mediated in a classroom, group, or individual setting. Each series focuses on a different cognitive strategy, helping to develop the children’s general basic concepts, emerging cognitive functions (such as self-regulation, generalization, and conceptualization), and intrinsic motivation.
Several of the instruments feature colorful, cartoon-like illustrations that reflect a young child’s world. Some tasks evoke a child’s need to correct illogical or incongruent narratives. All of the instruments range in complexity, challenging children to experience new information and generate novel solutions and ideas.
How it works
FIE Basic is the essential blueprint for early childhood and elementary school education. Consisting of specially designed tasks, the FIE Basic program creates systematic, persistent, and structured conditions to engage children in problem-solving by developing their ability to understand and elaborate information. Children learn to identify, isolate, and practice the application of necessary concepts and efficient cognitive behaviors, facilitating the development of their social-emotional reasoning and adapting functions. The program provides them with a firm foundation to become skillful, analytic learners.
FIE Basic is distinct from other programs in that it develops both the child’s fundamental cognitive and learning skills as well as their social and emotional abilities. Thought-provoking and creative, FIE Basic offers instruction in interpersonal topics such as:
- Turn empathy into constructive action
- Learn how to prevent violence
- Infer, act and behave with thoughtful intelligence
FIE Basic provides young children with the tools to help them to become considerate friends and contributing members of society.
Who it helps
The FIE Basic program has been successfully used in the following frameworks:
- Enrichment programs for underachieving, neurotypical, and gifted children
- Learning enhancement programs for immigrants and students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Remedial programs for neurodiverse children, and children with disabilities
Who may train to be an FIE Basic Mediator?
FIE is open to university students, educators, clinicians, professionals, and parents interested in cognitive intervention.
Course Descriptions:
FIE Basic 1
Prerequisites:
The course is open to educators, clinicians, professionals, students, and parents working with younger children, or individuals with a lower level of function.
Course participants will receive a set of FIE Basic-1 instruments, a Teaching Diagrams booklet, and the FIE Basic User’s Guide
Syllabus:
Theories of development
Introduction to the theory of mediated learning experience
Analysis of emergent cognitive functions in regular and special needs populations
Criteria and principles of mediation
Goal and sub-goals of the clinical and educational application of the FIE Basic program
FIE Basic Lesson planning and preparation of “bridging” exercises
Comprehensive instruction in the use of the following FIE Basic instruments: Organization of Dots, From Unit to Group, Orientation in Space, Detecting the Absurd, Identifying Emotions
The mastery of FIE Basic theory and instruments is evaluated by means of a questionnaire presented to the course participants on the last day of the course.
Certification:
Course participants will be awarded a Certificate of Instrumental Enrichment Basic Mediator 1 upon successful completion of the entire course requirements. The certificate is valid for four years from its issue date and is renewed subject to the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) conditions: a. Submission of a verification form of FIE Basic implementation to Feuerstein Institute reflecting at least 30 hours of work with FIE Basic-1 instruments; b. Participation in annual lectures using e-learning, including successful completion of a questionnaire about the material presented in the lectures.
FIE Basic 2
Prerequisites:
The course is open to graduates of the FIE Basic 1 course.
Course participants will receive a set of FIE Basic 2 instruments and online theoretical materials. The participants are encouraged to bring their own copies of the FIE Basic User’s Guide received during the FIE Basic 1 course.
Syllabus:
- Mediated learning in young children
- Emergent and deficient cognitive functions in regular and special needs populations
- The emotional development of young children
- FIE Basic program and kindergarten curriculum
- Goal and sub-goals of the clinical and educational application of the second level of the FIE Basic program
- IE Basic Lesson planning and preparation of “bridging” exercises
- Comprehensive instruction in the use of the following FIE Basic instruments: Detecting the Absurd-2, From Empathy to Action, Preventing Violence, Reading Comprehension, Know and Identify
The mastery of FIE Basic theory and instruments is evaluated by means of a questionnaire presented to the course participants on the last day of the course.
Certification:
Course participants will be awarded a Certificate of Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Basic Mediator 2 upon successful completion of the entire course requirements. The certificate is valid for four years from its issue date and is renewed subject to the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) conditions: a. Submittal of verification form of FIE Basic implementation to Feuerstein Institute (to be obtained from Feuerstein Institute) reflecting at least 30 hours of work with FIE Basic 2 instruments; b. Participation in annual lectures using e-learning, including successful completion of a questionnaire about the material presented in the lectures.
Qualification conditions for the FEUERSTEIN INSTITUTE Instrumental Enrichment (IE) Standard 1 and 2 Course
1. All students who take one of the above Feuerstein Institute courses – whether given directly by the
Feuerstein Institute or by a Feuerstein Authorized Training Center, will be awarded a Certificate of
Instrumental Enrichment Mediator upon successful completion of the entire course requirements.
2. The certificate is valid for 4 years from its issue date and is renewed subject to the conditions
outlined below.
3. CPD (Continuous Professional Development)
A renewal of the certificate is dependent on renewal training (CPD) consisting of the following:
a) Each graduate of Feuerstein courses (IE Standard, IE Basic) who implemented the IE program must
file an IE implementation report using the on-line filing system. This submission should reflect at
least 30 hours of work. These are available in one of the following languages: English, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, French and Czech. Each training (i.e. IE1, IE2, etc.) requires submission of its
own verification of IE implementation form (one-time after each course).
b) A total of 8 CPD Credits earned over a 4 year period is required to complete the CPD requirements
and renew your certification. The initial course is included in the calculation and is equivalent of 2
CPD credits. It is possible to earn the remaining credits in three different ways (or a combination of
any of the three options):
a) By watching on-line CPD lectures via the CPD website. Each complete lecture viewed will earn you 1
CPD credit. Some of the videos are available in several languages.
b) By attending “live” CPD seminars organized by a local ATC. Each “live” seminar completed will earn
you 2 CPD credits. Each seminar must include at least half-a-day study (4 hours). Payment via
organizing ATC.
c) By attending additional Feuerstein courses during the 4 year period (regular course payment, no
additional payment for CPD credit). Each course will earn you 2 CPD credits.
4. Certificate holders who meet all CPD requirements will receive a renewal of their certificates
without an expiry date.
5. Only holders of a valid official Certificate of The Feuerstein Institute are eligible to purchase the
Feuerstein Instruments and to pursue continuing education in the Feuerstein Method. The
institution that gives the training in the Feuerstein method is required to give an official Feuerstein
Certificate to each student who successfully completes all course requirements.
6. Feuerstein Professionals can only purchase instruments for their own use, in which they themselves
are certified and hold a current certificate.
7. Feuerstein Professionals can only order for or re-sell to other Feuerstein Professionals those
instruments in which the latter are certified and hold a current certificate.
8. All Mediators are authorized to directly teach students or carry out treatment using IE instruments
for which they are qualified, but they are not authorized to teach other teachers or therapists to
use the methodology they studied.
9. To be able to teach teachers or other professionals, one must be qualified as a Trainer 1 / Trainer 2
in accordance with the Qualification conditions for Trainers Level 1 and 2 in Instrumental
Enrichment (IE) Standard/Basic and requires signing of an alliance agreement with the Feuerstein
Institute as an ATA, ATC (Authorized Training Center) or CFC (Certified Feuerstein Center), or
working as a staff member of an existent ATC or CFC.