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engage with:
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Principals
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Leadership teams
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Teachers
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Parents
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Students
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support:
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Strategic planning
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Performance planning
- Performance
- Using a coaching style
- Presenting skills
- Adjusting for different
learning styles
- Subject and Career choices
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Help for Square Pegs in Round Holes
… Why one-size-fits-all education does not work.
We are all born with a dominant brain pattern.
These brain patterns, the genetic part of our
personality, show outwardly as particular behaviours.
For more than 5000 years, four main patterns (or
Temperaments) have been observed in all populations and in all ages.
Each of these observed groups (listed below as 'curious’, 'colourful', 'crusading'
and 'conservative'), has a dominant
learning style and motivation for learning.
As a whole, the education system tends to use the
learning style and motivation characteristics of the conservative group as the model for many education programs.
This means that the majority of children are being
forced to conform to a system of learning which is often de-motivating and
ineffective at bringing out the true potential of the majority of children.
Added to this mismatch between children’s learning
styles and the standard adopted style, is the discrepancy between the distribution
of the teachers’ styles and the general population (including students). (See
chart below)
It is no wonder that there are many children feeling
like square pegs in round holes!
Where children are struggling with a system or
environment of learning which is unnatural for them, it is essential that
parents have the tools to be able to advocate for them, while maintaining good
relationships with teachers.
Having the information about these important
differences in learning and teaching styles, and being able to discuss the
differences confidently with teachers, are two of the critical tools that
parents need.
Sustainable
Change can provide parents and children with the information (personal and individual)
to discover the learning style and other Temperament preferences to deal with
the mismatches in the learning and teaching environment.
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