Stand up for yourself and your children – activities for putting your own learning resources into action
Have you noticed that children find it difficult to sit still? When sitting still for too long their concentration can wonder.
What learning resources do you have to help maintain their concentration?
What learning activities can you encourage your children to do to help them stay focused on their learning?
Put simply what do you do when you are at home and want to help your children with their learning and maintain their concentration, focus and energy?
The answer is simple and believe it or not, you do have the necessary learning resource at your fingertips to help your children maintain their concentration.
What is this resource?
When they are learning get your children to stand up and that way they will be more focused, full of energy and their concentration will be more likely to be maintained. Sounds too simple? Too good to be true?
Well, Dr Max Vercruyssen of the University of South Carolina doesn’t think so. He has found that the way a person positions their body has a marked affect on their ability to learn and retain focus. He therefore recommends that amongst the many learning resources available that standing is used to improve learning.
Two things help your children when standing. First the blood and oxygen flow to the brain increases significantly and secondly the psychological affect on the child is to make them much more alert with the brain then learning more.
What activities could your children undertake when standing so that their concentration is maintained and their learning improves?
As you may know The Learning Well recommends children and adults to produce Memory Maps to help with learning.
Memory Mapping uses a combination of location, words, images, and colour and a Map can be produced whilst standing and moving about, all learning activities and learning resources that massively help concentration are great fun, keep boredom away, and result in a great improvement in your children’s ability to learn. So memory mapping is one way of addressing this point.
You can learn about Memory Mapping and Memory Maps and how to use them for learning here at this Blog.
