February 2010 Blog Posts
Have you ever wanted to dig deeper into your students’ Learning Styles? Have you wondered what it implies for a child’s learning when they are highly holistic or internally motivated? Have you looked at a group profile and compared it to your own Teaching Style Analysis report?
Now you can.
When: 1 - 31 March 2010
Where: online
How much: EUR150
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LEARNING STYLES
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Recommended for teaching principals, tutors, active classroom teachers and educators
who already have some experience with Learning Styles and want to gain better understanding of practical applications of style diversity in the classroom
When: 1 - 31 March 2010
Where: online
How much: EUR150
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IT’S A LEARNING STYLE NEED
Did you know that the habit of hair chewing / nail biting discussed in last week’s blog can often be mistaken for bad behaviour?
The need for chewing or snacking when you’re supposed to be doing homework is a matter of the child’s Learning Style. It should be recognised for what it is: a comforting action under pressure or to relieve boredom, which also seems to help with problem solving.
Sadly, the need for intake (chewing) is often interpreted as neurotic behaviour because the more it’s forbidden, the greater the need and it could then lead to...
“Take that hair out of your mouth!”
“Stop biting your nails!”
“Have you eaten the other half of the bookmark?”
“Don’t suck your collar.”
“Don’t chew the pencil.”
“If you carry on biting your nails, you’ll get an infection.”
If this is a familiar mantra in your household, wait. Before you start painting your child’s fingers, pens and clothes with bitter substances, try to get to the root cause of the problem.
Every child has their own...