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  • 26/09/2008 - Help prevent child and teen suicide

    “I Love Myself" — a whole new way to explore feelings of self-worth; a book capable of creating positive lasting change at home or in the classroom. http://www.creativelearningcentre.com/Products/Books/I-Love-Myself/

  • 31/07/2008 - Working Styles in New Zealand Magazines

    Check out the August 2008 edition of NZ Business as well as the August 2008 edition of Father & Child. The article in NZ Business discusses whether multitasking may be bad for your business while Father & Child looks at your working style in terms of your parenting style.

  • 31/07/2008 - New Scientist makes it official:

    The amount of work piling up from your boss isn't the only factor to cause stress in the workplace. The working environment itself can also cause high levels of daily stress. Working too close to a loud colleague, lack of natural sunlight, not enough privacy or feeling unsupported by your colleagues can all cause angst. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11134?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn11134

  • 10/07/2008 - Young Americans are reading less for fun...

    ... and - not surprisingly - their test scores are dropping. The National Endowment for the Arts on Nov. 19 released a study entitled "To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence" about the reading habits and skills of children, teenagers and adults. The results show that Americans, especially adolescents, are reading less. Expanding on the 2004 report "Reading at Risk," the study looks at all varieties of reading, including that of books, magazines and newspapers. Compared to the rest of the world, American 15-year-olds rank 15th in average reading scores, behind such countries as Poland, Korea, France and Canada.

  • 26/06/2008 - Spell it out: why kids can't read

    Many experts believe that the problem with literacy has everything to do with the weird and quirky English spelling. (See http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10516238&pnum=0 for the full story.) But what do you think? Please visit our blog and let us know your views.

  • 03/06/2008 - AND THE WINNER IS.... LEARNING STYLES!!!

    141 schools in 37 project groups of 24 countries. The winner? "One Europe and Many Different Learning Styles". For more information please have a look at http://howdowelearn.googlepages.com/.

  • 15/05/2008 - Special Offer May 2008

    Buy WSA Combo before the end of May 2008 and get 20% off the retail price! Simply type this code U3D6B8J when making your purchase, then press "UPDATE".

  • 15/05/2008 - Special Offer May 2008

    Buy WSA Combo before the end of May 2008 and get 20% off the retail price!

  • 15/05/2008 - What makes children stay away from school

    Apart from the basic differences between holistics and analytics, our own international findings and studies in the United States have clearly shown that the learning styles of underachievers and drop-outs were significantly different from those students who remained in school. According to the Dunn & Dunn Learning Styles Model, eight learning style elements statistically differentiated between highly at-risk or drop-out students in comparison with their counterparts who remained at school ("Do Mismatches Between Instruction and Style Create ‘Dropoutism’?", St. John's University, N.Y., 1989). The eight strong needs in drop-out students are: 1. Mobility at frequent intervals; 2. A variety of instructional resources from which to learn (to match students' low auditory and low visual modalities and their strong preferences for tactile/kinesthetic learning - hands-on activities - and their strong need for variety rather than routines and patterns); 3. Learning difficult content at other times, not in early morning classes; 4. Recognition of their high motivation despite their inability to learn through conventional methods; positive feedback instead of put-downs; 5. Collegial rather than authoritarian teachers; 6. Resources which introduce new and difficult information through multi-sensory methods (kinesthetic, tactile, visual, auditory) to make learning easier and more appealing; 7. Informal seating arrangements in classrooms to respond to their inability to sit on plastic or wooden chairs for more than 10-12 minutes and their strong need for mobility; 8. Soft illumination which means avoiding fluorescent lights in classrooms.

  • 03/04/2008 - Our Learning Styles prevent violence in schools

    Read http://nz.lifestyle.yahoo.com/b/nzlifestyle/455/preventing-violence-in-schools for more details.

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