Training Programme

The entire training in the theoretical, didactical and practical aspects of the programme consists of 6 Sessions of 35 hours each and a total of 210 training hours.

Upon completion of the first level of training and immediately following each of the subsequent Sessions, trainees are encouraged to use and incorporate the learnt instruments into their working environment.

Between each Session trainees attend a group meeting to give them an opportunity to discuss their experiences of putting IE training into practice in the workplace and to seek guidance on any problems that may have arisen. Such meetings are organised at times to suit the group.

Throughout the programme and beyond, trainees are encouraged to take advantage of the support and advisory services offered by the ICML.

Training is arranged as follows:

Trainees will be issued with ICML certificates on completion of each Level. On completion of training, graduates will be entered on the ICML register of qualified practitioners of IE.

IE Level I: Session 1- Contents

Theoretical Topics:

Mediated Learning and its implications in the qualities of educational interventions
Distal and proximal etiology of cognitive development
The theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability
The theoretical basis of Instrumental Enrichment: Goals and subgoals

Didactical Means:

Overview of the IE Instruments
The concept of Deficient Cognitive Functions - awareness activity
Analysis of the Deficient Cognitive Functions (Part I)

IE Instruments:

Organisation of Dots
Orientation in Space I
Illustrations

Practical Application:
Lesson planning and role-playing:
Organisation of Dots, Orientation in Space I and Illustrations

The ICML will support, supervise, and monitor trainees between training Sessions.

IE Level I: Session 2- Contents

Theoretical Topics:

The Cognitive Map: Parameters for the analysis of the mental act
The theory of Mediated Learning Experience
The explicative and orienting roles of MLE

Didactical Means:

Analysis of the Deficient Cognitive Functions (Part II)
The components of an IE session
Preliminary lesson-planning model

IE Instruments:

Comparisons
Analytic Perception
Orientation in Space II

Practical Application:

Lesson planning and role-playing:
Comparisons, Analytic Perception and Orientation in Space II

Trainees will be given the opportunity to observe the use of IE Instruments with children, and the practical application of the methods.

The ICML will support, supervise, and monitor trainees between training Sessions.

IE Level II: Session 3- Contents

Theoretical Topics:

Mediated Learning Experience criteria: Intentionality and Reciprocity, Transcendence and the Mediation of Meaning
Introduction to Dynamic Assessment and the Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)

Didactical Means:

Analysis of Illustrations tasks according to Cognitive Map parameters
Overall functions of Mediator in MLE interactions
Didactics of IE applied in the school context

IE Instruments:

Categorisation
Family Relations
Temporal Relations

Practical Application:

Lesson planning and role-playing:
Categorisation, Family Relations and Temporal Relations

Trainees will practice the learnt IE Instruments with children in a supervised session.

The ICML will support, supervise, and monitor trainees between training sessions.

IE Level II: Session 4- Contents

Theoretical Topics:

Mediated Learning Experience criteria: Mediation of a Feeling of Competence, Regulation and Control of Behaviour, Mediation of Sharing Behaviour and Mediation of Individuation and Psychological Differentiation
Review of theoretical concepts

Didactical Means:

Categorisation of Mediated Interactions (Part I)
Implications of MLE criteria in IE interactions

IE Instruments:

Numerical Progressions
Instructions

Practical application:

Lesson planning and role-playing:
Numerical Progressions and Instructions

Trainees will practice the learnt IE Instruments with children in a supervised session.

The ICML will support, supervise, and monitor trainees between training sessions.

Theoretical Topics:

Mediated Learning Experience criteria: Mediation of Goal Seeking, Goal Setting and Goal Achieving Behaviour, Mediation of Challenge: the search for novelty and complexity and Mediation of Human Modifiability
Mediated Learning Experiences and Cultural Transmission

Didactical Means:

Effectiveness of Mediated Learning and FIE: Evaluation of microchanges elicited by the intervention
Categorisation of Mediated Interactions (Part II)
Introduction to logico-verbal reasoning: Syllogistic and Transitive Thinking

IE Instruments:

Syllogisms
Transitive Relations

Practical Application:

Lesson planning and role-playing:
Syllogisms and Transitive Relations

Trainees will practice the learnt IE Instruments with children in a supervised session.

The ICML will support, supervise, and monitor trainees between training sessions.

IE Level III: Session 6- Contents

Theoretical Topics:

Mediated Learning Experience criteria: Mediation of the Choice of the Optimistic Alternative and Mediation of the Feeling of Belonging
The characteristics of a Modifying Environment

Didactical Means:

The Profiles of Modifiability: The domains of change, its qualities and the mediation required to elicit it.
Lacking mediated interactions and subsequent cognitive deficiencies

IE Instrument:

Representational Stencil Designs

Practical Application:

Lesson planning and role-playing:
Representational Stencil Designs

Trainees will practice the learnt IE Instruments with children in a supervised session.

The ICML will support, supervise, and monitor trainees between training sessions and offer further support and consultancy during the first years of implementation.

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