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Online Seminars

We're bringing HWT training to you!

Handwriting Without Tears® is proud to present a series of online seminars to enhance your teaching through interactive exchanges with professionals and experts in a variety of fields. Each online seminar will offer ideas and best practices for your professional development. Educators, therapists and parents alike can benefit from attending an HWT online seminar—all without having to leave the computer!

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Live Seminars

Introduction to Sentence School

Response to Intervention: The Link to Handwriting Instruction & Intervention

January 31, 2012 
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. EST
 
Do you have students who struggle with writing and motor skills? Are these students falling behind in school and on tests? Learn how an RtI approach to handwriting can make a dramatic difference in your classroom. Learn why schools across the country are implementing RtI strategies to help all students.
 
You'll come away from this presentation with the tools to maximize your time in the classroom and keep more students in general education where they belong.
 
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
 
  • Identify and help at-risk students early
  • Implement strategies to provide differentiated classroom instruction
  • Improve performance with a multi-tiered model for handwriting
  • Discover tools for screening and tracking both student and class performance, and for providing targeted remediation

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Get Set for School: Top 10 Ways to Prepare for Kindergarten

Join us on March 6, 2012 for this live event.

Does Pre-K today look a lot different than when you (or even your children) attended? Pre-K looks much more like Kindergarten these days, with higher expectations and standards of achievement.

This interactive seminar will look at the essential skills for young children as they begin formal schooling. Learn the key developmental areas of most readiness standards, and discover Pre-K readiness activities and strategies that inspire through playful and engaging learning.
 

  

On Demand Seminars

Introducing Sentence SchoolIntroduction to Sentence School

What is Sentence School? How will it benefit kindergarten children? How do I actually use it? This 1-hour seminar will introduce Sentence School and show you how easy it is to get started. You'll learn how the engaging lessons help children become confident, skilled writers in just 10–15 minutes a day.

In this interactive online seminar, you will:

  • Learn why a developmental and multisensory approach works in teaching sentence skills
  • Discover how to set up your classroom for sentence success
  • Understand Sentence School lesson structure—Read, Do, Say, Write
  • Learn how to implement Sentence School during the week
  • Understand how Sentence School integrates with all curricula.

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