This course is designed to instruct early childhood education standards to those working with children birth to age 5.   Students will learn the requirements are to establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment, components to advance the physical, cognitive, communicative and creative development of young children, how to build productive relationships with families, and understand the principles of child development. 

This class will be taught Hybrid, meaning it will be taught on all 3 campuses at the same time via IP Video with a live instructor.   For questions, email ConEd@wvncc.edu.  

Edge, powered by Wheeling Country Day School (WCDS) in partnership with West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC), will offer a summer course to teach K-12, West Virginia teachers the knowledge and practice of the Orton-Gillingham (OG) Approach. This is an in-person course that will take place at WVNCC’s Wheeling campus.

By learning the Orton-Gillingham approach, educators will understand how to use and implement the O-G teaching techniques and procedures when working with a student(s) with a reading disability, such as dyslexia. This course will provide practical knowledge and support for learning how to apply the skills and techniques that will lead students to be successful readers. 

Participants who successfully complete this training will be eligible to participate in the 100-hour practicum. Over a minimum of eight months, a 100-hour supervised practicum will be offered that includes 10 one-hour observations. Participants will meet 1:1 with the same student, receiving ten observations by a Fellow or by a Fellow-in-Training (FIT). Participants who successfully complete this training will be eligible to apply for certification at the Associate Level from the Orton-Gillingham Academy (OGA).

Who is eligible to participate?

This training is open to any K-12 teacher, school psychologist, or speech-language pathologist.

The training will be taught by Cyndi Schultz, Accredited Training Fellow of Orton-Gillingham Academy (OGA), and co-taught by Theresa Kowcheck, Director of Literacy for Edge. Theresa is a Fellow-in-Training through the OGA and an instructor of Reading at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA.

This course is designed to instruct students in the proper syntax and basic grammatical constructs of ASL.   Over 500 signs are introduced and utilized in conversations, enabling students to express basic ideas.  ASL 1 focuses on American Sign Language as a visual and motor medium of communication and discourse for deaf individuals and deaf culture.  Upon successful completion of the course, attendees will receive a continuing education certificate of completion.  

This course is a continuation of ASL 1 and will expand upon the development of sign vocabulary with the introduction of phrases.  Emphasis will be placed on the use of body postures, hand shapes, expressions, signing space, using classifiers, maintaining attention, and controlling the pace of conversation.  Upon successful completion of the course, attendees receive a continuing education certificate of completion.