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A survey of high school principals in all fifty states indicates 95% believe participation in activities teaches valuable life lessons. Participation in sports simply helps students have a better attitude.
Committing to having your student involved in a sport or school related activity will prove to have far reaching benefits. Your student will improve academically, socially, be more involved in the community, and have a higher predisposition for succeed later in life.
As a parent, the most important thing to remember when sending your student back to school is that they need your help and guidance in order to be successful. Time management and organization for a student of any age is important at school, but also in the home. The precedent modeled at home will be reflected at school. Doing simple things like committing to a schedule including time for chores, homework, dinner, and family time on a nightly basis will create consistency in your student’s life.
UBC’s Learning Commons diagram has expanded on David Kolb’s Experiential Learning theory to include new factors in learning brought about by online technologies we use today. The integrated theory now includes Honey and Mumford’s experiential learning theory, which follows the same pattern as Kolb’s.
Similar to Kolb’s learning theory, Honey and Mumford view [...]
Do you sometimes feel as if you want to open your skull and inject some magic serum into your brain just to make it work? If you ever felt frustrated with your studying methods, then stepping back and seeing how the learning process occurs might help you figure out the best method for you to [...]
Perhaps, APD is more of a learning disorder than ADHD because it involves auditory processing, which is necessary for interpreting information through verbal communication. As we all know, verbal communication is necessary in the learning process.
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) symptoms include difficulty in paying attention and remembering information when coursed through multiple modes, such [...]
Let us look deeper into ADHD and understand how this disorder came to be. Some experts believe that people who have ADHD retain some of the “hunter” characteristics associated with pre-agricultural humans. ADHD behavior works well when applied in work that require searching, such as treasure hunting, or tasks that take risks or involves competition, [...]
Among schoolchildren, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is the most common diagnosis by child psychiatrists today. This disorder has been controversial for many reasons, one of which is the frequent over-diagnosis of ADHD.
Some teachers, in-home tutors and parents see children who display too much energy or talk too much as disruptive, which leads them to [...]
More than thirty years ago, the existence of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Auditory Processing Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder were unheard of. Today, these three disorders were the bane of many children who had to take medication, undergo counseling, and go to special classes that help them cope with schoolwork. As a result, in-home tutors and [...]
Most parents and teachers think play and study are two different activities. One is merely recreational while the other is more practical. In the past, parents see playing as wasting the time better spent on rote learning.
Today, the opposite happens as parents view schoolwork as too overwhelming for children that they do not have [...]
Studies on human development show that children learn through play, which involves experimentation, exploration and experience. Their intense curiosity and lack of inhibition drives children to explore their world and test different theories no matter how bizarre they may seem.
Left alone, children can learn by discovery, which is a form of self-learning. This [...]
Children with autism live inside their own little world, which is separate from the rest of us. Unlike other children, they have difficulty relating to others or their environment. Even their parents may have a hard time relating to them.
Autism carries a wide range of manifestations. Some children may have delayed motor-skills development. Some [...]
The learning process involves four steps: receiving, processing, storing and retrieving. For learning to occur, all senses must work together to receive data – sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Learners use sight, sound and touch more often than the other senses.
There is Lack of Perception
Learners absorb the information they gathered through their [...]
Observe your child or ask your child’s teacher or in-home tutor how well your child is doing with school and homework. Professional tutors and teachers usually sense when the child has a learning problem. To help you in determining your child’s learning abilities, read the following symptoms [...]
Dyslexia is the most common cause of problems in writing, spelling and reading. About 20% of the population has some language learning disability and about 80% of them have dyslexia.
Children with dyslexia often have a high level of intelligence, but they were often mistaken as slow [...]
Children with learning disabilities benefit more from in-home tutoring than ordinary students can. A trained in-home tutor can address the needs of a child with a learning disability on the educational and emotional level. Specialists and learning therapists can address the medical and practical needs of the child.
Some learning [...]
We all use Math in every aspect of our daily lives. From the measurements we make every time we prepare food to the number of coins we had in our pockets, Math inevitably proves itself a very useful tool. If we do not study Math well, then we will find it difficult to manage even [...]
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Children with ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) find studying a difficult task because of the intensity of focus required. Children with ADHD find it hard to stay put and focus. They have an extremely short attention span and often get distracted. The nature of their condition prevents them [...]
Optimal learning begins with identifying the seven learning styles that tutors can use to plan their lessons according to their students’ needs. Learning experts and educational psychologists identified seven unique styles of learning that each person prefers. When a tutor identifies the learning style of each tutee, he or she [...]
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