GETING STARTED / CHECKLIST
Going online to find learning solutions for your child can be daunting.
This site will direct you to the tools you are looking for, and give you the insight to make your own and your child's academic day more manageable with brighter outcomes!
Online learning offers a way to customize unique resources for your child’s unique learning needs.
Ask yourself: Why are you here? What information are you looking for to help your child? Do you have problems to solve, or are you just curious about how the educational system works, and how you can better manage existing resources.
Parents are often unaware regarding their children's strengths and weaknesses - whether there is a general processing shortcoming, or may even have a serious disorder.
Most children do not have professional diagnoses, let alone do their parents know how they process information to their brain and learn. Often diagnoses are based only upon observed behavior and treated with medications.
To navigate this site, it is best to follow the tabs in sequence to learn the current educational terms. A glossary has been provided. When you have completed the testing overview, you will find how your child processes information to his/her brain through the primary visual and auditory pathways.
At the bottom of each page tab, there will be a link to the next progressive section. All of the content is explained simply for fast review. If you know the content for that section, go on to the next with the link provided.
We will recommend specialized diagnostic testing, because few children can be evaluated in depth by the schools, due to shortage of personnel, funding, and time. We will tell you where to go and how to find specialists in your area to get a complete independent assessment and evaluation.
Based upon this important, new information, we will show you how to build a Dashboard of activities and homework assignments for each of your children, including how to organize your time with each child with unique Time Management strategies.
Then we will point you to many recommended links of various academic learning topics, even learning a foreign language(s).
Following, we will discuss how you can work successfully with your teacher and school, and how to participate in your child’s classroom.
Finally, there will be collaboration boards on how to visit and share with other parents with the same interests and concerns.
At the bottom of each page tab, there will be a link to the next progressive section. All of the content is explained simply for fast review. If you know the content for that section, go on to the next with the link provided on how to understand information processing.
Begin by going through a simple checklist, which is part of evaluating your child’s learning styles, strengths, weaknesses and personal interests. Once you determine these categories – you can begin identifying the right resources to help your child learn in just about every subject matter imaginable.
Getting Started Checklist
Grades K - 6
- Understanding visual and auditory processing – how does your child absorb information? There are five primary senses; taste, touch, smell, listening and visual. There are many others including kinesthetic and intuition. We tend to not learn academic information through taste and smell, so listening, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic are essential learning pathways.
- Determine skill level in each subject; 3’s reading, writing, arithmetic, plus spelling.
- How are they doing in these areas?
- Are they self starters and willing to take the initiative?
- What are my child’s interests? i.e. environment, music – playing an instrument, athletics – i.e. baseball and soccer, ancient history, cooking, crafts, working jigsaw puzzles, creating things, taking things apart and redesigning them, like Legos?
- Are class assignments completed in a timely manner? If they are too easy, do they ask for additional online learning engagement?
- Do they follow through with homework?
- Can they write simple essays with good thought flow?
- Do they understand and answer chapter review questions?
Grades 7 - 8
- Consider Your Child’s learning style – how do they absorb information? Visually or by listening?
- Are they focused and attentive in the classroom? Are they self-directed?
- Are they self starters and take initiative?
- Do they contribute to class discussions?
- Are class assignments completed in a timely manner? If they are too easy, do they ask for additional work?
- Do they bring home homework and complete it in a timely manner?
- Can they write well-thought-out and researched compositions?
- Are they well-rounded with extra curricular activities?
- Can they work in teams?
Grades 9 - 12
- Consider Your Child’s learning style – how do they absorb information? Visually or by listening?
- Are they focused and attentive in the classroom?
- Are they self starters and take initiative? Are they self-directed?
- Are class assignments completed in a timely manner? If they are too easy, do they ask for additional work?
- Do they contribute to class discussions?
- Can they write researched and declarative compositions?
- Do they bring home homework and complete it in a timely manner?
- Are they well-rounded with extra curricular activities?
- Can they work in teams?
Let's move forward to find out what information processing is, how it works, and how it fits into current educational trends, the following tab.
