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Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Program

What is FIE?
Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Program Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) is a cognitive education program. It begun in the 1950s by Professor Reuven Feuerstein. The program has been successfully used in seventy countries as a tool for the enhancement of learning potential in:

  • normal individuals; and
  • specially challenged individuals.

FIE is a classroom curriculum designed to enhance the cognitive functions necessary for academic learning and achievement. The fundamental assumption of the program (based on the theory and research pioneered by Professor Reuven Feuerstein) is that intelligence is dynamic and modifiable, not static or fixed. Thus the program seeks to:

  • correct deficiencies in fundamental thinking skills,
  • provide students with the concepts, skills, strategies, operations and techniques necessary to function as independent learners, and
  • diagnose and to help students learn how to learn.

FIE Instruments
FIE materials are organized into instruments that comprise paper-and- pencil tasks aimed at such specific cognitive domains such as:
  • analytic perception,
  • orientation in space and time,
  • comparative behavior,
  • classification, and more.

The FIE program is mediated by a certified FIE trainer and can be implemented:

  • in the classroom setting;
  • as an individual tutoring; and
  • asremedial teaching device.

The Instrumental Enrichment program has received worldwide recognition and has been translated into 29 languages, with more lined up for application.

Mastery in FIE
Mastery of the tasks in Instrumental Enrichment is never a matter of rote learning or mere reproduction of a learned skill. It always involves the:

  • application of rules,
  • principles, or
  • strategies in a variety of tasks.

Thus, FIE systematically reinforces the cognitive functions that enable learners to:

  • define problems,
  • make connections and see relationships,
  • motivate themselves,
  • and improve their work habits.

Instrumental Enrichment consists of fourteen instruments that focus on specific cognitive functions. Learning how to learn takes place through repetition -- not repetition of the FIE tasks themselves, but of the cognitive functions and applications underlying the task at hand. Tasks become increasingly complex and abstract, and the instruments reinforce cognitive functions in a cyclical manner. Deliberately free of specific subject matter, the FIE tasks are intended to be more readily transferable to all life situations. Through FIE, students develop the ability to apply their cognitive functions to any problem or thinking situation.

By clicking on the titles in the FIE Instruments, you will see a sample from each of the fourteen instruments in the FIE program. Each sample will:
  • describes an instrument;
  • provides a summary of the cognitive processes the instrument addresses; and
  • presents a task from the instrument.

The sample tasks have been chosen randomly from the sequence of tasks in each instrument and do not necessarily reflect the development of the program.