Metanoia Educational Therapy

31/01/2025

31/01/2025

And we are here! Then end of the series on cognitive abilities.

Thank you for you patience.

Executive functions and mindset underpin it all. We have to be able to call skills online to use what we know effectively.

This is explored briefly in this post.

Enjoy!

27/12/2024

How to work on these skills? One at a time and deliberately is the best way.

27/12/2024

Thinking about your thinking and how to use these revelations to your advantage is a skill that develops slowly over time and really doesn't often become obvious before the teenage years begin.

Learning the art of reflecting and pivoting is much a cognitive skill as it is an executive function domain.

Let's explore it together!

15/11/2024

Some practical tips and hints for implementation 😉

15/11/2024

We are past the halfway point!

Logical Reasoning is one of the cognitive abilities that is hardest to pin point and can appear as lack of effort or cognitive deficit when indeed that it is not the case.

Students very often need to be explicitly taught how to think, how to view information and how to see the parts within the whole and how to manipulate those parts.

20/10/2024

Had a wonderful, adventure filled morning on Friday 5th October driving to and meeting the staff of Jubilee Presbyterian Primary School. I did a half day training session with the Principal Theresa Karen Motilal and entire staff on the effects of anxiety on learners and how to create a classroom and whole school setting to help support these learners. Missed my training buddy Laura Lalla but your energy was with us all the way.

30/09/2024

We're rounding out the final part Cognitive Ability - Language

Hope these tips help you to realise when you need to get others involved.

19/09/2024

We're at the midway point in our exploration of cognitive abilities and their impact on learning capacity!

Language skills and the associated difficulties are not to be ignored. Acquisition and usage of language in all its form i.e. reading, spoken, written and aural skills are key indicators of development.

Let's explore them further together.

22/07/2024

As with every cognitive ability, there are ways parents and teachers can support the learner. It is also key to remember some things are out of your scope of ability and that's okay as well.

Reach out for professional support when you are uncertain or you are certain it is required.

Giving each learner the best support possible will increase the likelihood of them having a lifelong positive relationship with learning in Formal and informal settings.

03/07/2024

Cognitive Ability #2 Perception

The massive, moderate or minute differences in how we experience the world will invariably affect how we respond to our experiences.

Perceptual capacity differences don't have to vast and obvious to all to have an impact on learning styles and capabilities...they just need to exist.