School Floors (eBook)

Barbara Pheloung (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Jeanette Liljeqvist (Verlag)
978-0-6483484-5-0 (ISBN)

Infos

School Floors gives information about things that can be done after the Move to Learn movement program as well as advice about how to get the program into schools. There are chapters on diet, nutrition, food additives, allergies, sound therapy, auditory processing, the effect of retained primitive reflexes, playground management and improving social interaction.
Particularly helpful are a quick functional vision screening test, a 'ready for school?' test and a 'what to look for before the third birthday' chapter.
There are exciting contributions by many leading educators, therapists and specialists in the field of learning difficulties including:
Veronica Steer, Dr Marilyn Dyson, Chris Chapparo, Margaret Greville, Pye Twaddell, Sue Larter, Sue Dengate, Jacqueline Lee, Sue Mackay, Julia Dive, Sue Mackay, Michelle Learmouth, Rachel Fisher, Winsome Richards, Mike Almond & Carol Hewatt.There are chapters explaining the importance of diet and dealing with sound therapy and auditory processing, as well as a section dealing with the effect of retained primitive reflexes & allergies on learning by Occupational Therapist, Veronica Steer and Dr Marilyn Dyson.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - My Journey

Chapter 2 - The Pyramid of Learning.

Chapter 3 - How movement could benefit those with Learning Difficulties - Veronica Steer, Occupational Therapist, Sound Therapist and Kinesiologist.

Chapter 4 - The signs and effects of oversensitivity to certain foods and food additives and the difficulties of changing what we eat. - Dr. Marilyn Dyson.

Chapter 5 - This chapter provides a description of a basic movement program that helps to prepare children for classroom achievement. It contains advice on how to introduce and implement the program and an explanation of Primitive Reflexes.

Chapter 6 - The New Pioneers

6a - From getting to the roots of her son's problem to those of many preschoolers - Winsome Richards

6b - Commonwealth Literacy Program - Margaret Greville

6c - A Teacher's Aide ends up teaching Teachers - Julia Dive

6d - Enhancing Learning through movement - Sue Mackay

6e - Move to Learn in the classroom - Michelle Learmouth

6f - A Remedial Teacher Converts her School to a Holistic Movement Based Approach to LD - Carol Hewatt

6g - Mental diseases and Learning Difficulties are both neurologically based - Rachel Fisher

Chapter 7 - Learning Difficulty Support Groups and how to start one.

Chapter 8 - Research

Christine Chapparo shares of how she brought Occupational Therapy into 2 schools.

Chapter 9 - Additional Resources

9a - Calming overactive and oversensitive children in the classroom - Veronica Steer.

9b - Sound Therapy and Auditory Processing - Veronica Steer

9c - Healing the Hurts

Various healing therapies to relieve stress caused by neurological, emotional and environmental imbalances.

9d - Food Journals

Michelle Learmouth, a classroom Teacher, shares examples of student journals.

9e - Getting Good Enough to Get on a Team

Additional movement activities to build skills for ball catching and throwing, bat and ball activities, handwriting and some social skills - Veronica Steer.

9f - How to Survive the Playground

Jacqueline Lee, an acting Headmistress, shares playground management techniques and suggestions of safe equipment.

9g - Parental Help with Movement Program

A Teacher, Sue McKay, shares the form she designed to ask for the help of parents with the movement program in the school.

9h - Applying for Funding for Early Assessment

Winsome Richards shares the letter she wrote for funding support for school entry assessment at South Kalgoorlie, Australia, Pre-Primary, 1998.

9i - Australian Dirty Dozen Additives

Sue Dengate, an Australian authority on nutrition and food intolerance, lists the worst 12 additives in our processed foods - as of December 2005.

9j - Quick Functional Vision Screening

Sue Larter, Behavioural Optometrist, explains 2 quick tests which can alert to possible visual immaturities.

9k - Ready for School?

Dr. Pye Twaddell, educator, describes her standardized Australian school entry test that can be done by any Teacher.

9l - Signs to Look for Before the Third Birthday

Simple things that parents can identify as immature development and then correct quickly.

9m - Nutrition and Biochemistry

Nutrition and food intolerance - Dr Marilyn Dyson

9n - The Green Shed Girls Learn about Social Interaction

Julia Dive, a teacher's aide, shares tips for improving self confidence and social skills of LD students.

9o - Drumming

Mike Almond, percussionist, shares an easy way for teachers and students to try drumming without the need for drums or much musical experience, only a sense of adventure.

9p - Movement and the Use of 3 dimensional Objects

Helps students to understand number work more easily.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Förder- / Sonderschule
• Schlagworte: allergies • diet • food additives • Nutrition • retained primitive reflexes and their effect on learning • understanding learning difficulties and developmental delay
• ISBN-10: 0-6483484-5-8 / 0648348458
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6483484-5-0 / 9780648348450