Some more thoughts came to me since I wrote Tuesday’s post on Teaching the Right Brain Child that I felt might be beneficial to add. Right brain thinkers begin to feel dumb if they continue to have difficulties throughout their school years.  Most textbooks (if not all) are written for left brain thinkers so it will take some searching to find books that you can use for your homeschooling adventure that will work for the right brain child who struggles.  Dianne says, “They love it when you show them how to learn so that things stick instead of slip.  Help them get in touch with the smart part of themselves.  When you learn to ‘teach to…

The classes by Dianne Craft that I went to at our homeschool convention here in Arizona, were so enlightening.  Dianne has many years of experience teaching children with disabilities.  You can read my post about Dianne Craft and struggling learners here. She taught a few classes on how to recognize whether your child is a right brain or left brain child and how to teach the right brain child.  Here is an article from her website about Teaching the Right Brain Child. Now for some notes of what I learned… Some characteristics of right brain learners: * Spontaneous * Imaginative * Intuitive (understands reading material, even if he doesn’t know all…

In lieu of my normal Week in Review, I am going to share some of what I learned this weekend at our homeschool convention.  I am so very excited to have learned this information and I can’t stop telling people about it, so dear readers, you get to be a part of it, too! I went to a workshop by Dianne Craft whose specialty is Special Needs and she also has become a nutritionist.  Her website is here at diannecraft.com. Dianne was an excellent speaker, doing an incredible job sharing the knowledge she has learned in the last 35+  years helping children who have learning difficulties.  She was also quite…