Teaching the Spontaneous Disposition Student
LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS Spontaneous Disposition people prefer subjects and activities that are entertaining by nature, have immediate relevance, offer variety and challenge, provide hands-on experiences, and give plenty of opportunity to move, act, and do. They learn...
Relieving Homework Stress – and now it’s ALL Home Work!
This article was originally written with homework in mind. Now that ALL school work is home work, it seemed like a good time to remind parents and teachers of these strategies for different learners. Tactile-Kinesthetic Learners Hands-On and Whole Body Learners need...
LearningSuccess™ Tip: Reminder About Lighting
People are affected differently by various lighting situations, which can then affect focus and concentration when learning or working. Is the lighting bright or low, natural or artificial? If artificial, is it incandescent, fluorescent, or full-spectrum? Fluorescent...
Sitting, Standing, Or…?
While some students need to sit up at a table or desk to do their best work or thinking, just as many do better in other positions. Reclining or sitting on a bed, couch, bean bag chair, or the floor are alternatives. Still others need to be standing up, perhaps...
LearningSuccess™ Tip: Sound Matters
People are affected differently by various sounds or noise levels when working or studying. This goes for adults as well as young people. The sounds in their environments can greatly affect focus and concentration. Some people need complete quiet when they need to...
Disability Diagnosis vs Strengths Focus
Did you know that the majority of the population are Hands-On or Picture Learners? Yet most teaching is geared for Listening and Print learners who are also schedule-oriented, linear learners. These people make up about 1% of the population! These are the 3-5 students...
Opportunities versus “Mistakes”
Parents often ask what they can do when their children become upset over mistakes they’ve made on school work. For example, a mom reported that her son became very upset when he took a quiz and missed one question. He did not focus on the 9 out of 10 that were...
Success Leads to More Success!
You might think this is an obvious statement, and yet there are many adults who don’t understand what this means. Students who continuously experience failure, day after day, do not know what success “feels” like. And they do not know what to do to...
Which Brother is More Talented?
I love this story. It goes like this… “A bricklayer has a brother who is a gifted and famous violinist. One day the head of the construction company he works for says to him: ‘It must be fine to have such a renowned man for a brother.’ Then, afraid...
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