Category: Education
Education
Laurel Alper

Singapore Coding: Programming Should Be Taught More Like Singapore Maths

I was attending a parents’ information evening at my son’s school the other day and they were telling us about the Singapore Maths approach they have introduced recently. As a physicist I found these concepts most natural, indeed almost obvious (why did/does anyone teach Maths differently, I was wondering). Here is my executive summary: Focus

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Laurel Alper November 17, 2017 No Comments

How To Motivate Children Using NLP

How To Motivate Children Using NLP Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP) is well known for dealing with behaviour issues, but it also provides many techniques that are useful for generative changes such as Motivation. In fact, motivation and NLP have been closely linked since the early days of NLP “The term motivation refers to factors that

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Laurel Alper March 13, 2017 No Comments

It’s My Thing-What’s Yours?

IT’S MY THING – WHAT’S YOURS?   My Front Door – ACE Funded C&C Event September 2016   Happy 1st October!  In addition to the regular workshops I facilitate in Muswell Hill, N10, which form the foundation of Creative Writes and is where it all began – I also freelance for a range of organisations, delivering creative

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Laurel Alper October 2, 2016 No Comments

30 Ways The Olympics Can Inspire Your Children

30 Ways The Olympics Can Inspire Your Children The Olympics. I love it. I love the idea of all nations coming together in the spirit of healthy competition. I love the stories of athletes overcoming adversity to push themselves to succeed. So it’s here. And for the next 2 weeks it’ll be everywhere.. Take it as

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Laurel Alper August 11, 2016 No Comments

7+ 8+11+13+…help your child to pass exams

Like it or not, there is a continuous stream of children all over the UK heading towards life influencing exams. It is the system we currently have and no matter what we may think of it, until it changes or you decide to home educate, I believe we need to work to achieve the best

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Laurel Alper April 7, 2016 No Comments

Why your child runs into difficulty

Over the years, I have met many children who fail to concentrate in class and many who have poor writing skills. I have met children who don’t want to go school at all; some who ‘hate maths’ or reading; others who consistently under-perform, underachieve, daydream, or disrupt. Some parents – and teachers – think that

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Laurel Alper February 29, 2016 No Comments

Three Great Tools for Learning that won’t break the bank…

It probably won’t surprise you to know that if you Google ‘Educational Games’, you will get 127,000,000 results in 0.51 seconds. Many claim they can help with dyslexia or dyspraxia or are good for observation or hand/eye coordination or other aspects of development and they ‘make learning fun’. Wow. For a parent who may have

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Laurel Alper February 16, 2016 No Comments

Start Here

Start Here is one of the first core lessons from Lessons Alive. It so captivated the 9 year old boy whose lesson it was (and me), that I realised many other children could also benefit from it and wrote it into a short story called Start Here. At the end, I always ask the children

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Laurel Alper January 29, 2016 No Comments

Attitude

Attitude This might seem an odd thing to teach and to talk about because it is a very personal thing, but we all know that no matter how skilled or knowledgeable a person might be, their attitude may well be the deciding factor in their success, both personal and professional. For children, too, attitude can

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Laurel Alper January 6, 2016 4 Comments
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