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Great
way to start the year with excellent, logical information presented with passion
and enthusiasm. Thank you for your inspiration.
Fantastic. I graduated last year, and can honestly say that in my four years of
training I never learnt as much about teaching children to read, write and spell
as I have in the past two days. I can’t wait to try this with my class.
What a wonderful idea! Very informative course that I think will change the
course of teaching worldwide! Finally, children will be able to learn phonics,
reading, handwriting and spelling with ease and it is great that everyone can
benefit, even those who have special needs. Thank you so much for your amazing
insights.
Having two presenters was great and I cannot wait to work with our pupils
tomorrow. It makes a whole lot of sense and your bubbly personalities make it
such fun!
Great! A brilliant approach that will meet the needs of our kids. Well
presented, informative, but highly entertaining.
Very thorough explanation as to how THRASS works. A lot of ground was covered in
the two days – enough to educate us in the implementation of the programme
without overloading.
Fantastic. Thanks for changing our lives this weekend! I wish I was teaching
spelling in a class, but I will use it anyway. I started out on Saturday pretty
muddled, but feel I really know what’s going on now.
As a therapist, this is what we have been waiting for! Your presentation was
excellent and thorough in each section and stage. I do feel that for some, they
would require more work in the analysis section – as therapists, we spent so
much time on the actual sound analysis. I believe, as you said, that we are now
empowered to assist our children in hearing and seeing what is happening in a
word. I can’t wait to implement and see the results.
Very interesting course which was well-delivered and with great enthusiasm! The
focus on synthesis and analysis will be helpful to teachers, esp. the correct
articulation of sounds and an awareness of digraphs. This is very much how we
are working to remediate reading and spelling difficulties. I like the whole
language approach with work on vocabulary, categorisation etc built in.
Absolutely amazing. What a fantastic course over the two days. I have really
learnt a lot, I feel a lot more confident and it was so worthwhile. Thank you
very much.
It has opened my mind to new, greater horizons! I really enjoyed the two-day
course. Have really learnt a lot!
Very informative. The presentation was very enjoyable. A few concepts which I
did not grasp during two years of university English suddenly made sense!
Excellent course. Really makes it easier to teach more difficult sounds to
children. A solution to many reading, spelling and phonic problems that some
children have.
An amazing course. This has been an eye-opener and you have presented my mother
tongue in such a logical way that has challenged me to try and go and do
likewise. I’m particularly interested in using this in an ESL setting as I have
a TESOL certificate from UK, but the grammar overload and difficult lingo
related to learning what our language entails was boggling. This I wish I had
when I taught in China – now we will have fun using it here!
A well-presented course. It has given me a definite programme which will help
children who have difficulty with part/whole perception and letter sequencing.
Lovely visual aids, which I look forward to using in therapy sessions.
Very interesting and enlightening!
It’s been great – dealing with all the issues I’ve found with which children
have problems. Thanks a million!
Follows good principles and develops good understanding for learning phonics.
There was a lot of repetition on first day. I will definitely apply this in my
work with individuals within the school … and my own family and friends!
Found the course very interesting and sometimes very entertaining. Lots of food
for thought. The course has put a lot of things into perspective – excited to
implement it into our school.
Excellent! Thank you so much. I really believe this is going to work. Wonderful
to have spent time with you both.
Thank you for this amazing revolution, Alan. I feel totally inspired, excited
and refreshed about teaching children to read, write and spell! I am equally
inspired to help those in my family whose skills are inadequate! Thank you for
empowering us and the incredible effort you have put into this system. I salute
you!
Great. Thank you. Interesting and inspiring!
A fantastic course and ideas. As a first year teacher I feel more confident
about going into the classroom and being able to teach the children to read,
write and spell. I am looking forward to using this concept.
Very interesting and informative. A wonderful new approach. Very inspirational.
Wonderful course materials.
Great! So many issues/questions were cleared up. I am raring to go and so
excited to have context to what I’ve been trying to work out re phonetics.
Presentation was always exciting and humorous. I will definitely be promoting
this course and teaching method.
Excellent presentation. Brilliant to see how much throught went into the
programme and how with a bit of creative thinking, spelling and reading can be
brought to life! From a therapy point of view – we have so much to work with.
I loved every minute. Thank you Alan & Laola for coming to our school. Wish you
every success. I feel so empowered and also privileged to have been here.
Wonderful and interesting. I have learnt so much from THRASS. It meant a lot to
me.
I really enjoyed it. It gave me a lot of information about handwriting,
consonants and vowels and pronunciation.
Very informative – relieved to know I am not ‘odd’ for refusing to use
Letterland! A lot to take in but excited to start the new approach. Much
discussion and debating ahead.
Hopefully we have learnt not to teach Annie Apple, but to CELEBRATE and EMPOWER
the children. Thank you so much for a wonderful and enlightening course.
Wonderful.
Fantastic. Excited about getting started with both my class and own children.
Very interesting. It challenged old ideas and teaching practices and made “all
the bits” fit together. Looking forward to starting the programme.
Very informative. Has made sense as to why so many children battle with reading
and spelling. Looking forward to implementing this in our school.
Very interesting! I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It has opened my eyes to the
importance of teaching phonics correctly – and the importance of doing it from
an early age.
Very worthwhile – has given order to information that was previously confusing.
Has made me more enthusiastic about my teaching. Quite mind-boggling too – but I
will be spurned on to consolidate it. Very entertaining with extremely
well-thought-through material that will empower me to empower the children.
Thanks for that gift!
Exciting, challenging. Just what we have been looking for - a map to teach
writing, spelling, language and reading skills, celebrating achievements, being
brave about mistakes and having fun doing it all. Thank you!
Wow! What an excellent course. The children will definitely benefit from THRASS
as much as I have. I hope that one day this will be implemented in all schools
across South Africa. Fantastic.
A wonderfully informative two days. Looking forward to many fun-filled days of
teaching THRASS in the classroom.
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