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Discover Your Child's Learning Style: Children Learn in Unique Ways - Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning Success
Does your child learn best in the morning, afternoon, or evening? Does his reading comprehension increase or decrease when music is played in the background? Does she prefer to study alone or with others? According to nationally respected educators Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson, our children process information in a multitude of unique ways. What works best for one child is often counterproductive for others. By trying to force all children into the same learning mode we unfairly short-circuit their education as well as their intellectual development.Discover Your Child's Learning Style shows you how to assess and nurture your child's individual learning potential based on his or her talents, interests, disposition, preferred environment, and more. Inside is a step-by-step program of self-awareness tests that guide you to a better understanding of your child's unique strengths and weaknesses, goals and interests, and inner peace. You'll discover how to create the right atmosphere for learning in the home. Most important, you'll help your child excel not only in school but in life as well.
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Discover Your Child's Learning Style: Children Learn in Unique Ways - Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning Success
Does your child learn best in the morning, afternoon, or evening? Does his reading comprehension increase or decrease when music is played in the background? Does she prefer to study alone or with others? According to nationally respected educators Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson, our children process information in a multitude of unique ways. What works best for one child is often counterproductive for others. By trying to force all children into the same learning mode we unfairly short-circuit their education as well as their intellectual development.Discover Your Child's Learning Style shows you how to assess and nurture your child's individual learning potential based on his or her talents, interests, disposition, preferred environment, and more. Inside is a step-by-step program of self-awareness tests that guide you to a better understanding of your child's unique strengths and weaknesses, goals and interests, and inner peace. You'll discover how to create the right atmosphere for learning in the home. Most important, you'll help your child excel not only in school but in life as well.
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Discover Your Child's Learning Style: Children Learn in Unique Ways - Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning Success

Discover Your Child's Learning Style: Children Learn in Unique Ways - Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning Success

Discover Your Child's Learning Style: Children Learn in Unique Ways - Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning Success

Discover Your Child's Learning Style: Children Learn in Unique Ways - Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning Success

Overview

Does your child learn best in the morning, afternoon, or evening? Does his reading comprehension increase or decrease when music is played in the background? Does she prefer to study alone or with others? According to nationally respected educators Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson, our children process information in a multitude of unique ways. What works best for one child is often counterproductive for others. By trying to force all children into the same learning mode we unfairly short-circuit their education as well as their intellectual development.Discover Your Child's Learning Style shows you how to assess and nurture your child's individual learning potential based on his or her talents, interests, disposition, preferred environment, and more. Inside is a step-by-step program of self-awareness tests that guide you to a better understanding of your child's unique strengths and weaknesses, goals and interests, and inner peace. You'll discover how to create the right atmosphere for learning in the home. Most important, you'll help your child excel not only in school but in life as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781546684725
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 09/15/1999
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 290
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Mariaemma Willis, M.S., has been teaching developing educational programs, and conducting workshops for parents and teachers for 20 years.

Victoria Kindle Hodson, M.A., has 25 years of experience in education and has been writing educational materials for the past 10 years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsxi
Introductionxv
Part IGet on the Team1
1.The Eager Learner3
2.Success for Every Child13
3.Who C.A.R.E.S.?23
Part IIDo the Profile41
4.The Learning Style Profile: Getting Started43
5.Dispositions: The Way the World Sees Us65
a.The Performing Disposition: Move75
b.The Producing Disposition: Organize83
c.The Inventing Disposition: Discover91
d.The Relating/Inspiring Disposition: Interact99
e.The Thinking/Creating Disposition: Create105
6.Talents: Our Natural Gifts111
7.Interests: So Easy to Overlook135
8.Modality: More Than Auditory, Visual, or Kinesthetic143
9.Environment: Beyond a Desk and Four Walls161
10.Putting It All Together179
11.Follow-Through Activities197
Part IIICoach for Success209
12.Stay F.I.T.T.211
13.What About Learning Disabilities?229
14.How to Talk to Your Child's Teacher251
15.Educating for the Real World261
Epilogue: Some Last Thoughts275
Appendix I.Learning Style Profile Assessments277
Appendix II.Resources295
References311
Index317
About the Authors326
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