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Personal Blueprintsfor Learning & Life Success

copyright 2006-2009 Reflective Educational Perspectives, LLC

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 marriages end in divorce

• 40% of adults are on Prozac

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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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Personal blueprints for success...

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

is successful

• Your Job: coach your kids and students to develop

blueprints so their lives are successful

• Our Job: to coach you, the Parents & Teachers!

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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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Kids see themselves...

• valued?

• intelligent,

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 / student’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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Belonging & Acceptance

Emotional Safety

Competence

Choice

TM

Fun

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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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LearningSuccess Writing...

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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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WonderNumber®

Game

• Performing Disposition

• Visual Picture

• Hands-On

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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.

They can use a “facts” table or…

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A Calculator

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

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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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.learningsuccessprofile.com

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Personal Blueprintsfor Learning & Life Success

copyright 2006-2009 Reflective Educational Perspectives, LLC

LearningSuccess™ Institute