Education & Learning

Education & Learning

by | Jun 23, 2016

Education & Learning

Education & Learning

Learning Math

If you know, love or teach children who struggle with their math facts and factors, Play Math can help. Listen in and see how Dr Lynne Kenney can change the trajectory of children’s math learning in primary school.

 Giftedness

Rethinking Education

Below are great TEDtalks by Sir Ken Robinson.This quote from YouTube “Sir Ken is a TED icon having given three presentations on the role of creativity in education (His 2006 talk has attracted over 27 million views and seen by an estimated 250 million people worldwide) and changed the lives of many. In 2011 he was listed as “one of the world’s elite thinkers on creativity and innovation” by Fast Company magazine, and was ranked among the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top business thought leaders.

Sir Ken comes from an arts in education background influencing the formulation of the National Curriculum in England. For twelve years, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick, and is now professor emeritus. He has received honorary degrees and honours for his services to the arts and education from many institutions around the world. Sir Ken is a best-selling author and co-author of a wide range of books, reports and articles on creativity, the arts, education and cultural development. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts.

Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

How to escape education’s death valley | Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

Life is your talents discovered | Sir Ken Robinson In this terrific and witty closing of TEDxLiverpool, Sir Ken Robinson argues that talent is often buried and that we need to search for it. In fact, the foundation of wisdom may be the willingness to go and look for it.

Ken Robinson on Passion | Sir Ken Robinson  LECTURE @THE SCHOOL OF LIFE: Sir Ken Robinson believes that everyone is born with extraordinary capability. So what happens to all that talent as we bump through life, getting by, but never realizing our true potential?

Sir Ken Robinson: The Element.  | Sir Ken Robinson discusses how finding your passion changes everything.

Bring on the learning revolution! | Sir Ken Robinson In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.

Educating the Heart and Mind  | Sir Ken Robinson speaks during the Dalai Lama Center’s Educating the Heart Series. He discusses the importance of an education that educates not just the mind, but also the heart.

Early Development & Skills

Prepare your child for writing, but not the way you think. Discover Waldorf Education: Form Drawing, a Threefold Perspective In spite of its apparent simplicity, Form Drawing has a powerful effect upon the Primary School child in the Waldorf or Steiner setting. Experienced Waldorf teacher Eugene Schwartz demonstrates how a simple Grade One drawing can impact the child’s physical, etheric, and astral bodies. In spite of the fact that the latter two bodies are invisible and intangible, Eugene manages to capture them on film. For more information, visit www.millennialchild.com.

Discover Waldorf Education: Writing & Reading, Part 1 This video, the third in a series, looks at the unique approach taken by Waldorf schools to the teaching of writing and reading. Eugene Schwartz explains the emphasis placed upon the kinesthetic and spatial dimensions of becoming literate.

Discover Waldorf Education: Writing & Reading, Part 2 This video, the fourth in a series, looks at the unique approach taken by Waldorf schools to the teaching of writing and reading. Eugene Schwartz explains the emphasis placed upon the recapitulation of the cultural stages that lead to the development of writing and reading.

Waldorf Math Lesson: Circle Multiplication Table  An easy and concrete way to learn the times table. Kris Carlson demonstrates the circle times table during a typical Waldorf math lesson.

Math Number Wheel Circle to learn multiplication & Place Value Numbers make fun and fascinating patterns as we create the times table. Math times table created from fun patterns as a way to learn multiplication tables for Eights and Twos. This video also teaches place value. This video has the student create worksheets where they can learn the times tables. This is useful for teaching math in a classroom, at home, as part of homeschool or as fun homework. Right Brain Math can teach Elementary Students. Curriculum Review magazine calls it a revolutionary approach to introducing math. It is also very effective for remedial math for students who have fallen behind in math. Learning the multiplication tables are crucial for a student taking algebra. The Right Brain approach has helped many kids who have a negative attitude about math or numbers. Right Brain Math is an easy, effective, visual method of teaching multiplication as well as addition, subtraction, or division. It also helps students learn factors. Because it uses visual and auditory patterns as a teaching strategies, it appeals to many learning styles because it emphasizes patterns and puzzles and overviews. Kids see the big picture of the multiplication tables first, and then understand how the individual factors relate to each other. https://RightBrainMath.com

Math Times Tables for 3, 6, 9 multiplication from MisterNumbers   Math multiplication table tricks using patterns on Tic-Tac-Toe Squares for the Threes, Sixes, and Nines. MisterNumbers math tricks will rock you as you learn multiplication for the 3 6 and 9 times tables in this video and the Sevens, Fours, and even the whole times table on other videos. This is fun for homeschool math or in a classroom. Teachers and parents will find this lesson for math times tables fun for students and for the Teacher. See other Mister-Numbers videos to see right brain ways to learn the multiplication times tables using overviews, math patterns, and visual puzzles. Math times table created from fun patterns as a way to learn multiplication tables for Threes, Sixes, and Nines. This video also teaches place value. This video has the student create worksheets where they can learn the times tables. This is useful for teaching math in a classroom, at home, as part of homeschool or as fun homework.  https://RightBrainMath.com

Right Brain Math: Times Table Overview & Fun Factor Sets  Great visual patterns and overviews of how numbers work from a right brain perspective. Tom Biesanz (Mister Numbers) shows how the patterns look and how they relate to families of factor numbers.
Math times table created from fun patterns as a way to learn multiplication tables.  https://RightBrainMath.com

Multiplication: Learning Times Tables for 8s and 2s Click this link for a free worksheet on the Twos and Eights on an Atomic Wheel.
Math times table created from fun patterns as a way to learn multiplication tables for Eights and Twos. This video also teaches place value.

Homeschooling

Are home-schooled children smarter? Research conducted by Sandra Martin-Chang, an assistant professor in Concordia’s Department of Education, shows that children who were home-schooled scored higher than their peers in seven different subjects. In this segment, she discusses the challenges and rewards of assuming responsibility for your child’s learning with Wendi Hadd, a sociology teacher at John Abbott College who home-schooled her children.

Research

Investigating the Effects of an Audio-Guided Mindfulness Intervention for Elementary School Students and Teachers

Mindfulness in the Classroom

Healthy Habits of Mind: How teaching mindfulness skills and compassion practices  improve executive function skills in the classroom, such as sustained attention, focus, interpersonal skills, lowered aggression, etc.

Internet Business

Internet Business

by | Nov 28, 2015

internet business

Internet Business

 

Business has now expanded to the internet. Even offline businesses have an online presence to increase their reach. I have included below various resources I use myself and have found them to be quite beneficial for my business.

  • If you are looking to set up your own website and earn some income online, are not tech savvy and need step by step guidance, The Internet Business Mastery Academy (IBM) is what you are looking for. Step-by-step video tutorials and strategies very well laid out. Here is a sample of their home page and its modules. It also includes a private Facebook mastermind group.
  • The Fast Track to Automated Income: a quick efficient way to start an online profitable business and how to get more traffic to your website. It includes step-by-step modules, private mastermind group, action guides and templates, email support and so much more.
  • Have a product you need to launch online. Get over 6 hours of training on how to run a successful launch online. It walks you through the process from start to finish. Get access to the Backstage Pass on how to launch successfully.
  • How to work less and accomplish more every day. Learn the secrets of successful entrepreneurs to get the things done
    that matter… and enjoy your lifestyle to the fullest.
  • Here is the link to the Internet Business Academy Blog and Podcast. They have tons of free content to help you with your internet business. If you are hesitant about investing in business coaching, sample their awesome free guidance and maybe this will convince you to push your business to the next level in less time.
  • Here is a free video that will teach you How to Uncover Successful Online Income Streams in 3 Minutes or Less.

Self Help

Self Help

by | Sep 5, 2015

Self-Help

 

  • Mel Robbins has created this fabulous FREE 35-day Mindset Reset Workshop. I highly recommend it. You can do it with your kids, your partner, friends. You can even involve yoru whole team at work to increases productivity. The videos are all uploaded on YouTube. You can sign up for free here. Also, she offers a free sample of her 5-second journal. It was designed based on the latest research.

 

  • Are you struggling with infertility? Having a hard time finding a mate? Read her research using only the highest standard of double blind in the areas of love, fertility, hormones, women’s health and yes, a section on men sexuality. Well worth visiting. Dr Winnifred Cutler from the Athena Institute. They also sell high quality Pheromones (the real ones) and fall in love again with your partner, aid your fertility, become more attractive to men and women!

 

  • Embrace the totality of who you are. Break negative patterns by understanding them and uncover your shadow. Curious? Watch this movie. The Shadow Effect with Debbie Ford. Hay House describes the movie well “Be uplifted by the power that is hidden beneath the surface of your conscious mind. Take this emotionally gripping, visually compelling journey into your mysterious shadow self—the hiding place for your most disliked thoughts, emotions, and impulses—and discover how by embracing your worst fears, you can step into your greatest self. Be transformed by Debbie Ford, the #1 New York Times best-selling author and internationally acclaimed expert on the human shadow, as well as some of the most brilliant and evolutionary thinkers of the 21st century. Be inspired to uncover the wisdom in your wounds, the blessings in your misfortunes, and the gifts that are waiting to be claimed where you may least expect them . . . in the dark. In this groundbreaking and revolutionary interactive movie experience, be guided through eight transformational exercises to uncover, own, and embrace what has been hidden in the dark—keeping you from stepping into your greatest dream. If shadows could talk, they would tell you that there is gold to be mined in every experience.” Dig deeper and get the interactive movie and shed light on your dark side and be liberated. Get rid of the bonding shackles in your life.
  • Non violent communication with Dr Rosenberg (Video 1) (Full Workshop)
  • Great self-help books here.

Caroline Myss is my favourite teacher. I have learned so much from her throughout the years. From her work on Archetypes, why people don’t heal, how our biography becomes our biology, to personal power and self-esteem. I am including here quite a library of powerful videos. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I have and I hope that these videos will give you pause for reflexion and seriously re-consider how you relate to yourself and others. Have a look at her library of free videos, wisdom words through her blog, on-demand workshops, online education, Reflections Webinars.

Why We Search for Personal Power & Self Esteem

Medical & Spiritual Intuition

Going Deep: Using Archetypes to Explore Personal and Global Change

The Power of Meditation and Prayer

Going Deep: Using Archetypes to Explore Personal and Global Change

Power Choices

Her books/CDs/DVDs: All best sellers: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing; Sacred Contracts; Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can; Defy Gravity : Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason; Invisible Acts of Power; Entering the Castle; Invisible Acts of Power; Archetypes; Advanced Energy Anatomy; Self-Esteem: Your Fundamental Power; Essential Guide for Healers; The Language of Archetypes: Discover the Forces that Shape your Destiny…. and there are so much more….

John Bradshaw – Healing The Shame That Binds 

This lecture is based on John Bradshaw’s book with the same title. He covers the first part of the book (the problem). The second part of the book deals with (the solution) and the healing process. In an emotionally revealing way John Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions,co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to super-achieve. The result is a breakdown inthe family system and our inability to go forward with our lives. We are bound by our shame.Drawing from his 22 years of experience as a counselor, Bradshaw offers us the techniques to heal this shame. Using affirmations, visualizations, “inner voice” and “feeling” work plus guided meditations and other useful healing techniques, he realeases the shame that binds us to thepast.This important book breaks new ground in the core issues of societal and personal breakdown, offering techniques of recovery vital to all of us. 
Many parents use shame to discipline their kids or simply use shame in their interactions with their kids. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures. This 6 part series will bring you many insights into how to become a better parents, more present, more loving. Parents all mean well, but there is always room for improvement. 
You can read a few good quotes from the book here.  The first 65 pages of the book are here.
Part 1 –  Part 2 –  Part 3 –  Part 4 –  Part 5 –  Part 6



John Bradshaw – Homecoming – The Problem of the Wounded Inner Child

Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often “lose it” in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it’s worth the struggle? Or are you plagued by constant vague feelings of anxiety or depression? If any of this sounds familiar, you may be experiencing the hidden but damaging effects of a painful childhood—carrying within you a “wounded inner child” that is crying out for attention and healing. In this powerful seminar, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. Through a step-by-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage, we can break away from destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. Then, says Bradshaw, the healed inner child becomes a source of vitality, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living. Homecoming includes a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including questionnaires, letter-writing to the inner child, guided meditations, and affirmations. Pioneering when introduced, these classic therapies are now being validated by new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience. No one has ever brought them to a popular audience more effectively and inspiringly than John Bradshaw.

Part 1  –   Part 2 –  Part 3 –   Part 4-   Part 5 –   Part 6 – Part 7 – Part 8 –  Part 9 –  Part 10

Self Care for Moms and Dads

Self Care for Moms and Dads

by | Sep 5, 2015

 

  • Are you struggling with infertility? Having a hard time finding a mate? Read her research using only the highest standard of double blind in the areas of love, fertility, hormones, women’s health and yes, a section on men sexuality. Well worth visiting. Dr Winnifred Cutler from the Athena Institute. They also sell high quality Pheromones (the real ones) and fall in love again with your partner, aid your fertility, become more attractive to men and women!

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