How Your Child Learns Best: Brain-Friendly Strategies You Can Use To Ignite Your Child's Learning And Increase School Success

How Your Child Learns Best: Brain-Friendly Strategies You Can Use to Ignite Your Child's Learning and Increase School Success

From the Inside FlapMessage from Goldie HawnDr. Judy Willis is a trailblazer. Speaking as a mother and grandmother, she is also my hero! I met Judy when I read her article on the neuroscience of joyful learning. I was overjoyed to know there was someone in the field of education who was addressing the importance of creating a more joyful classroom. I called her straight away. A vibrant voice resounded in my ear, and we discovered a great commonality.I am the founder of the Hawn Foundation, which is dedicated to creating a more self-aware approach to learning with more focus, joy, and confidence. Our mission also includes helping teachers, children, and parents learn more about how the brain functions. We have brought physical education into our schools--why not mental education? Dr. Judy Willis has taken the reins and is one of the pioneering forces who supports new and exciting ways to help parents understand and be a part of helping their children learn in a fun and exciting way.This book, parent-friendly and without brain-speak jargon, is filled with specific enjoyable activities including games, investigation, and interested-based enrichments that will increase your child's connections to what he or she learns at school. Dr. Willis book is what parents have been searching for and need now more than ever.As I see it, our children are little seedlings, all different, all full of budding potentiality. The educational system today unfortunately does not teach the child, it teaches the child to test. The beauty of this book is that now you as a parent can help individualize school subjects for your child, because you can make the subjects come alive through everyday experiences, whether waiting in the local grocery store line or on journeys to exotic places together on the Internet.I knew nothing about neurology and how the brain worked. I didn't have a Judy Willis on my bookshelf that I could reference to understand how children's little brains worked--much less my own. I have since learned so many important facts about brain development from her. By learning the basics of brain function (and it's not difficult), we pick up a magic wand that empowers us to help our children.With technology moving so fast--cell phones, computer games, and MP3 players, not to mention the untamed media-- it is more and more challenging for our children to focus for long periods of time. How does this constant input of static affect the brain? How do our children process all this information? How can they learn when there is an overload of incoming noise? How can we best help them? In this book Judy leads us through the amazing, fantastic, magical, brain in ways that illuminate us.Judy speaks tirelessly all over the world to teachers, school superintendents, and policymakers. She is recognized as one of the leading experts in brain-friendly learning. She shows us now how to help our children truly learn and remember facts, as opposed to simple rote memorization, which is like sand that disappears from a squeezed palm.At last we parents have a reference book to enlighten our own brains and help guide us in assisting our children's growth and flowering.In closing, may I say that Judy is a vibrant, curious, brilliant woman who is passionate in her pursuit of new ways to help children learn joyfully. Through this book, she is offering us the gift of insight. Dive in fearlessly. You will find a treasure trove of wonder. You will experience a lot of ah-ha moments, and it may change the way you see your children forever.Thank you, Judy, for continuing to inspire and teach.--Goldie HawnDr Judy Willis in now on the board of the Hawn Foundation.Brain-Based Strategies You Can Use Today to Enhance Your Child's Love of LearningHow 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