How Your Child Learns Best

by Judy Willis

Brain-Based Strategies You Can Use Today to Enhance Your Child's Love of Learning How 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 your child's success in school. Written by Judy Willis, MD, MEd, a board-certified neurologist who is also a full-time classroom teacher, How Your Child Learns Best shows you not only how to help your child learn schoolwork, but also how to capitalize on the way your child's brain learns best in order to enrich education wherever you are, from the grocery store to the car - a necessity in today's "teach to the test" world. By using everyday household items and enjoyable activities, parents of children ages three to twelve can apply targeted strategies (based on age and learning strength) in key academic areas, Discover how to help your child increase academic focus and success, lower test stress while increasing test scores, increase class participation, foster creativity, and improve attention span, memory, and higher-level thinking. How Your Child Learns Best shows how to maximize your child's brain potential and offers something for every parent who wants the best for his or her child. "At last we parents now have a reference that will help guide us in assisting our children's growth and flowering. This book is what parents have been searching for and need now more than ever." - from the foreword by Goldie Hawn

Genres: Parenting, Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2008

Reviews

[Michael Kon · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are looking to understand your students in your classroom and finding a way to increase/ promote learning in a positive way then this book is a must read for educators. Nothing much on the early years and focuses are more on elementary education. It is a good read to remind us how we at times are being pressured by the standardized test scores/ performance based system and forgetting the joy of learning. There are hundreds of strategies listed in helping your child to learn at their best in reading, mathematics etc.

[Mindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

So first off, I don't have kids, but I was curious about whether or not anything in this book was transferable to the older learner. Turns out there was lots, withing the first 20 - 30 pages there's some really good stuff about how our brains function and learn and the different broad categories of intelligence that exist for humans. For instance, if there as a test I'd say I'd score relatively high in the linguistic intelligence area, but I'd fail miserably at visual spatial intelligence.

This books sets out to categorize broadly the learning styles, encourages parents to work with their kids to figure out the child's learning style and then sets out ways you can leverage this to your kids learning advantage. I loved the tone, it was very collaborative between parent and kid, and it definitely encourages breaks and different kinds of learning.

Overall I learned some new stuff about learning so it's an easy recommend.

[Lime Street Labrador · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent advice

[K. Isaure · Rating 5 out of 5]

How Your Child Learns Best

“I am more of an auditory learner and this book taught me that time, effort and patience to learn my style of communication and way of retaining and retrieving information is important. Throughout my years of schooling, I struggled with fine gross motor skills and have adapted techniques to help me overcome them in small ways. As I get older, I realize that my learning disability is an asset and that I can use my auditory learning skills to my advantage and create a plan of action that works for me and that I can stick with, grow with, and flourish I independently on my own terms both in reading, writing, and understanding information. I do not have to learn like anyone else. I do not have to process information like anyone else. I do not have to write information like anyone else. I can do it in my own unique way. That is good enough for me. I am satisfied with that.*