Boost your students’ success! Attend NIFDI remote Direct Instruction program training!

Effective training is crucial to the successful implementation of Direct Instruction (DI) programs. The National Institute for Direct Instruction is the premier provider of DI professional development. Each year, we partner with thousands of instructors to build student success.

In these highly focused trainings, you will learn, practice, and receive feedback on the critical presentation skills needed to teach the programs. Click on the titles to sign up today! Spaces are limited. 

Corrective Reading Decoding Level A

Friday, October 10, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

The Corrective Reading program provides systematic reading instruction to students performing below grade-level expectations in grades 3 and above. Corrective Reading Decoding A supports non-readers, those who are extremely deficient in decoding skills, by teaching sound-spelling relationships, reading strategies for sounding out words, and applying those strategies both in isolation and in context. Students who place into Decoding A may recognize some words but lack adequate strategies to successfully read words like frost and track.

Reading Mastery Signature Edition (RMSE) Grade K Reading (Two-Part Training)

Friday, October 10 & Thursday, October 16, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

Due to the amount of material covered in this training, it is divided over two days.  
Learn to effectively implement Reading Mastery Signature Edition Grade K Reading, a beginning reading program for non-reading children. The RMSE Grade K program systematically teaches all the prerequisite skills children need to master the fundamentals of beginning literacy, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Upon mastery of the skills taught in Grade K, children are ready to expand their reading skills to Grade 1 reading standards. Participants will learn the technical delivery skills needed to support children in developing these essential reading skills.

Corrective Reading Decoding Levels B1 & B2

Friday, October 17, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

The Corrective Reading program provides systematic reading instruction to students performing below grade-level expectations in grades 3 and above. Corrective Reading Decoding B1 refines word-attack skills by teaching sounds and sound combinations, introducing new vocabulary, and promoting word discrimination. There is a strong emphasis on fluency-building, as well as comprehension, through daily reading of decodable, connected text.

Corrective Reading Decoding B2 continues the instructional sequence of Level B1, focusing on student practice in word attack and spelling, vocabulary development, and daily reading of decodable, connected text. Practice for rate and accuracy, as well as charting daily fluency progress, are features that help students recognize their progress and increase their motivation to work hard to build reading skills and catch up to their grade-level peers. Students who place into Decoding B1 or B2 often have inconsistent reading skills and frequently guess at words, rather than applying decoding strategies that will lead to accurate word reading.

Reading Mastery Signature Edition (RMSE) Grade 1 Reading 

Friday, October 24, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

Learn to effectively implement Reading Mastery Signature Edition Grade 1 Reading, which is the second level of the Reading Mastery series. Participants will learn the technical delivery skills needed to support children as they learn and apply strategies for decoding difficult words, increase fluency in passage reading, and develop comprehension strategies. Participants will also learn how RMSE Grade 1 develops basic reasoning skills such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, and working independently.

Direct Instruction Spoken English (DISE)

Friday, October 31, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

This session provides training for teaching Direct Instruction Spoken English (DISE), Levels 1 and 2. DISE teaches a fundamental mastery of the English language to students who have little or no knowledge of the language. Students need to have at least a third-grade level of knowledge in their own language to be successful in the DISE program. With this foundation, DISE can give students the oral language skills they need to benefit from their other classes as quickly as possible. The goal of the DISE program is to enable students who don’t speak English to master the basics of the English language in one school year. 

DISTAR Arithmetic 1

Friday, November 7, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

DISTAR Arithmetic 1 teaches students to perform the basic operations of addition, algebraic addition (missing addends), and subtraction. Upon finishing the program, learners are able to work simple story problems involving those operations, solve simple problems based on the more-than or less-than signs, derive new arithmetic facts based on an understanding of approximately 35 facts, and apply ordinal counting to simple picture problems.

Participants in this one-day training will learn the initial technical delivery skills needed to support children as they learn and apply these skills. 

Connecting Math Concepts: Comprehensive Edition Level B

Friday, November 14, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

Learn to effectively implement Connecting Math Concepts: Comprehensive Edition Level B, which is the second level of the Connecting Math Concepts series. Participants will learn the initial technical delivery skills needed to support children as they learn and apply strategies and concepts taught in earlier levels—measurement, time, money, geometry, estimation, and place value, with an emphasis on problem-solving.

The Road to Success – Routines and Expectations

Friday, November 21, 7:30 am-2:30 pm PT

Greater understanding and application of positive behavior support strategies (preventative strategies) increase the odds of good behavior in your instructional setting. Effective classroom managers are known not by what they do when misbehavior occurs, but what they do to set their classrooms up for academic success and prevent problems from occurring.

This interactive, one-day training session will help you

• Understand the relationship between instructor behavior and the learning environment,
• Identify key features of an effective classroom,
• Develop steps toward implementing effective, proactive strategies in your classroom.