Remedial Teaching with a Difference

Introducing Glynis Brummer

Glynis is a Pre- and Junior- Primary trained teacher with over 30 years experience in the New Entrant classroom. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, Glynis ran her own Pre-school. Glynis has a Bachelor of Education Degree, a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (Special Education) and a Masters Degree in Education (Special Education) with an emphasis on Reading, Writing and Spelling difficulties. She taught gifted and talented students at the George Parkyn Centre from 2002 - 2004. However, young children and their development has always been a particular interest and over the years she has noticed how many children seem to have difficulties with learning when entering school. With this in mind, she has completed training in Perceptual Motor Development Programmes and has completed a Diploma in Neuro-physiological Psychology to enhance the work she is doing through the Smart Learning Solutions' Movement and Learning Centre in Howick.

She is a Neuro-Developmental Delay Therapist and the New Zealand Licentiate for The Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP, UK). With further work and study through INPP (UK) Glynis has been granted the license to be INPP (New Zealand). This is an exciting development as this enables her to offer the One Year Postgraduate Diploma in Neuro-Developmental Delay in New Zealand as well as the INPP Teacher Training Course in the use of the INPP Schools Programme.

Glynis is also a Practitioner, Supervisor and now National Director of the Johansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation (JIAS) Programme. She specialises in working with individual students to identify problem areas that hinder learning and then develops a structured movement and remedial programme to suit the child. Smart Learning Solutions also provides specialist tuition to students to address difficulties with spelling, reading, writing and mathematics.

Introducing Heidi Stubenitsky

Heidi graduated with a Bachelor of Communication Studies before completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching. As a Secondary School teacher she was Department Head of Technology. Heidi was also a very effective and well respected teacher at the Primary and Intermediate levels before joining Smart Learning Solutions where she is able to do remedial teaching on an individual basis with students. While Heidi is a member of the assessment team, her key focus is remedial teaching of Mathematics and Language to all age levels. Heidi is also a registered Provider of the Johansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation Programme.

Introducing Dawn Lemmer

Dawn is a fully registered and qualified teacher. She has taught for over 30 years in primary and intermediate schools. In previous years, Dawn has been a team leader and was in charge of Mathematics for a primary school. She was also involved in rewriting curriculum for Year 1 to 7 Mathematics and has been the member of Maths target groups, looking at progress and development of Mathematics in schools. Currently, Dawn is a member of a Literacy focus group, looking at improving literacy through reading development and the use of various reading strategies. She has always been very interested in helping those students who are battling in school, and has completed courses in remedial teaching. She has also attended the course held by Glynis at Smart Learning, in the use of the INPP Schools Programme. Dawn is also a registered Provider of the Johansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation Programme.

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