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Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (FIE or IE) is an intervention program designed to provide the concepts, skills, strategies, and operations necessary to recognize and correct deficiencies in thinking skills and to help individuals "learn how to learn." The cognitive functions addressed in IE are considered to be pre-requisite skills for learning.
The IE Standard program consists of 14 instruments and is appropriate curricula for 4th graders to adults. Each instrument is a series of paper and pencil tasks that become progressively more complex and abstract. Through the tasks, students develop the skills and habits of thinking that enable them to process information, see connections, visualize spatial and temporal relationships, and communicate in precise ways. These are basic skills needed for academic and professional achievement.
Feuerstein's IE Standard Program has received praise from educators throughout the world and is currently taught in 29 languages, both with underachieving and with well functioning students and adults in a variety of learning situations.
FastTrack is a program designed by ICELP for training management level personnel in business and industry settings. The goal is to improve their problem solving/decision making skills through 50 hours of training using selected pages from all fourteen instruments of the FIE Standard Program.
The newly developed IE Basic program has been designed for younger children, to assist in cultivating their cognitive functioning during the formative years of age three through third grade. IE Basic consists of 10 instruments that are conceptual, downward extensions of the original Standard instruments.
The Learning Propensity Assessment Device (LPAD) was created by Professor Feuerstein to measure an individual’s potential (propensity) for learning, as intelligence is not viewed as a stationary measure, according to the theoretical premise of Cognitive Enrichment.
The International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP) presently has nine Authorized Training Centers (ATC's) in the United States, with the Southeastern Center for the Enhancement of Learning serving the Southeast region from its offices in south metro Atlanta. These ATC's train educators in the theory and curriculum used for Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment. For a complete listing of ATC's, go to the ICELP web site at www.icelp.org.
