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Breakthrough Education


Elements of a learner’s preferences

There are students who want to work independently or alone. They feel distracted when working with others, their sense of focus and their thinking processes are inhibited.

Emotions and environment affect Learning Styles

Studies reveal that the introduction of music to a school’s curriculum produced marked improvements in the students’ performance in math, reading and the sciences.

Ramifications of learning styles

Learning style encompasses at least 21 different variables, including each person’s environmental, emotional, sociological, physiological, and cognitive-processing preferences.

Restlessness and Hyperactivity

Most children referred to psychologists are not clinically hyperactive.

Children’s time-of-day preferences

Task efficiency is related to each person’s temperature cycle, thus it is related to when each student is likely to learn best.

Children’s environmental, sociological needs

Some children require quiet while concentrating on difficult information.

Learning style and brain behavior: Tips for practitioners

The research on learning styles explains why, in the same family, certain children perform well in school whereas their siblings do not. It demonstrates the differences in style among members of the same class, culture, community, profession, or socioeconomic group, but it also reveals the differences and similarities between groups.

A view of the learning process

"Learning is sometimes defined as the “acquisition of information.”

The powerful brain

The human brain is an ever-fascinating masterpiece of creation.

Breakthrough paradigms

What we have seen thus far - learning styles and multiple intelligences - together constitute
a new, exciting and holistic framework for the understanding of learning and the re-engineering of education.

6 ways to bring out your best – A Learning Styles approach

Learning style is the way people begin to concentrate on, process, internalize, and remember new and difficult academic information.

High Confidence Diets (Part 3)

Finally, have fun doing this with them!

High Confidence ‘Diets’

Parents of misbehaving children tend to use significantly more commanding and negative statements and fewer neutral and positive ones with their children, than do parents of the so-called “normal” children.

High Confidence Diets (Part 1)

“The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?” - Albert Einstein

Intrapersonal Intelligence

A great many questions remain, but some definite answers have been found through painstaking research and experiments.

6 ways to bring out your best – A Learning Styles approach

Learning style is the way people begin to concentrate on, process, internalize, and remember new and difficult academic information.

Breakthrough paradigms

What we have seen thus far - Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences - together constitute a new, exciting and holistic framework for the understanding of learning and the re-engineering of education.

CDifferent kinds of Learning Styles defined

Elaborate processors do more than just remember; they classify, compare, contrast, analyze, and synthesize information.

Different kinds of Learning Styles defined

It is said that learning styles are the characteristic, cognitive, affective, and psychological behaviors that serve as relatively stable indicators of how learners perceive, interact with, and respond to the learning environment.

Different styles for different learners

In many cultures, children who are traditionally given piggy banks are encouraged to save with minimal supervision from their parents.

Implications of Learning Styles in instructional strategies

Is the idea of allowing your students to eat or doodle and draw while in class preposterous to you?

The stomach – brain connection

It is said that the surest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. For some learners, this may be paraphrased as: the best way to learning is through intake.

Teaching by candlelight

Dinner by candlelight, soft music, meaningful glances. This is a classic setting for romance. There is much for teachers to learn from this: the use of externals to kindle a whole range of internals.

Motivating children through their learning preferences

Learning is critically influenced by learner motivation. All teachers want to have are motivated learners in their classrooms.

Learning with a purpose

For learning to take place, the learner must be effectively and positively involved in the process.

Why do children misbehave?

To provide children with gentle encouragement through a friendly, caring and respectful attitude, especially when revenge or perceived inadequacy is a motive or the motive for misbehaving.

A Diner’s World

It has been said before in many different ways, but it all boils down to the same thing and applies equally well to learning: “Different strokes for different folks.” “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” “What’s food for one may be poison for another.”

Digestum, Ergo Learnum

I digest, therefore I learn.I know that this is worse than pig Latin, and I admit that this is an extremely crude way of summing up the learning process.  But I’ll stand by it anyway: “Digestum, ergo learnum.”
We know that nourishment is feeding the body, filling its need for proteins and carbohydrates and all that other stuff.

Your child’ sociological preferences

The thing to remember at the outset is that no one learning style is better or worse than another.  The preferences that comprise an individual learning style are simply part of being a person, being unique.

Making a difference through learning styles

It has been said before in many different ways, but it all boils down to the same thing and applies equally well to learning:

Self-esteem education

The development of self-esteem ultimately needs to go beyond a collection of activities. At its heart, self-esteem education should touch every part of a child’s life, and should manifest itself in all the ways parents help a child handle conflict, overcome obstacles, and meet challenges.