- Honoring a Child's Learning Style: What Works With Different Kids and Why
- Could You Write That Down for Me? What It Means to Be a Visual Learner
- What It Means to Be a Kinesthetic Learner
- What It Means to Be an Auditory Learner
- Learning Styles: Working With Strengths and Weaknesses
- Parenting a Spirited Child
Reference Desk
- Is My Child On Track?
- Kindergarten Readiness
- Learning To Read
- Types of Schools
- Learning Personalities
- Standards and Testing
- Gifted Children
- The Early Years (3-5)
- The Middle Years (6-12)
- The Teen Years (13-18)
- Parent-School Connection
- Your Parenting Style
- Keeping Your Kids Healthy
- Extracurricular Activities
- Life Skills
- Thinking About College
- Special Needs
Learning Personalities
Different children have different personalities, and likewise, children have different intelligences and learning styles–some are visual-spatial learners, some auditory learners, some kinesthetic learners, and some a combination. By understanding your child's learning personality, you can tailor his environment or teach him tips to help him succeed in school and in life.
What You Need to Know
- Discovering A Child’s Learning Style Can Make All The Difference (Learning Forum International)
- Visual-Spatial Learner: An Introduction
- Recognizing Strengths and Affinities
- Learning and Thinking Styles
- How Children Learn: A Summary of Recent Brain Research
- Debating Natural Aptitude for Math and Science: Boys or Girls - Is There a Difference
How You Can Help
Raisin' Brain: Maintaining Homes for All Kinds of Minds
School is not the only arena in which children's minds need to be nurtured and expanded. Equally vital is the kind of education and brain building that a student undergoes at home. Parents can do much to establish a domestic milieu that helps every child to develop his or her very special and ...
Reference | All Kinds of Minds
Recognizing Strengths and Affinities
Sometimes in our haste to help children and adolescents overcome their weaknesses, we neglect the careful detection and cultivation of their strengths. Yet, in the adult world what counts most is the strength of an individual's strengths. Therefore, any student's educational planning needs to ...
Reference | All Kinds of Minds
The Critical Need for Kids to Think Critically
Sam honestly believes all the claims he reads in his junk email. He wants to respond and send money right away to some very suspect source claiming to help starving invertebrates in a country he has never heard of. Dan follows the lead of other kids, even when they are leading him astray. That got ...
Reference | All Kinds of Minds
The Role of Styles and Strategies in Second Language Learning
Consider the very different behaviors or strategies that individual students use to learn a new language. Shy, introverted, analytically-oriented Marianne learns Spanish through grammar drills and sentence analysis. Uncomfortable with spontaneous speech in Spanish, she rehearses as much as she can ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Making Connections: How Children Learn
Many parents, child care providers, and volunteers have instinctively understood the importance of the language activities they share with children beginning in the first years of life. These activities are not limited to reading, but also include storytelling, singing, and ordinary exchanges that ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Activities III -- Helping Your Child Succeed in School
Reading on the Go For children ages 7 to 9 Show your child that reading has value in everyday life. What You Need Map of your areas Bus, subway and/or train schedules for your area What to Do Children need to learn that ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Science - Developing Your Child's Scientific Understanding
Unifying Concepts and Processes Children can be introduced gradually to basic scientific concepts that will provide a framework for understanding and connecting many scientific facts and observations. In this booklet, we will focus on five concepts and processes taken from the National ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Science - Resource List
Publications for Parents American Association for the Advancement of Science. A Family Guide to Science. Washington, DC, 2003. (Available online at www.scienceeverywhere.org) American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ten Questions to Ask Your Neighborhood School about Local ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Helping Your Child Succeed as a Mathematics Student
Here are some things that you can do to help your child be a successful mathematics student: Visit your child's school. Meet with her teacher and ask how your child approaches mathematics. Does she enjoy it? Does she participate actively? Does she understand assignments and do them ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics: Bibliography
Ballen, J. and Oliver Moles, O. (1994). Strong Families Strong Schools. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Education. Dixon, R. C., Carnine, D. W., Lee, D-S., Wallin, J. and Chard, D. (1998). Report to the California State Board of Education and Addendum to Principal Report: Review ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
