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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome..........................................................................................5
Introduction ................................................................................8
CHAPTER 1: Todays Child ................................................11
CHAPTER 2: Neurobiology ................................................19
Concept #1: Start now............................................................19
Concept #2: Make connections............................................20
Concept #3: Quality stimuli ................................................ 22
Concept #4: Teach both brains............................................ 23
Left brain / right brain characteristics ............................24
Concept #5: Maximize the right brain window..............25
The right brain window......................................................26
The bridging effect.......................................................... 26
Concept #6: Be happy ............................................................28
Light ........................................................................................28
Sound ......................................................................................29
Thought ..................................................................................29
Brainwaves ..............................................................................30
Emotion ..................................................................................31
CHAPTER 3: Right Brain Education............................33
What are right brain abilities?............................................ 33
How can we access the right brain? .................................... 34
How the brain develops
in a left-brain society............................................................36
How the brain develops
in a whole-brain society ......................................................36
Our program ..............................................................................37
Wink and TweedleWink ..........................................................38
Right Brain Education program steps..................................39
Right Brain Education
is a rewarding experience ....................................................42
Quotes from classroom experiences......................................44
CHAPTER 4: The TweedleWink Program ................47
Our motto ..................................................................................47
The formula ................................................................................48
A wholesome curriculum........................................................48
What are the six senses? .......................................................... 49
What are the six stages? .......................................................... 50
Stage age ranges..........................................................................51
The twelve accelerated learning techniques........................52
Building the TweedleWink pyramid ....................................55
Right brain builders ..................................................................55
Corpus callosumbridge builders........................................55
Left brain builders ....................................................................56
The capstone Fly! ................................................................ 56
CHAPTER 5: Putting It All Together............................58
The learning triangle ................................................................58
Becoming an awesome
Right Brain Education teacher..........................................59
Creating your environment ....................................................60
Gathering effective materials ..................................................61
Your training experience ..........................................................63
Teacher
+
Environment
+
Materials
=
Success ..................63
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How to Bring Out Your Childs Genius in just Ten Minutes a Day
Welcome!
Dear Reader,
This program was designed by a collection of parents and
Montessori teachers looking for a joyful acceleration for children
who were hungry to learn from a very early age. It is called
Right Brain Education, but we lovingly, playfully like to call it
Wink (for older children) and TweedleWink (for children
ages zero to six). From very humble beginnings, our programs
have spread throughout the country and thanks to the onset
of the internet the world.
As weve grown, our customers and students have encouraged us
to continue and not to stop until this view of education has been
instituted in educational systems across the globe. Unless youve
experienced it for yourself, it will be difcult to describe how
rewarding Right Brain Education can be. The best feedback
we can give you is that our teenage and adult children are
now thanking us for giving them this loving head start in life.
It has made it possible for them to achieve their highest potential.
We are thrilled to be able to share this method with you.
Before you begin, it is important that you understand what
Right Brain Education is, and is not. It is a powerful tool to
strengthen your family relationships and give your children
the means to achieve what they desire in life. It is not a program
geared toward producing results like super children (although
the results are truly amazing). We want you to relax and have fun
with these methods and not be concerned about the results.
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In fact, the very environment of joy and limitless freedom is
vital for success.
Although our own understanding of the benets of Right Brain
Education keep growing, we have found two denitions which
remain constant:
RIGHT BRAIN EDUCATION IS AN ACCELERATION.
By planting the seeds of math, music, spoken and written
languages, science, art, cultures (and more!) early in life,
your childs mind will have rich subconscious library of
information. Your child will naturally crave to learn more
about the world around him, eagerly building his growing
mental library. And when high-quality input is combined
with joyful play, imaginative exploration and critical thinking
activities, both hemispheres of the brain are stimulated,
resulting in an incredible whole-brain acceleration.
RIGHT BRAIN EDUCATION IS AN AWAKENING.
This is because the right brain pathway opens with love.
A right brain classroom is full of hugs and praise, smiles
and cheer, giggles and deep sighs of relaxation. The more
parents and teachers experience Right Brain Education for
themselves through relaxation techniques and positive thinking,
the more transformed they become. They tell us that we
have changed their lives personally and professionally.
(What an honor that is for us.) Children raised in a heart-based
program become sensitive, wise, passionate, curious, loving
and kind human beings.
What more could we wish for?
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Mental Imaging
Observation Training
Memory Linking
Photographic Memory
Speed Reading
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Our goal is to provide as much early stimulation as possible
with loving thoughts and feelings so that when the child accesses
the memories stored, they are pleasant and nurturing inviting!
This way, later right brain memory retrieval is associated with
love.
Most learning curricula use left-brain practices and environments
to teach young children. This can slow, and even stop, right brain
development.
Right Brain Education is a rewarding experience
Sharing our philosophy and showing you how to implement
Right Brain Education in your classroom or home is important,
but it would be an incomplete picture without also sharing the
precious stories from our classrooms. Our classroom anecdotes
and those from students around the world will be sprinkled
throughout the book.
Some will amaze you. Some will delight you. And some
will humor you. Our hope is that all will inspire you
and to encourage you that you, too, can do this!
May Ng Wong, one of the earliest graduates of our Right Brain
Education Program began a right brain learning center in her
home in Singapore. Using Wink and TweedleWink, combining it
with a simple Montessori classroom, she has been able to inuence
the lives of children ages zero to six and now older children
and adults in her local community.
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In her words...
Some of my students can remember the Memory Cards
of 100 pictures within a short time, and the more adventurous
ones do it backwards.
They can actually tell you which card (color or picture)
is coming out next in our intuitive game. If you ask them
how do they know, their reply is usually I just know or
The answer is there (they will point at somewhere in space)
cant you see? And give you the Are you dim? type of look.
Not all children respond the same way. The results I get
depend greatly on their home environment as well.
That is so-o-o-o important.
I use ash cards (reading and general knowledge), dot cards
(for math), PhotoEyeplay