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Personal Blueprintsfor Learning & Life Success

LearningSuccess™ Institute

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• more than 95% of kindergartners feel good about themselves; more than 98% of high school seniors do not feel good about themselves

• 50% of students who begin college drop out

• In 1985 - 500,000 labeled ADD• In 2006 - more than 6 million ADD

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How to get different results...

• Victor Frankl - holocaust survivor & author of Man’s Search for Meaning:

finding a meaning for their lives having a purpose for living contributing to others’ well being

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People need a purpose...

The Three Stages of Mission:

1st Mission here on Earth: to know God, enjoy Him forever, and see His hand in all His works.

2nd Mission here on Earth: to do what you can...to make this world a better place...

from How To Find Your Mission in Life, by Richard N. Bolles

These first 2 missions are shared by everyone.

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Your unique mission...

Your third Mission here on Earth is one that is

uniquely yours

to exercise that Talent which you particularly came to Earth to use—your greatest gift, which you most delight to use.

in the places or settings which God has caused to appeal to you the most.

and for those purposes which God most needs to have done in the world.

from How To Find Your Mission in Life, by Richard N. Bolles

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Personal blueprints for success...

• Architects & Engineers: it’s their job to develop blueprints so the project

is successful

• Your Job: coach your kids to develop blueprints so their

lives are successful

• Our Job: to coach you, the Parents!

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Teach them who they are...

by

discovering

their

learning

styles

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Learning Styles: The Key

Two kinds of people!

1. on time / list / schedule /

organized people

2. all the others!

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Learning Styles: The Key

• Group #1

too rigid, inflexible, no fun?

• Group #2

disorganized, irresponsible,

uncaring?

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Who gets the A’s?

• only 3 - 5 students in a classroom

get all the A’s

• they usually become teachers,

secretaries, and executive

assistants

they come from Group 1!

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Lost Potentials!

• the majority of inventors, scientists,

entrepreneurs, musicians, poets

philosophers, artists of all kinds,

missionaries, and creative people...

come from Group 2!

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Lost Potentials!

• these are the kids who are often labeled

ADD, ADHD, Dyslexic, Learning Disabled...

• these are the kids who experience failure

almost daily in school

• these are the kids who don’t realize how

smart they are and that they have unlimited

possibilities...

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Lost Potentials!

• they don’t realize they could

go to college

start their own businesses

go to graduate school

go after a specialized career

choose what they want to do!

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Bring out the STAR!

• each child’s special learning styles

need to be acknowledged and

encouraged if each child is to grow

up to be the person...

God meant him/her to be!

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Kids see themselves...

• respected,

valued?

• capable?

• worthy of

happiness?

• bad, wrong?

• stupid,

incapable?

• unworthy unless

he “shapes up”?

as we see them!

What are we giving them evidence for on a daily basis?

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Begin with LEARNING success!

• Become your child’s best

LearningSuccess Coach!

• Follow the Success Laws:

Learning doesn’t have to hurt! Success leads to more success! Coaching brings out the Star!

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5 Aspects of Learning Style

DISPOSITIONS • Performing • Producing • Inventing • Relating/Inspiring • Thinking/Creating

MODALITY • Auditory - Listening, Verbal • Visual - Picture, Print • Tactile-Kinesthetic - hands-on, whole body, sketching, writing

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LearningSuccess Spelling...

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Brainstorm Map

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4-W’s Map

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Character Sketch Map

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ResearchMap

1-Page report to1000-page thesis!

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Talk/Presentation

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LearningSuccess™Multiplication Facts… 8’s

Pictures,Rhythm & Rhyme

• Visual- Picture Modality

• Auditory- Verbal

• Music Talent

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LearningSuccess™ Multiplication Facts… 9’s

FingerGames

• T/K Hands-On

• Body Coordination Talent

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TeachPatterns

WonderNumber®

Game

• Performing Disposition

• Visual Picture

• Hands-OnInteractive Dimensions 805.526.7335

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T/K: Hands-On

TouchMath®

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Allow students to go on to higher math conceptseven though they may not have “memorized” the basic facts.

The MostPainless, MostFun Way To Learn MathFacts

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A CalculatorProvide periodic“check up quizzes” without the chart or calculator to see what facts remain to be learned.

It’s fun! It’s fast! It is engaging! It’s here to stay!

When allowed to use a calculator most students will spend 30-50% more time doing math, get more right answers, experience more success, & have more fun—while learning basic facts along the way.

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Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the

way he should go,

and when he is old

he will not turn from it.

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Proverbs 22:6

• Did you know?

In Hebrew “in the way he should go” means

“according to his way.”

Hebrew word for “way” is “derek”

“Derek” literally means bent and refers to a

unique inner design or direction.

from Different Children, Different Needs by Charles F. Boyd

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Proverbs 22:6

A more accurate rendering:

from Different Children, Different Needs by Charles F. Boyd

Adapt the training of your child

so that it is in keeping

with his natural design;

when he comes to maturity,

he will not depart from

that pattern of life.

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Ephesians 6:4

• Did you know the second part of that

verse says...

And, parents,

do not nag

your children,

lest they lose heart.

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Coaching our children...

• Learning styles are about coaching our children to discover who they are as unique creations of God and what God has in mind for them

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Key to LearningSuccess™

Find out what’s RIGHT with you...

Find out what’s RIGHTwith your child!

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Learning Styles Online!

Immediate Results

Automatic Scoring

Printable Recommendations

www.learningstyleprofile.com

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Personal Blueprintsfor Learning & Life Success

LearningSuccess™ Institute