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Welcome to the Enlightening Learners instructional site
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." Loyd Alexander
The goal of this web site is to help students, parents, and educators facilitate better organizational skills in order to be more productive life-long learners.
New feature added to the Enlightening Learners website
I've created, and have plans to create more, instructional videos on how to use the Google calendar features, with the goal of providing support for parents and students who wish to save time keeping track of student assignments and events.
Video tutoring now available
Thanks to the purchase of a new computer Enlightening Learners is now able to provide on-line tutoring through the application skype. We've added a feature that allows readers and clients to know when we're online and available for video conferencing.
Tutoring sessions for 2010/2011are now being scheduled
Enlightening Learners Tutoring has had a wonderful and productive summer and feedback has been very supportive.
Learning Styles
Everyone should be able to articulate their own personal learning styles and know what they are. The good people of http://www.learning-styles-online.com/ have developed a great website that details the learning styles. The information contained on this post has been copied and pasted from their site.
Executive Functioning Skills Inventory
Executive Functioning is a term used by psychologists and teachers to describe the process of managing one's daily tasks, planning, and self-management . Below is the list of executive functions from Dr. Gioia and his colleagues. Included is a specific illustration of each executive function.
Getting ahead 2nd session
In our second session participants applied the new knowledge of Cornell Note taking with the goal of recording information in preparation for a test on the Latin American economy.
"Getting Ahead" introductory meeting
The "Getting Ahead" program has gotten off to a great start! At our introductory meeting parents and students completed an Executuve Functioing Inventory sheet which looks at students' perceptions of how their academic skills fair and we compare those results to parent perceptions. What's surpring is how critical kids, of all ages, are of their skills. In most cases the kids rated their skills lower than their parents. The survey can be found on the resources page of this site.
Summertime Learning Sessions Forming
Without practice, facts and academic skills are most susceptible to forgetting (e.g., Cooper & Sweller, 1987). Some evidence suggests that students loose close to 40% of what they've learned over the school year during the three months of summer vacation.
To curtail the effects of Summer Learning Loss, Enlightening Learners is pleased to announce three summer learning programs: "Transition to High School", "Reading To Learn", and "Getting Ahead Of The Class".
Each program is tailored to individual needs and designed for success.
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