Every evening, Johnny sits at the dining table to do his homework. Nearby, the goldfish are frolicking in the fish tank. He watches their bodies glisten as the light hits them.
“That’s fascinating!” he thinks.
He’s intrigued.
Category Archives: Listening
Reality…About Children Learning and Mothers/Teachers Teaching
This post is the follow-up to yesterday’s: https://www.florencecallender.com/dreaming-about-children-learning-and-mothersteachers-teaching/
“Life is like a departure lounge. The place you end up depends on which ticket you bought.” ~ Dr. Dion T. Harrigan
When children are born, they each come with their own “equipment.”
Law enforcement officers turn to their fingerprint files when searching for a criminal. The doors to some high-tech offices are now opened by the eye-print of the person seeking access. Blind people identify the person addressing them by their voice-print. An approaching individual can be recognized by his gait. The identity of a dead person may be ascertained by his dentition.
Dreaming…About Children Learning and Mothers/Teachers Teaching
“When you have the privilege of changing someone’s brain, you not only change his or her life, you have the opportunity to change generations to come.” ~ Dr. Daniel Amen
“No! You can’t have her. She is mine,” I screamed, and grabbed on to my daughter’s ankles. With super-human strength, I pulled her down into my arms…away from the woman who had snatched her.
With a baleful glance, the evil-looking woman slinked away.
Learning for Success in School and Life…The Visual-Spatial Way?
A few years ago, I went to visit my friend during my vacation time. When I walked into her home, I straightened up immediately. Everything was in order.
You know the stuff your parents tell you as a child like, “A place for everything, and everything in its place?” She followed that principle.
I peeked into her closet. The clothing hangers were all white. And not only were her clothes sorted by category, but also by color.
4 More Listening Tips for Learning Success
Good listeners are good learners. Conversely, a struggling listener is a struggling learner. Why? Because Listening is:
- A whole-brain, whole-body experience that connects us to the world outside of ourselves and is the most basic precursor to interaction, speaking, reading, and writing.
- Our primary modality for connecting and communication with others.
- A foundation for the higher-level skills associated with academic learning.
4 Listening Tips for Learning Success
In life, of all the language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing – listening is used more than the other three added together. Children (and adults) can learn a lot through listening. Regrettably, this is not an instinctive skill. Listening must be taught and developed.
Driving home, last week, I noticed some activity on an empty plot of land. There was a tractor digging a deep hole. Nearby, I saw a stack of concrete blocks. A house was going to be built on the property. Preparation was being made. The first step was laying the foundation…a solid foundation.
Do Boys Have More Trouble Learning Than Girls?
The National Center for Educational Statistics tells us that boys are 30% more likely to fail or drop out of school.
Now get this – according to education achievement data, there are more “boy geniuses” than “girl geniuses.”
They also outnumber girls in the top 1% of the IQ scale.
Why then are so many boys struggling or failing in school?
Learning for Success in School and Life: Endangered Species – The American Boy
According to Ryan D’Agostino of Esquire.com, if you have a son, there’s a one in seven chance that he has been or will be diagnosed with ADHD…a psychiatric condition. By high school nearly 20% of all boys (6.4 million) will have been diagnosed with ADHD.
Meet Stephen Tonti, a successful businessman who grew up with the “disorder.”
As Stephen gave his story in the video above, he brought out some key points:
Upside-Down Teaching?
Theories about learning styles abound, and can become confusing. However, the newest discoveries in brain research have made things simpler by looking at thinking and learning from the perspective of the different functions of the two hemispheres of the brain.
Neuroscientists have described the left hemisphere of the brain as auditory-sequential. Left-brain functions include language, reading, writing, science, mathematics, logic, analysis, and time-orientation. Left-brain thinkers and learners appear rational, objective and reality-based.
Autism is Speaking…Are You Listening?
This month, April, is Autism Awareness Month. Did you know that?
Every day, I work with children. As they carry out the tasks and activities in our intervention sessions, I notice traits in some of them that are listed in the symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
There’s Jay who gets very upset if I change the schedule for therapy, even just slightly. Don has to sit in the same seat every time, and keeps up a conversation whether you respond or not. Then I have Ray who speaks in a no-inflection monotone, through almost-clenched teeth.
Do you know someone who is autistic?
They usually have difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors.
Over two million people in the United States are autistic. On March 27, 2014, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that they classify around 1 in 68 American children as on the autism spectrum–a 30% increase since 2008.
Do you find that alarming?