Today’s show reveals the true, horror story of what too many children go through in our educational system when they are mislabeled, misdiagnosed and wrongfully medicated — this, all in the misguided effort to handle children who are “different.” Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Melissa Binstock is now a 22 year-old college student and author of the book, Nourishment: Feeding my Starving Soul When My Mind and Body Betrayed Me. Visit her website: www.nourishmentthebook.com ...
Sep 19, 2011•24 min
Today’s guest with Roger & Virginia on The Learning Curve is Murray Bass, the founder and president of Tools of Learning for Children at www.tools4preschool.org This is part 2 of our interview with Murray. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Murray is an 83 year-old retiree who has some children enjoying reading books as early as 3 years-old! His “wards” are routinely doing it at age 4! What a remarkable story this is. The Mission Statement of Murray’s registered Section ...
Sep 12, 2011•23 min
Today’s guest with Roger & Virginia on The Learning Curve is Murray Bass, the founder and president of Tools of Learning for Children at www.tools4preschool.org Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Murray is an 83 year-old retiree who has some children enjoying reading books as early as 3 years-old! His “wards” are routinely doing it at age 4! What a remarkable story this is. The Mission Statement of Murray’s Tools of Learning for Children organization is: “The Founders of...
Sep 05, 2011•29 min
Access for Knowledge Learning — Empowering the Child Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS This week’s The Learning Curve is Part Two of our interview with Dean Larson, Director of Access for Knowledge Learning Centers. www.accessforlearning.org The mission of Access for Knowledge Learning Centers is to: Empower kids to know that they know by providing an environment that promotes both academic excellence and personal growth for students of all ages. This week’s Learning Curve ...
Aug 29, 2011•29 min
This week’s guest on The Learning Curve is Dean Larson, Director of Access for Knowledge Learning Centers. www.accessforlearning.org Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The mission of Access for Knowledge Learning Centers is to: Empower kids to know that they know by providing an environment that promotes both academic excellence and personal growth for students of all ages. Is this something you want for your child? If so, listen to the principles and techniques you can lear...
Aug 22, 2011•29 min
This is Part 2 of Roger & Virginia interviewing Terry Neven, the Administrator of the Sundland Home School Program. Terry founded Sundland in 1981. In 2008, Terry, Sundland and their attorneys won the case before the California Supreme Court that established as law the right of caring parents to home school their children. This win established the precedent that affected home-schooling rights for all Americans. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Terry runs the “Home Scho...
Aug 15, 2011•31 min
Roger & Virginia interview Terry Neven, the Administrator of the Sundland Home School Program. Terry founded Sundland in 1981. In 2008, Terry, Sundland and their attorneys won the case before the California Supreme Court that established as law the right of caring parents to home school their children. This win established the precedent that affected home-schooling rights for all Americans. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Home School Legal defense: http://www.home-sch...
Aug 08, 2011•27 min
Roger and Virginia interview Michelle Vallene who reveals how to best be your child’s most important teacher. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Michelle Vallene is a qualified school teacher and the co-founder of Learners Lane which offers enrichment programs for children ages 4-12 and can be found at www.learnerslane.com . Michelle is the author of the book: What Children Need to Learn to Read , which book was written because when her children were young she could not find...
Aug 01, 2011•29 min
Roger and Virginia discuss how Virginia uses the secrets of the Seven Barriers to Comprehension when tutoring adult learners in her evening classes at Literacy Partners in New York . Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Hear how Virginia discovered the secret to her own learning style and also overcame the learning problems she had as a child in school. She found that it wasn’t her fault — it was the fault of the teaching style and practice that actually prevented her from “ge...
Jul 25, 2011•27 min
Today’s guest on The Learning Curve is Jonathan Lewis, Editor-in-Chief of Home School Enrichment Magazine. Home School Enrichment Magazine is a bi-monthly print magazine, but also on-line at: http://homeschoolenrichment.com / Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS This is a must hear show for parents who want good grades for their kids. There are now more than two-million children being home-schooled in the US, with numbers fast increasing each year. Jonathan reveals that home-s...
Jul 18, 2011•24 min
Roger & Virginia interview Mira and Mark Halpert of www.3DLearner.com . Mira is a practicing school teacher who has been featured on CBS showing her revolutionary answers to the “learning disabilities” experienced by those labeled as being “dyslexic.” What people see as a disability Mira sees as a learning difference, and she proves it with her success handling students as revealed by the CBS program. See www.3dlearner.com/parents Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS What ...
Jul 04, 2011•30 min
Roger & Virginia interview Mira and Mark Halpert of www.3DLearner.com . Mira is a practicing school teacher who has been featured on CBS showing her revolutionary answers to the “learning disabilities” experienced by those labeled as being “dyslexic.” What we reveal in this show are the extraordinary abilities and true potential these children (and adults) have along with how to best harness and take advantage of what conventional wisdom sees as a “disability.” Mark and Mira reveal a statist...
Jun 27, 2011•31 min
Dr. Gordon is an educator who has done it all. Here is Dr. Gordon at his outspoken best, blowing the whistle on the fallacies inherent in the current system of “teacher evaluation” and on the system that gives us the current scenario of school administration. Dr. Gordon is the author of the no-holds-barred book: The Emperor has No Clothes: The Crisis in American Inner City Schools. (Available through Amazon.Com). Dr. Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration, and has consulted for many ...
Jun 20, 2011•33 min
Listen to Jenna describe how she helps adult students overcome their past study failure and win at learning. Jenna is the Adult Basic Education Center Coordinator for Literacy Partners, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides free literacy classes for New Yorkers. Here she oversees more than a hundred current students and forty volunteer tutors who teach the classes, serving adults with grades 1-5 reading and math skills. Jenna has vast experience dealing with students tackling grades 1-5....
Jun 13, 2011•22 min
Roger and Virginia interview Dr. Robyn Odegaard PhD., on issues concerning the keys to great teamwork and harmonious relationships in families, sports teams and the corporate workplace. “Doc Robyn” reveals the Nine Secrets to Great Teamwork. Doc Robyn is President of Champion Performance Development ( www.ChampPerformance.com ), Founder of the Stop the Drama! Campaign ( http://on.fb.me/hYwJ4e ) and author of the soon to be available book Stop the Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. Her do...
Jun 06, 2011•24 min
Roger and Virginia interview Dr. Robyn Odegaard PhD., on issues concerning the drama of upset relationships and disharmony in families, sports teams and the corporate workplace. “Doc Robyn” reveals the 7 No-Fail Secrets to Stop the Drama. Doc Robyn is President of Champion Performance Development ( www.ChampPerformance.com ), Founder of the Stop the Drama! Campaign ( http://on.fb.me/hYwJ4e ) and author of the soon to be available book Stop the Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. Her docto...
May 30, 2011•28 min
Michelle Vallene is a qualified school teacher and the co-founder of Learners Lane which offers enrichment programs for children ages 4-12 and can be found at www.learnerslane.com . Michelle is the author of the book: What Children Need to Learn to Read , which book was written because when her children were young she could not find easy-to-use resources to help her kids build early literacy skills and prepare them for school. Her three children are teenagers now, and the project to help them on...
May 23, 2011•29 min
This is a no-holds barred interview with Dr. Gordon giving us first-hand in-the-trenches findings of facts regarding inner city minority student performance, why it is and what needs be done to improve it. Dr Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from NYU, a Master’s in teaching from Harvard. He has had numerous publications and a book on the subject: The Emperor has No Clothes: The crisis in American Inner City Schools . (Available thru Amazon.Com). He has consulted for many school...
May 09, 2011•25 min
This is a no-holds barred interview with Dr. Gordon giving us first-hand in-the-trenches findings of facts regarding inner city minority student performance, why it is and what needs be done to improve it. Dr Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from NYU, a Master’s in teaching from Harvard. He has had numerous publications and a book on the subject: The Emperor has No Clothes: The crisis in American Inner City Schools. (Available thru Amazon.Com). He has consulted for many school ...
May 02, 2011•26 min
This is Part Two of our interview with Dr. Roger McIntire PhD, who is the author of Raising Your Teenager: 5 Crucial Skills for Moms and Dads and Raising Good Kids in Tough Times. Dr. McIntire is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Maryland, where he taught for 32 years. An award-winning columnist, McIntire shares his wisdom in the Martinsburg (WV) Journal and other publications. As a child psychologist, a consultant and a teacher of teachers in preschools, grade schools, high ...
Apr 25, 2011•28 min
Dr. Roger McIntire PhD, is the author of Raising Your Teenager: 5 Crucial Skills for Moms and Dads and Raising Good Kids in Tough Times . Dr. McIntire is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Maryland, where he taught for 32 years. An award-winning columnist, McIntire shares his wisdom in the Martinsburg (WV) Journal and other publications. As a child psychologist, a consultant and a teacher of teachers in preschools, grade schools, high schools and colleges since the 1960s, McIn...
Apr 18, 2011•25 min
In this show, Roger interviews a father who saved his son’s education by using the principles revealed in the book; How to Learn-How to Teach : Overcoming the Seven Barriers to Comprehension . Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post The Learning Curve – Hear a Father Tell How He Saved His Son’s Education appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net ....
Apr 11, 2011•17 min
This week’s show reveals more of the barriers you need to be aware of and be sure to overcome if your child is to get good grades. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post The Learning Curve – More Barriers That Block Learning appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net ....
Apr 04, 2011•26 min
This show focuses on the vital information all parents, teachers and students need to know if they are going to be truly successful in their learning or teaching activities. This show deals with three of the barriers to learning and how to prevent them. It also gives you answers on how to detect and undo the damage done when your child or student is suffering the effects of these learning barriers. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The post The Learning Curve – The barriers...
Mar 28, 2011•28 min
This week’s Learning Curve is about your child’s method and style of learning. We each have our own method of learning—and you should allow your child to do it it’s way! You can’t dictate this to a child. If you try to dictate how your child should learn, you’ll crush the kid and give them losses. Similarly, you must strive to facilitate an optimum balance between cause and receipt (the child being causative versus being made to inflow from the parent/teacher) in the learning process. If you vio...
Mar 21, 2011•25 min
