1. Master Licence:
Marketing and Developing TTRS Centres
2. An Independent Centre
Licence: Tutors or Associations wishing to establish their own
Independent Centre
3. Background and
Acknowledgements
Master
Licence
TTRS seek well qualified persons to establish
TTRS in their area/county/state or country (see News and
History).
A Master Licence Associate will be promoting and
responding to demand in their region from schools, colleges, prisons,
dyslexia groups and associations and other institutions and charities as
well as establishing Independent Centres.
The skills required for a Master Licence include
an ability for marketing with experience and understanding of the
education sector. This will be a professional individual, team or
company who clearly demonstrate these diverse skills with a passion for
assisting those with learning difficulties. TTRS works with
schools, colleges and other institutions training teachers and
establishing three week pilot courses as part of training. After a
successful three week pilot TTRS licence those teachers to
deliver TTRS in their respective centre.
How to proceed To proceed, please complete and
return the
Statement of
Interest Form. We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for
your interest in TTRS.
An
Independent Centre Licence
An opportunity to follow your vocation
where your skills meet a real need
Thank you for your interest in the business
opportunity for tutors. Please read through the following information,
and if you’d then like to proceed to the next stage of our getting to
know each other, complete and return the
Statement of
Interest Form. You may respond via this website, fax it to us on 020
8313 9454 or by direct email to
info@ttrs.co.uk If you would prefer a personal conversation
please give us your telephone number and Jill Hardie-Bick or Philip
Alexandre will be happy to contact you. If you are not already familiar
with TTRS we can set up an opportunity for you to see the course
in action. There are excellent opportunities to visit courses.
TTRS seek excellent teachers to open
independent after school centres on a part time basis from two hours per
week. TTRS are a growing team who work as associates to deliver
Touch-type Read and Spell courses around the country and overseas. The
TTRS courses are held after school and/or Saturday mornings.
After school centres are often established as a joint project between
the hosting school/college/ or other computer equipped venue, the
teacher and TTRS. Many TTRS Centres are run by local
dyslexia associations, groups or companies developing literacy, schools,
colleges and self employed teachers who we help find a suitable venue.
Our clients are students who have some form of
difficulty with reading, writing or spelling. This may be for a number
of reasons and are mainly a specific learning difficulty, sensory
impairment or simply through a lack of past teaching and learning. The
age range of our students is from 7 years to 80 years.
Growing Demand
The TTRS course is uniquely designed to assist students of
all ages who have literacy difficulties with a method of delivery that
teaches touch-typing in a “dyslexia friendly”, multi-sensory way aiming
to develop literacy, confidence and self esteem with measurable success
right from the start. In addition to term time courses, there is growing
demand for TTRS holiday courses.
Length of the Course
There are twenty-four levels to TTRS, each consisting of thirty
modules, covering four thousand words. Word lists are based on the book
Alpha to Omega by Beve Hornsby et al, and works through from
stage one to stage three of the text book. Students complete the whole
literacy course in approximately one to two years, based on one hour per
week.
Financial Return
From five to ten students per hour is the ideal group size for delivery,
depending on various factors. For more information on the financial and
administrative aspects of running TTRS please contact Jill Hardie-Bick
at info@ttrs.co.uk
Who can teach TTRS
For all tutors, what is of paramount importance is the ability to
create a supportive, motivating and positive learning environment and to
have an excellent rapport with parents and/or adult learners. You do
not need to be able to touch-type to deliver TTRS, nor do you
need to be highly computer literate. Full, free training in the method,
approach and delivery will be given. You will have the opportunity to
pilot the TTRS course with a number of students and thoroughly
evaluate TTRS with successful delivery before entering into a
licence between us. Teaching and learning assistants with empathy and
understanding of literacy difficulties often make excellent tutors under
the guidance of a qualified and experienced teacher of those with
learning difficulties.
Background
and Acknowledgements
Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS)
was established in 1992 and is based in the United Kingdom as the result
of a research degree and study of computer aided learning with dyslexic
children over a number of years and with the kind help and assistance of
the British Dyslexia Association Computer Committee - Jean Hutchins,
London Borough of Bexley Advisory Service - Marjorie Lishman, The North
Kent Dyslexia Association - Pam Morley, Dr. Beve Hornsby of the Hornsby
International Dyslexia Centre. There are now over 250 schools, colleges
and centres operating in the UK and overseas. The course is available in
UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, Africa and we
are seeking more suitable Master Licence Associates around the world.
Please see Overseas Contacts. |
