Brain Boosters™ CD Content
Who will benefit from the Brain Boosters™ CD’s?Anyone who works with children needs to understand these kids inside and out. The strategies and interventions work for all children.
This is who has benefited from the insight in the past:
Parents of all children
Pre-school, elementary, middle and high school teachers.
Sunday school teachers, youth ministers and children’s church leaders.
School, community and private counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists.
Occupational therapists, speech therapists, social workers and tutors.
Home schooling families and alternative education teachers.
Adoption and foster care agencies and educators.
*The set contains two audio CD’s packed with Brain Booster strategies plus a third CD containing helpful videos and a valuable Workbook for professionals. This Workbook encourages teachers and professionals to follow along with the CD’s, make notes and develop their own academic and behavior plans for specific students. An invaluable tool.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
We have worked with over 1,000 intense children, with every diagnoses possible, so we guarantee you insight you cannot get anywhere else. Anywhere. We tutor, instruct and work directly with groups of students 210 days each year. We have teamed with preeminent researchers, scientists, special education experts and the world-renowned Amen Clinic to bring you the latest understanding of the human brain.
While all of our science-based interventions are research based, our emphasis will not be on theory. Rather, we will share with you actual case studies that demonstrate specific ways to deal with challenging situations. We are going to take you inside actual classrooms all across America, and share over 60 very practical classroom interventions that every teacher can implement. So let’s take a short tour of our content and 10 Brain Booster strategies.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY YOUR STUDENTS DO THIS?
Let me just be brutally honest. We know that it can be extremely frustrating working with more intense students, but we also know it can be incredibly rewarding. The truth is that you must understand what makes these students tick—otherwise, you will be relegated to day after day of frustration and misinterpreting motives.
Do you understand why intense children seem to be excellent attorneys, policemen and judges all rolled into one? Ever wonder why they choose the more difficult path? Do you struggle with how to handle children who are bossy, relate better to adults and younger children than peers, and have difficulty with transitions?
Does it frustrate you to see someone who is bright with advanced verbal skills shut down when asked to write a simple assignment? Do you find yourself completely baffled by their irrational behavior? Ever find yourself saying, “This child is so smart. If he would just apply himself and try, he could do so well”?
We will help you identify and effectively neutralize two of the most insidious causes of lack of concentration in the classroom: anxiety and sensory integration issues. We’ll explain why our kids like to chew, hum and make noises. We’ll discuss ways to combat impulsivity, blurting out, OCD qualities and disorganization. And we’ll equip you with the following practical tools.
Brain Booster # 1: Every classroom needs a traffic cop to keep traffic moving.
• How a teacher in Chicago encourages students to create their own Class Contract.
• Use this one memorable word to banish whining, complaining and manipulating.
• Why does this teacher in Ohio imagine that his students are deaf?
• Why traditions are more powerful than rules.
Brain Booster # 2: Calm the quiet stalker that destroys focus: anxiety.
• Why anxiety causes more distractions and behavior issues than any other factor.
• 5 proven steps to identify, prevent and overcome anxiety.
• One question you can ask that will uncover a debilitating form of anxiety.
Brain Booster # 3: Be Sensory Smart to improve behavior. Nearly 60% of students experience sensory processing issues, another silent destroyer of focus.
• How a teacher in New York meets sensory needs by putting kids to work.
• The game hundreds of teachers play for 2 minutes to begin class that saves 15 minutes of redirection throughout class.
• What you can learn from watching your students during fire drills and recess.
Brain Booster # 4: Calm explosive students before they dominate your classroom.Ever notice how students who get angry have a difficult time finding the words to express their emotions? That's because the temporal lobe is responsible for temper control and language—talking to a child during this time can be disastrous.
• 3 common actions adults take that unwittingly make tense situations worse.
• One proven step that calms every upset child every time.
• Why one Principal in North Carolina sits outside in a rocking chair.
Brain Booster # 5: Create behavior plans that build a child’s confidence and reduce negative behavior. The basal ganglia—responsible for impulse control, judgment and motivation—responds best to a strengths-based approach.
• The fatal flaw all behavior plans suffer from and why they never work for long.
• Why increasing consequences never motivates the student and leads to frustration.
• How to redirect seamlessly without giving attention to the disruptive student.
• What you should be sending home instead of a daily behavioral chart.
• What happens when we show children what TO DO instead of what not to do.
Brain Booster # 6: Exercise and nutritious food are the high-octane fuels our students’ brains need.
• Specific ways that teachers in Boston, Tampa and Omaha incorporate exercise into lesson plans to reduce interruptions and improve productivity.
• One thing you must never, ever do.
• Ways to equip students to take ownership of their nutrition.
Brain Booster # 7: Improve concentration by giving students textured objects.
• We show how an amazing teacher in Seattle uses texture strips to improve focus.
• The center for language, reading and emotions in the brain also controls rhythm. Learn how these five teachers use music, swings and movement.
• What should you do when students refuse to give eye contact or stare out the window?
Brain Booster # 8: Use multi-sensory stimulation to improve attention and retention.Movement anchors new information and experiences into neural networks.
Application: 20 specific examples from real classrooms situations.
• How an innovative Atlanta teacher got his students practicing math during recess.
• A powerful intervention that increased test score by 38% in hundreds of schools.
• How a teacher in Charlotte uses puppets and cell phones to teach Spanish.
• Case study: How a teacher at one of the toughest schools in Chicago used crayons to improve behavior and test scores.
• Why a teacher in Austin, Texas turns energetic students into classroom leaders.
• The one question you can ask your students before an exam to improve test scores.
• Let’s rethink circle time!
Brain Booster # 9: Celebrate diversity of learning styles and gifts.
• Teach students to control their own actions, attitudes and emotions.
• How to get students using their respective strengths to mentor each other.
• Learn the key to prevent bullying.
Brain Booster # 10: Ignite a student’s internal motivation.
• Why most of our well-meaning efforts at motivating students cause more anxiety.
• How teachers from Long Island to St. Louis to Long Beach motivate students.
• Learn how a teacher in Phoenix turned over his classroom to his students.
Final Challenge:
There is a reason these students have crossed your path. Will we be just one more adult who chooses to pass this child off to someone else? Or will we seize the opportunity to be the very first adult who believes in this child. You’re going to think back with great satisfaction, knowing that your choices and your commitment had a lifelong impact on dozens of kids and their future families. That’s why you are a teacher, that’s why you work with children.