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Living Life as a Right Brain Thinker is a podcast exploring what it REALLY means to be a right brain thinker and how it affects us in school, our relationships and our careers. Right brain, visual thinking is creative, innovative thinking that is often undervalued and overlooked in education. Yet, it is critical to our success in the global marketplace! Join Bette as she explains what it is to be a right brain thinker, shares strategies to improve academic success and calls focus to the chan ...
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Doing homework with visual kids can drive the best of us crazy, but it’s hugely important you come to homework time without emotion or frustration. And if you can’t, then you’re not the right person for homework helper.Bette Fetter
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Back-to-school season is upon us! Parents have done so much to get children ready for the new year, so what's next? In my early years as a parent, I felt that I had done a great job in preparing my kids for school; they were in bed on time, had a healthy breakfast, finished their homework, and I was involved at the school. There is always the fine …
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Back-to-school time is upon us! There is much excitement in the air - new backpacks, new shoes, new teachers, new classmates! Parents are even excited about the return of school routines. Yet, there can be a bit of anxiety which accompanies the fun, especially for those visual learners who may have struggled in the past in certain subjects. It is i…
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I share great feedback from a parent about her second grade visual learner and especially her struggles with math. I have great ideas for how to help with math for your visual learner. Your school really has a lot of resources available but if the school is lacking those resources, there are also outside sources for tutoring in all sorts of academi…
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First and second grade is the time that most children are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. But many of the same characteristics of visual learners are the same traits that point to an attention deficit. If you are in this situation, be open to all the possibilities for helping them be more successful in the classroom.…
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From an overstimulating classroom environment to questionable discipline practices, first grade was a challenging experience for a visual learner. The expectations of high test scores and achievement just didn’t allow for differences in learning styles.Bette Fetter
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High school brings bigger, more detailed projects that require a lot more planning and organization. The reading requires a lot more evaluation and math gets much deeper into new concepts. The good news is that even in the upper grades, many of the same strategies work for helping your visual learner. Tune in as I interview a parent with high schoo…
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It is not often in business that you get to tell a story and get to feel that everyday, no matter what you do, you affected the life of a child. That you affected the life of lots of children in lots of places. Tune in to episode 24 of Living Life as a Visual Thinker and learn the passion and the purpose of Young Rembrandts.…
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