How to Reach Those Under-Performing Kids
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a solution to every child’s learning struggles? Sadly, there isn’t but, there is something that can help the majority of children in schools.
visual thinking
7 Gifts for Your Creative Big Kid
I know you’ve already filled your house with markers, crayons, pencils, paper and all sorts of other things to keep the kids creative. So now what can you get your creative, visual thinker? I have found some great ideas to utilize those right brain skills and keep the kids creating.
What No One Tells You About Your Child’s Future
In the 21st century, the importance lies with being an independent multi-tasker who can think on her feet, deal with change, and devise multiple solutions to a problem that hasn’t yet happened.
Podcast: Does Your Child’s School Understand?
In episode 27 of Living Life as a Visual Thinker, I answer a parent email about a second grader whose school wanted to have him tested for ADD.
ADD…. Not Always a Deficit!
Approximately 11% of children 4 to 17 years of age have been diagnosed with ADD as of 2011, and it’s most commonly diagnosed in 7 year olds. That’s an alarming statistic, but we can turn the negatives of ADD into positives by understanding and applying the success strategies used with visual-spatial learners.
Easy Essay Writing
For visual learners it can be difficult to transfer the plethora of thoughts and ideas from their busy minds onto paper. I have created a downloadable pdf to help you teach your visual learners to organize their thoughts before writing the essay.
How to… Write an Essay
Children have a lot of visual memories that need to be translated to words. Talking things through before writing helps get the creative juices flowing and brings specific memories to the surface.
How to Control the Chaos
With four young, curious kids, our house was always a hub of creative activity. I knew we’d better have some order to it all or we’d drown in our own swirl of creativity. There were schedules, structure and lots of order behind our “chaos.”
STOP the Struggle!
Do you have a messy, disorganized, distracted, fidgety kid in your life that doesn’t seem to be connecting the learning in the classroom and questions her intelligence?
Abe Lincoln and the Best Grandma Ever
Its one thing to know your child is a visual learner and understand their challenges in the classroom, but once we know it- we have to figure out what we can do to make it better for them.
