- Provide affordable, high quality professional development opportunities to individuals and districts from all economic and cultural backgrounds.
- Respect each participant’s current use of materials and curriculum and provide assistance in managing the union of old and new methodologies.
- Respect each participant’s unique learning pace and acquisition of novel skills by continually monitoring participant learning.
- Provide each workshop participant a balanced, logical approach to teaching literacy strategies, encoding and decoding strategies and reading and oral comprehension skills.
- Trainings are affordable.
- Trainings match No Child Left Behind standards.
- Qualified Instructors. All of our trainers have a Masters in Education and have actively used our training techniques for at least a year before becoming a trainer.
- Our interventions generated dramatic gains. Kindergartners demonstrated 90% DIBELS phoneme segmentation fluency (a 43% increase) and 75% DIBELS nonsense word fluency (a 39% increase) over five years of Read MTI's intervention*.
- 99% rate Read MTI as excellent or very good.
- 90% of Read MTI's districts request additional trainings.
- Our methodologies are best implemented in a team approach including, but not limited to, the regular educator, special educator, speech pathologist and reading teacher.
- We seek to build a sense of community among our participants through hands-on activities, modeling, game play and pure FUN. Our presenters know excellent learning occurs when the participants are comfortable in both learning and play.
- We provide workshops in unique locations to foster each participant’s sense of well-being and openness to learning.
- Read MTI’s professional development programs are simply the beginning of a long and valuable journey. Follow-up workshops are frequently offered to individuals and districts in order to support the development of each participant’s individual program. Additionally, relevant and timely workshops are added annually based on current education initiatives.
About Us
The Multisensory Training Institute (Read MTI) of the Stratford Foundation is a nonprofit educational foundation, seeking to prevent and address reading difficulties in students by increasing teachers' knowledge in evidence based strategies. We are dedicated to educating our nation's teachers through reasonably-priced professional development workshops. Focusing on early reading foundations, struggling readers and English Language Learners, our workshops have educated over 3000 primary grade teachers across the nation. In fact, a five year study has shown Read MTI's intervention generated dramatic gains and increased students' reading skills as much as 43 percent!
Why Multisensory?
According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans
can't read, and 50 million are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level.
The difficulty in this battle lies in the way we train our students how
to read.
Not all students can learn to read by being presented with a letter from
the alphabet and being told what sound that letter makes. A multisensory
approach is needed. Some students’ strengths lie in a tactile approach,
feeling how the sound is formed in their mouth. Other students may perform
best by seeing their mouth in a mirror and visualizing how the sound is
formed. Regardless of the “sense” that works best with each individual
student, tactile, visual or auditory, the key to reading success lies
in delivering the necessary foundations for reading in the correct sequence.
Before you can teach a child "D" is for Dog, they must first learn how
to form the sound /d/ in their mouth.
Mission
Read MTI takes immense pride in offering small, inspiring educational workshops at affordable prices. We believe highly
acclaimed publicly available teaching techniques should be made available to all individuals, regardless of socioeconomic
status, school location or program costs. As a not-for-profit foundation
dedicated to spreading the news of excellent teaching methodologies, we
adhere to our mission to disseminate this information as a cost-effective
solution to individuals typically unable to access traditional training
offered by for-profit corporations.
Our mission is to serve individuals and districts in their discovery of well-researched
and classroom-driven teaching methods.
Features
We seek to:
Benefits
Why should you consider Read MTI of the Stratford Foundation?
*Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set
of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy
development. Testing based on Read MTI's trainings was conducted in the Ohio
public school system from 2001-2006.
Beliefs
