The Feuerstein Method
The Feuerstein Method is a unique educational technique developed by world-renowned psychologist Reuven Feuerstein.
Watch this video to learn more from Professor Alex Kozulin, Head of International Training and Research at the Feuerstein Institute.
How Does It Work?
Human potential is one’s capacity to improve and reach the limit of one’s ability to develop aptitudes and skills.
The Feuerstein Method helps individuals achieve their potential by teaching them how to learn. It’s a process-oriented approach that identifies learning challenges, analyzes them, and resolves them through systematic intervention. This is done through a process called Mediated Learning Experience (MLE), which uses dynamic assessment (LPAD) and a cognitive intervention program (Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment). Scroll down to learn more about our enrichment tools LPAD and FIE.
Different Types of Courses in FIE
Dynamic Assessment (LPAD)
The LPAD is a comprehensive and adaptable dynamic assessment designed to determine an individual’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses. Its purpose is to pinpoint areas requiring further development to enhance cognitive abilities. By providing insight into an individual’s cognitive profile, LPAD results help direct individual and group FIE studies, making it a valuable tool for classrooms and individuals.
Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE)
Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) is a cognitive intervention program that helps improve thinking and learning skills. It includes various tasks specifically designed to be done in a classroom, group, or individual setting. FIE focuses on different mental skills and provides a structured approach to problem-solving. By participating in FIE, learners can enhance their understanding and elaboration of information.
Tactile/Kinesthetic
Tactile/Kinesthetic I.E. is a unique experience that requires the trainee to have completed Standard 1 or Basic 1 training. With that background, Tactile provides an incredible method for helping the ADHD learner or the person who struggles with visualization while reading. It is also appropriate for visually impaired learners.
Basic
The BASIC Version of Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) targets the enhancement and enrichment of the younger child’s cognitive abilities and can also be used with older individuals. This version is based on the same theories of cognitive modifiability and mediated learning that have made the (FIE) program so successful. Both the process of learning as well as critical concepts are presented in these tools. The training is offered in two levels, five full days for each one.
Basic 1 provides the implementer with training in Organization of Dots (Basic), Compare and Discover the Absurd, Orientation in Space (Basic), Unit to Group, and Identify Emotions.
Basic 2 training includes Compare and Find the Absurd 2, Empathy to Action, Think and Learn to Prevent Violence, TriChannel Attentional Learning, and Know and Identify.
Standard
Feuerstein STANDARD training is for those teachers, counselors, or parents working with ages 10 through adult. With 14 tools at your fingertips, you have the opportunity to mediate for 28 cognitive strategies, metacognition, and flexible thinking. There are three levels of training, each one is five full days.
Standard 1 includes Organization of Dots, Comparisons, Analytic Perception, and Orientation in Space. The foundational theories of Structural Cognitive Modifiability, Mediated Learning Experience, Cognitive Map, and the Goals of Instrumental Enrichment are also covered and reviewed in Levels 2 and 3.
Standard 2 provides training in the mediation of Categorization, Illustrations, Family Relations, Temporal (Time) Relations, and Instructions. These tools help students and adults with important academic and job skills.
Standard 3 offers Orientation in Space II, Numerical Progressions, Transitive Relations, Syllogisms, and Representational Stencil Design. These five tools are cognitively challenging and help create new neural networks for life and learning.