HandRIGHTing Ink - In-Service Training for Teachers

HandRIGHTing, Ink is offering five seminars. They can be presented separately, or in a series to educators and/or parents at your school or agency. Please contact us to obtain pricing information and to schedule one or more seminars at your convenience.

Foundation Skills and Classroom Activities for Handwriting Success

Learn why handwriting is not just making the pencil move on the paper. Be able to incorporate fun instructional exercises and techniques into your classroom that will encourage good basic habits for handwriting success. Become familiar with an easy handwriting assessment that can be used for one child or an entire class.

Describe the importance of teaching basic handwriting habits..
Identify performance components of good handwriting instruction.
Be familiar with a handwriting assessment screening tool.
Build your repertoire of fun handwriting development exercises and techniques.

Regulating Your Students' Ability to Focus and Attend

Do you have a student who tends to fidget, climb in his chair or fiddle with something instead of doing his work? Perhaps you have a student who daydreams or seems to have little energy to complete his assignments. Learn how simple sensori-motor strategies can help many of these children be more productive (and less distracting) in your classroom.

Become aware of your own fluctuating levels of alertness and the sensori-motor strategies to employ for optimum regulation.
Learn to identify levels of attention in your students and how to employ a variety of sensori-motor strategies to maximize their attention.
Learn techniques to make children more aware of their own fluctuating levels of attention and how each can independently optimize it.

Putting the Handwriting Without Tears™ Pre-K Program to Work in the Classroom.
The Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K program offers hands-on, multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate activities to prepare your students for handwriting. Learn how to teach a correct handwriting grip, use music to prepare children for school, teach counting, drawing, shape recognition, and letter/number formation to children at the Pre-K level. Learn to identify developmental stages in writing readiness. Plan new activities to teach body awareness and other school readiness skills.

Putting the Handwriting Without Tears™ Printing Method to Work in the Classroom.

Learn how to use the fastest growing handwriting curriculum in your classroom. Find out how grouping similar letters helps prevent reversals and helps children quickly form skills This multi-sensory approach appeals to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners

Identify prerequisite skills for handwriting success.
Will have knowledge of pre-writing instructional techniques that support handwriting development.
Be introduced to the Handwriting Without Tears™ method for proper letter formation, spacing and sizing for printed handwriting style.

Putting the Handwriting Without Tears™ Cursive Method to Work in the Classroom

The cursive style can be such a blessing to children with poor printing! Learn how to teach a clean, vertical style with easy to follow directions that accompany this method.

Identify prerequisite skills for cursive handwriting success.
Will be aware of the effect of performance components on handwriting.
Be introduced to the Handwriting Without Tears™ method for proper letter formation, spacing and sizing for cursive style.