Shifting Gears with Peers

Enhancing the Mind/Body Connection

Linda Moniot, Presenter

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Today's children are movement deprived. This lack of movement can lead to decreased motor skills, poor learning efficiency and ineffective sensory processing.

Shifting Gears with Peers helps therapists and educators to promote active, movement based learning strategies across a variety of settings. When bodies are engaged so are minds!

 

 

 

Shifting Gears with Peers implements therapeutic movement strategies to support all aspects of learning through the brain/body connection. This promotes learning, improves motor skills and enhances sensory development through movement.

 

Proven benefits include increased skills in sensory processing, postural responses, perceptual development, motor coordination and social interaction. Ultimately students gain improved learning, motivation and self esteem!

Course Content

Who Should Attend

What is Learned
  • Learning Defined
  • Implicit verses explicit learning
  • Building blocks of a responsive and integrated learning system
Left/Right Brain Learning and Integration:
  • Left/Right brain characteristics
  • Right brain learners in a left brain world
  • Integrating left and right brains
Movement as the Doorway to Learning
  • Experimental learning of a variety of effective programs and movement techniques (Brain Gym, Shifting Gears with Peers, Yoga, HANDEL, etc.
  • Moving, trying and doing
  • Integrating reflexes through movement
Movement Based Learning
  • Applying movement based activities into the classroom
  • Using Shifting Gears with Peers as an integrated approach
  • Moving movement from the therapy room to the classroom
  • Addressing the struggling learner through movement

The Educational Connection:

  • Shifting Gears with Peers as a Tier One Response to Intervention
  • Sensory movement experiences connecting with perceptual motor learning
  • Tying 2-D learning (paper/pencil) to 3-D learning movement
  • Use Shifting Gears to support NCLB and IDEA guidelines

 

 THERAPISTS:
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Physical Therapist
  • Physical Therapy Assistants
  • Speech Therapist
TEACHERS:
  • Elementary school teachers
  • Special Education teachers
  • Private school teachers
ADMINISTRATORS:
  • Elementary
  • Special Education
  • Private School administrators