Learning requires a specific set of cognitive skills. To keep it simple, let's put these into five categories: Attention, Auditory, Visual, Understanding, and Memory Skills. A weakness in just one of these skills can result in a learning difficulty.
Each child has a preferred learning style or a way they learn best, but in a classroom setting it is impossible to cater to every learning style. Even in the best homeschool situation some children still struggle with learning.
Mind the Children is here to help parents target the specific areas of struggle in their child's learning skills. By capitalizing on a child's preferred learning style and interests and then strengthening the weaker cognitive skills there can be improvement. Mind the Children strives to focus on the latest brain research and the best resources available.
Teaching Experience
As a teenager back in the 1990's, Kerry started teaching children in church. As that passion grew she went to Bible college and got a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. During college Kerry continued to teach a children's Bible class. She wasn't given a curriculum so she mostly made up her own. Kerry's last semester of college she taught K4 using the A Beka program in a Christian school.
After college Kerry worked in a Child Development Center and also taught a children's Bible class of various ages. Kerry married Josh, the man of her dreams, in 2001. They spent five and half years as missionaries in Papua, Indonesia where she started Kids' Clubs and a Teen Club, similar to AWANA, designing the logo, pins, and games herself. Teaching in a foreign language was a great challenge that she thoroughly enjoyed.
Through the years Kerry has also helped homeschooling families with areas of struggle and tutored children in reading and math. Josh and Kerry became foster parents in February 2012. This was a very new experience for them and they learned a lot about parenting abused and neglected children. God hasn't blessed them with any children of their own, but Kerry continues her learning today as she takes online classes including Educational Psychology and others about learning disabilities.
Kerry does not claim to be an expert in any of these areas and does not intend to diagnose a learning disability. Mind the Children is simply intended to be a hub of resources to strengthen parents' knowledge in the area of learning.
Each child has a preferred learning style or a way they learn best, but in a classroom setting it is impossible to cater to every learning style. Even in the best homeschool situation some children still struggle with learning.
Mind the Children is here to help parents target the specific areas of struggle in their child's learning skills. By capitalizing on a child's preferred learning style and interests and then strengthening the weaker cognitive skills there can be improvement. Mind the Children strives to focus on the latest brain research and the best resources available.
Teaching Experience
As a teenager back in the 1990's, Kerry started teaching children in church. As that passion grew she went to Bible college and got a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. During college Kerry continued to teach a children's Bible class. She wasn't given a curriculum so she mostly made up her own. Kerry's last semester of college she taught K4 using the A Beka program in a Christian school.
After college Kerry worked in a Child Development Center and also taught a children's Bible class of various ages. Kerry married Josh, the man of her dreams, in 2001. They spent five and half years as missionaries in Papua, Indonesia where she started Kids' Clubs and a Teen Club, similar to AWANA, designing the logo, pins, and games herself. Teaching in a foreign language was a great challenge that she thoroughly enjoyed.
Through the years Kerry has also helped homeschooling families with areas of struggle and tutored children in reading and math. Josh and Kerry became foster parents in February 2012. This was a very new experience for them and they learned a lot about parenting abused and neglected children. God hasn't blessed them with any children of their own, but Kerry continues her learning today as she takes online classes including Educational Psychology and others about learning disabilities.
Kerry does not claim to be an expert in any of these areas and does not intend to diagnose a learning disability. Mind the Children is simply intended to be a hub of resources to strengthen parents' knowledge in the area of learning.
