Movement Improves Attention And School Achievement For Struggling Students

July 6, 2008 - PRLog -- Hands On! How to Use Brain Gym in the Classroom will show you lively ways to integrate movement into reading, handwriting, spelling and math in a two-day workshop.

Workshop dates and times:  July 12 and 13, from 8:30 – 4:30.  

Workshop sponsor: Center for Empowered Learning.  

Two-Day Full Price Registration:  $365.  Discounts for two registering together.  

Parents and Educators:  learn how to be a more successful mentor to children with ADD, AD/HD or learning problems.  This phenomenal two-day workshop on improving students' attention and achievement will teach you practical, easy to do movements that will help students be more successful in school.  

Brain Gym is an educational, sensori-motor program developed by Dr. Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D., an expert in child motor development. Learn simple and effective movements that enhance attention, memory, organization, mental energy and academic skills.  “Exercise turns on the attention system, the so-called executive functions — sequencing, working memory, prioritizing, inhibiting, and sustaining attention,” according to John Ratey, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  Hands On! is a great workshop for parents, educators, educational therapists, psychologists, occupational therapists, and special education teachers.

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About The Center for Empowered Learning: The Center assists students in elementary, middle, high school and college achieve their dreams of academic success. The Center for Empowered Learning opens a student’s belief system to achievement and provides all the effective, research-validated educational programs and tools available to quickly propel a student to academic accomplishment. We specialize in helping students of all ages who are struggling with one or more school subjects, have “tried everything” and still aren’t progressing, or have lost faith in their capacity to succeed.