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How Learning & Behavior Can Be Affected by Diet
At our recent homeschool convention in Phoenix there was a speaker named Dianne Craft who has extensively worked with struggling learners and gave so much information to those of us who attended her class. You can read what I learned from her classes in Part I… “Do You Have a Struggling Learner”, Part II… Teaching the Right Brain Child and Part III… Additional Thoughts on Teaching the Right Brain Child. I went to Dinanne’s class called The Biology of Learning and Behavior not realizing just how much information I would glean. The name wasn’t too intriguing but I had received so much information from her in the previous classes that I…
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The Week in Review 7/25/10
Audrey, the little farm-girl, walks to the chicken coop every morning to collect the wonderful eggs the hens have layed. But as she returns from the gathering of the eggs, she spy’s something in the grass… something right at her feet… Set down your eggs, little lady, and look at it a little closer… Oh, it’s a delicate little mushroom. Alas for the tan colored ‘shroom it is given only a cursory glance before being cast from the yard. Now the little farmer girl can continue on her way… glancing hither and yon for more curiosities… The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker
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Additional Thoughts on Teaching the Right Brain Child
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…
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Teaching the Right Brain Child
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…
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Do You Have a Struggling Learner?
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…
