ELSK Teleseminar/podcast

colleen — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

This week, I have created the very first ELSK Teleseminar/podcast. I am hoping to create many more of these telephone interviews/discussions. These will provide education and awareness around the existing solutions for students struggling to learn or working too hard for their grades!

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Statistics as discussed on the teleseminar:

Every 29 seconds another student gives up on school, resulting in more than one million American high school students who drop out every year.
Nearly one-third of all public high school students-and nearly one half of all African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans-fail to graduate from public high school with their class.
There are nearly 2,000 high schools in the U.S. where 40 percent of the typical freshman class leaves school by its senior year.
The dropout problem is likely to increase substantially through 2020 unless significant improvements are made.
Dropouts are more likely than high school graduates to be unemployed, in poor health, living in poverty, on public assistance, and single parents with children who drop out of high school.
Dropouts earn $9,200 less per year than high school graduates and more than $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates.
Dropouts were more than twice as likely as high school graduates to slip into poverty in a single year and three times more likely than college graduates to be unemployed in 2004.
Dropouts are more than eight times as likely to be in jail or prison as high school graduates.
Dropouts are four times less likely to volunteer than college graduates, twice less likely to vote or participate in community projects, and represent only 3 percent of actively engaged citizens in the U.S. today.
The government would reap $45 billion in extra tax revenues and reduced costs in public health, crime, and welfare payments if the number of high school dropouts among 20-year olds in the U.S. today, which numbers more than 700,000 individuals, were cut in half.

Source: http://www.silentepidemic.org/epidemic/statistics-facts.htm

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4 Simple Steps To Understanding the Benefits Brain Training

colleen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:15:45 +0000

Yes, you have done it all for your child. You've braved the overwhelming meetings with the school, you've even done the multiple tries with the tutors. You've offered your child millions of incentives to please just try a little harder and catch up to their peers. You've tried to re-teach your child a full day of learning once they get home from school but you are so burnt out you can't go on like this much longer. The good news is that brain training can help your child and your family regain their sanity …. fast! Read these simple 5 steps to understand the benefits of brain training.

Step 1: Understanding why Children Need The Gift of Learning

Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report from Promise Alliance, 2008. "When more than 1 million students a year drop out of high school, it's more than a problem, it's a catastrophe," said former Secretary of State Colin Powell, founding chair of the Promise Alliance.

Our nation is recognizing and trying to take action to help our children become educated and creative contributing members of society. However, our children are dropping out because they can or they are bored. The U.S. Dept. of Education states that 80% of learning difficulties are from weak cognitive skills. Our children just give up by the time they get to High School. They are not able to keep up because they do not have the ability to learn easily and efficiently.

Step 2: Recognizing a Child Can Become A Lifetime Learner

An important part of education must be to assess every child for their cognitive ability and not the average of their cognitive skills (IQ). Our children deserve the right to education and why shouldn't that include making sure the child has the ability to learn? Well, until that happens, we must recognize that, as parents, we can take control and give our child the gift of learning. Science has proven to us again and again that our brains can change. These changes in the brain are what give our children the ability to learn. Your child's brain can create new pathways while strengthening their cognitive abilities. If your child is given this chance, then reading and learning will improve and become easier.

Step 3: Train your Child's Brain Frequently and with Intensity

Science tells us that with consistent intensity and challenge, our brains will change. This is known as neuroplasticity. Brain training programs should use a methodology that allows for individualization, immediate feedback, adaptation, intensity, variation, levels of complexity and enjoyment. A child must be trained with a certain methodology and motivation to allow for neuroplasticity to be successful. When the child is engaged and motivated, chemicals are released in the brain that allows learning to stick and be successful.

Step 4: Train the Key Cognitive Skills needed to learn

Since all cognitive skills are integrated – meaning they impact each other – and drive a child's ability to learn, these skills should be trained at the same time. Brain training should be set up to target your weak skills but be able to train all necessary cognitive skills.

Understand that there is hope for your child based on the research that states that our brains are able to change at any age. Brain training is a viable and affordable option to help children overcome learning difficulties.

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