The Toprakci Method: Creating Confident Learners

Tani Toprakci, M.Ed•www.creatingconfidentlearners.com

The Toprakci Method: Creating Confident Learners specializes in creating confident learners with a growth mindset. The Toprakci Method uses a unique combination of breathwork, brain-body work, GRATITUDE, and even a clay-based learning program to affect the neuroplasticity of the brain to help dramatically improve students’ ability to spell, read, grasp number sense, and focus. STRUGGLING students CAN be transformed into CONFIDENT LEARNERS who become academically successful-permanently (!) - in a remarkably short amount of time. Follow @creatingconfidentlearners

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Delayed Gratification

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!In modern society, we have relatively little practice in delayed gratification: everything is at our fingertips in terms of instant rewards. In this episode we look at the parallel between teaching to the whole child and creating a sense of delayed gratification to help with academic success. We also look at the parallels to creating true wealth and true health as both authors Candy ...

Oct 04, 2023•16 min

The Mind's Eye and Balance

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!In this episode we explore how balance helps with focus and retention of academic materials. Even though it may seem counterintuitive, by taking the time to help smoothen out both processing and focus, core academic skills can then be addressed from a place of focus without the struggle that was taking place before with a greater rate of retention of the material. The pace becomes qu...

Sep 27, 2023•17 min

Laser Focus and Energy Dials

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!In this episode we look at how to create laser focus in children in a kid-friendly way which helps with better retention of academic materials. Resources: The Foundation Course is now available!! Sign up at: www.creatingconfidentlearners.comIt’s available both as a one-time purchase or as a monthly subscription with extra support through a private support group for both parents and educati...

Sep 20, 2023•14 min

Q&A: What’s your biggest takeaway from your diverse teaching experience?

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!Question and Answer Episode! Q: What do you feel like your biggest takeaway has been from such diversity in the places you’ve taught?This is the first podcast episode of this kind! Stay tuned to hear the response!Resources:The Foundation Course is now available!! Sign up at: www.creatingconfidentlearners.comIt’s available both as a one-time purchase or as a monthly subscription with e...

Sep 13, 2023•16 min

Awareness versus Focus

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!We talk about the difference of focus versus awareness in school. We look at how memorization techniques in academics isn’t enough and helping kids with developing some grit for school when other things outside the classroom come so easily to them. Students need to be able to explain themselves fully to show their understand rather than glossing over or rushing through assignments for true...

Sep 06, 2023•20 min

Setting Matters

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!We look at the effects of environments, and how we can use environments and ritual to influence more positive habits in ourselves, children, and students. Positive environments have an imprint that affects both the brain and body and signals to them what to do in that space. By creating a set environment and/or time, often some of the procrastination and other resistance behaviors to doing...

Aug 09, 2023•17 min

The Quickest Route to Academic Progress

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!In this episode we look at what the quickest route to academic progress is. We talk about how one-on-one tailored teaching to gaps in knowledge often lets kids transfer skills and focus to other settings, like the classroom, where before they couldn’t. How school works for the majority of students, but how about 15% of students get lost in the mix. In this episode we talk about:...

Aug 02, 2023•21 min

How a Butterfly Gets Its Wings

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!In this episode we look at how letting kids struggle is actual good for the learning process. That with scaffolding, a healthy amount of effort and struggle, actually helps them become stronger , more confident, and more independent as a learner.I share a beautiful story about a butterfly that illustrates this fact so clearly. And why— even though it sometimes makes us uncomfortable to wat...

Jul 26, 2023•16 min

Reflections from Bali and Travel

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!In this episode we talk about my recent trip abroad to both Bali and Australia and the insights and connection I made with education. We also talk about The Foundation Course and creating a solid foundation using the key components of TTM: Creating Confident Learners: the breath work, the gratitude, the balance, the brain-body work. There are so many tools jam-packed into this ...

Jul 19, 2023•12 min

The Importance of Good Literature

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode, we look at how the type of books and literature children reads affects all other areas of academics. The types of books they read does matter! Summer is the perfect time to combat “summer brain” by reading really deep texts and books- and having fun with it! They can traveling in time and space through the books they choose to read independently this summer. ...

May 31, 2023•15 min

The Importance of "Simple" Tasks

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we look at the importance of small tasks and how everything builds upon each other one step at a time. We talk about how simple tasks are important in their own right and how they snowball over time with consistency and discipline to master foundational skills and create banks of successes for kids. I go deeper on how to make progress tangible for kids and how important i...

May 24, 2023•16 min

Number Sense

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we dive deep into number sense and what that actually means. We talk about the importance of having solid math skills and foundation as well as mental math ease with the four major operations. We talk about the importance of number sense and confidence in oneself to excel in mathematics. We also look at the importance of making sure your child has their multiplication fac...

May 17, 2023•17 min

Is Your Child a Visual or Phonetic Learner?

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we look at what it means to be a visual or phonetic learner, and why it’s so important to know the difference. By teaching visual learners visual-based tools we can avoid bigger problems. In this episode we talk about two visual based learners who once given the right toolset, started to identify as readers where before they struggled. We look at the fact that visual-base...

May 10, 2023•17 min

Practice Makes Permanent

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠As my good friend and Peloton instructor, Denis Morton, says “Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent.” We explore in this episode how important it is for students to master skills correctly and, in particular, the mechanics and the neuromuscular patterning of letter writing. We look at how that indicates how well a student will do with the pace of school and assignments. We al...

May 03, 2023•13 min

Breathwork and the Brain

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we will look at how the breath and teaching breathwork affects the structure of the brain. We revisit and explore the neuroplasticity of the brain. We look a little at the science and what the breath does for the body. We explore one of the breathwork exercise that I use with students at the beginning of every session. In this episode we talk about: How breathwork af...

Apr 26, 2023•11 min

The Importance of Gratitude

Like what you hear?? ⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠What is gratitude? Why is it important? What little things are you grateful for? And how does that make you feel in your body? AND how does it apply to academics?In this episode we look at how gratitude can change what a child perceives, what they notice, and how that applies to supporting their academic journey. We try out a couple of exercises to explore perception and look a little dee...

Apr 19, 2023•16 min

Welcome!

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learns to help support us grow! In this first episode, we look deeper at how to create confidence in learners through influencing the brain-body connection using The Toprakci Method. We look at teaching the whole child and creating foundational skills to change the synaptic connections of the brain and influence the internal state. We explore the brain-body connection and look at how a child is processing and thinking; and the ...

Apr 12, 2023•15 min

The Toprakci Method: Creating Confident Learners (Trailer)

Mar 13, 2023•58 sec

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