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ICE Directors:
VICTORIA CARLTON
Director of the International Centre for Excellence
B.Ed., Dip. T., MACEL
Victoria Carlton is the Director of the INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE (ICE): an organisation based in Western Australia that offers assessments and specialised education service for all primary and high school students, as well as professional development for teachers.
She is a talented international educator with over 30 years of teaching experience at all levels. Victoria has a passion and talent for literacy education, teaching children who learn differently and providing challenge programs for gifted and talented children.
Victoria designs programs for students who are dyslexic, ADD, Gifted and Talented and across a variety of learning styles.
Victoria believes that ALL children are smart and so she designs high-quality programs that engage and enthuse children and make them WANT to learn!
Victoria has conducted many professional training courses for teachers and parents in Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Macau.
She has worked closely with many organisations in Singapore such as Singapore Institute of Management, NTUC, AECES, MOE and many Primary Schools. Victoria offers a consultancy service to Singapore schools and parents to help children with learning difficulties.
Victoria has often been a guest speaker at national and international education conferences. She is a highly sought after and dynamic speaker in the fields of multisensory learning and emotional intelligence. She presents many papers on improving standards in education, and her own research and methodology for ensuring full educational development for students. She has twice been a guest speaker for the Primary Principals Association and has spoken at many literacy conferences.
Courses developed and delivered by Victoria include:
- Victoria Carlton’s approach to Jolly Phonics
- Victoria Carlton’s approach to Jolly Grammar
- All Kids Can Write
- All Kids Can Read
- Brain Compatible Teaching
- Emotional Intelligence for Kidz
- Emotional Intelligence for Schools
- Emotional Intelligence for Business
- REFOCUS: a motivation course for teachers
- STAR: a specific course to help teachers identify and remediate children with learning difficulties within the classroom. (STAR)
Victoria has become well known in education circles through her work with ICE and training in schools.
Teachers and school leaders are attracted to her pragmatic and clear approach as it provides a clear pathway through the educational “maze”.
Her insights and information reinvigorate teachers and helps them deal with the demands for higher standards and better skill levels. She has designed programs which marry the theory and practice of teaching and address the needs for the whole school community.
Victoria was the co-convenor of an International Conference in Phuket for teachers from Australia and South East Asia to come together to discuss learning difficulties and the best practices to overcome them. She is currently co-convening another conference entitled GIVE THEM WINGS to be held in Singapore in 2012. This conference will address the issues and practices involved in ensuring that all children in schools are enabled to reach their full academic potential.
Victoria has co-authored a book entitled WHAT DO I TEACH? This is a text to help teachers and parents understand exactly what should be taught at each level and ensure that basic teaching concepts are not missed. She has also co-authored a book about using visualisations and art to foster writing skills: ALL KIDS CAN WRITE, as well as developing a set of affirmation cards entitled STAR KIDS.
Victoria offers MASTERY COURSES for teachers to help them learn her highly successful teaching methods and she is now offering educators the chance to purchase a licence and run their own VICTORIA CARLTON LITERACY CENTRE.
She has developed a specific course to raise Emotional Intelligence (EQ4KIDZ). Her EQ4KIDZ course has raised a lot of media attention, due to the very positive effects for children and families. She was featured in the Sunday Times and interviewed for TODAY TONIGHT (Channel 7). This course is helping many children improve emotional intelligence and reach their dreams.
Her parenting course: EQ4FAMILIES has proven to be a very effective and popular tool for raising the overall emotional intelligence of whole families.
She also works with organisations and businesses to raise their general motivation and emotional intelligence. Her book: EQ4FAMILIES is in preparation and will be released later this year.
Victoria is passionate about transforming schools into institutions where all children are challenged, motivated and encouraged to develop their full academic potential.
She helps organisations and businesses to raise their general motivation and emotional intelligence. Victoria is currently developing a book about using a right-brain approach to time management. She has carried out extensive research on learning, management and work styles and has written very practical seminars to help organisations and educational institutions reach their specific goals. She has developed a profiling instrument to help all individuals determine their particular intelligences cocktail and learning style.
Victoria is now offering professional development courses for corporations to increase Emotional Intelligence and ensure companies and institutions are operating at maximum levels of productivity and have work environments that foster nurturing, positive relationships with staff and clients. She is regularly asked to speak on this subject at conferences and often facilitates workshops for teachers in this area.
Victoria is passionate about transforming schools into institutions where all children are challenged, motivated and encouraged to develop their full academic potential. Her foremost goal is to empower everyone in her courses to reach their full academic potential. She is also totally committed to ensuring that all children at her centres are recognised as successful learners and empowered with stimulating, enjoyable teaching strategies.
Victoria can be contacted at victoriacarlton@iinet.net.au
More information can be seen at her website: www.ice-au.com
MARTIN QUINLAN
Director International Centre for Excellence
Grad Dip Bus, Dip Health Sciences
Kinesiologist, Reiki Master and Administration
Martin looks after the administration and logistics of running the busy centre and will often be answering the phones, updating the web site, fixing computer problems and generally working with the ICE staff.
Martin brings to ICE his skills in Kinesiology and Reiki with a desire to help the children (and parents) overcome their problems - physical, psychological or emotional. Martin has recently added to his Kinesiology skills with the latest LEAP course - Brain Integration 1. This course is proving to get very good results with adults and children alike.
More information about Martin (and what kinesiology can do for you) can be found at his web site www.getbalance.com
BOOKS by Victoria Carlton
Ages and Stages: a guide to curriculum content
It is often difficult for teachers and parents to determine the basic concepts that need to be taught for the various age levels. The planning documents available are somewhat ambiguous and the demands on teaching time from areas that are not allied to basic teaching are myriad. Unfortunately, this can mean that important maths and language areas may not receive sufficient attention.
We have tried to address this situation as many of the children at our centres are lacking in the basic skills and we wanted to be sure that our teachers did have a very clear idea of which concepts needed teaching at each grade level.
Our new book "Ages and Stages: a guide to curriculum content" is due to be available at the end of March 2007. It will discuss curriculum content for each grade level, as well as giving practical strategies to parents and teachers for effective teaching. List of sitable books for children to read and learn to spell will also be included. The cost of the book is $30 plus a postage and handling fee of $4
This book replaces the now sold out "What Do I Teach" which is no longer available.
Another publication that Teachers and Parents will find useful is
THE CARLTON ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO TEACHING PHONICS. This book is part of the CARLTON APPROACH TO LITERACY EDUCATION.
Victoria Carlton has been trialling these methods for many years at her Tuition Centres and now offers teachers, parents and children the opportunity to teach and learn using these tried and proven strategies.
The approach is an eclectic one that offers balanced, effective strategies that will appeal to children of varied learning styles.
Victoria believes that learning should be relevant and fun. She has developed multi-sensory child-centred methods that focus on the child's individual learning needs rather than any particular philosophy.
This book is about phonics but as phonics cannot be taught effectively in isolation, some context for learning is provided. Some relevant grammar and punctuation conventions are also discussed.
Teachers and parents who would like to purchase the book can contact us on 9271 4200. Only PDF versions of the book are currently available The cost of the book is $10 for the downloadable PDF file.
TV and Newspapers
Read what Stateline on ABC TV said about us on 9th February 2007 <click here>
Read what Today Tonight on Channel 7 said about us on 25 July 2006 <click here> Read what the Sunday Times said about our EQ Courses on 30 April 2006 <click here, BIG file >
Commerce and Industry Award of Excellence 2002:
At a glittering awards and business dinner held at the Burswood Hotel Resort and Casino the International Centre for Excellence was the proud recipient of the "Bartercard Commerce & Industry Gold Award of Excellence"
The citation for the award was as follows:
"Each week 200 students can attest that learning does not always have to be a painful task! The International Centre for Excellence is passionate about the need to challenge, motivate and encourage children to develop their full academic potential.
ICE has a special interest in addressing children with special learning needs such as ADD, as well as gifted children. Its staff refuse to look at limitations of children - rather they focus on their potential. They each expect the very best of their students and always get it facilitated by multi-sensory and tailored learning programs.
ICE also offers professional development courses for corporations to increase Emotional Intelligence to ensure companies and institutions are operating at maximum levels of productivity and have work environments that nurturing, positive relationships with staff and clients. We celebrate excellence here this evening - International Centre for Excellence!"
Media Articles
These some of our media releases we've issued, click on the one you wish to see:
Newsletters
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Some of these are a little dated, please ignore any addresses and phone numbers in them and use only those on the Contact Us page.
New Developments
NEW SCHOOL
The International Centre for Excellence is looking at setting up a small school based on the multiple intelligences model. It will cater for the needs of approximately 25 students and will also be a model teaching laboratory for student teachers and educators.
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