All motion creates emotion and the focus of this article is to highlight this point and its relevance to children learning and improving numeracy through various learning strategies.
Movement is such an important thing and we all know that children are at their happiest when able to move.
However, the logistics of teaching in school means they if they were moving around all the time it would be total chaos and there would be little or no improvement in their numeracy.
But what about in the home?
The expectation is again that children will sit quietly and get on with learning and homework.
It is really important to realise that this expectation leads to a lack of motivation.
However, the parent at home has a great advantage over the formal setting of the school and that is that children can be encouraged take part in learning strategies that involve moving about. The resultant increased motivation to learn, and to do it for longer periods, greatly increases children's numeracy.
We have developed a number of systems that use movement as one of the keys to learning and tapping into the increased motivation that this brings.Please feel free to download any of our articles and reports particularly those focused on speaking and movement as the key to improving numeracy.
Children can be walking up and down the room, play acting, anything that gets them using movement. So, the whole process becomes more like play and fun and their motivation is raised and their numeracy significantly improved.
You can create a superb learning environment in the home and outside and by using a combination of movement, learning, and memory techniques, you will be able to see a marked difference in your child's behaviour, their ability to retain knowledge, and a greatly improved numeracy performance in the classroom. by Alan McMahon
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