Description
Brain-Based Strategies You Can Use Today to Enhance Your Child's Love of Learning
How Your Child Learns Best is a groundbreaking guide for parents that combines the latest brain research with the best classroom practices to reveal scientifically savvy ways to improve your child's success in school.
Written by Judy Willis, MD, MEd, a board-certified neurologist who is also a full-time classroom teacher, How Your Child Learns Best shows you not only how to help your child learn schoolwork, but also how to capitalize on the way your child's brain learns best in order to enrich education wherever you are, from the grocery store to the car - a necessity in today's teach to the test world.
By using everyday household items and enjoyable activities, parents of children ages three to twelve can apply targeted strategies (based on age and learning strength) in key academic areas, including:
- Reading comprehension
- Math word problems
- Test preparation
- Fractions and decimals
- Oral reading
- Reports and projects
- Science and history
- Reading motivation
- Vocabulary
Discover how to help your child increase academic focus and success, lower test stress while increasing test scores, increase class participation, foster creativity, and improve attention span, memory, and higher-level thinking.
How Your Child Learns Best shows how to maximize your child's brain potential and offers something for every parent who wants the best for his or her child.
At last we parents now have a reference that will help guide us in assisting our children's growth and flowering. This book is what parents have been searching for and need now more than ever. - from the foreword by Goldie HawnAuthor: Judy Willis
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781402213465
ISBN10: 1402213468
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Education
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | General
- Education | Educational Psychology
About the Author
Judy Willis, MD, M. Ed (Santa Barbara) a board certified neurologist and middle school teacher, has combined her training in neuroscience and neuroimaging with her teaching education and years of classroom experience. She is an authority in the field of learning-centered brain research and strategies derived from this research for use by parents and educators. Her articles connecting neurology and education have been published in numerous education journals.