Welcome to Choices for Learning!

My goal is to help you discover the many choices you (or your child) have for learning, as well as assist you in finding information and resources for learning the way you need or choose. I believe each person can benefit from an individualized approach to their learning and encourage you to explore this site in order to find a variety of resources and differentiated materials.  Content about learning is useful for any learner anywhere, while some resources are especially for the Monterey Bay Region, Greater San Francisco Bay Area, California, and the United States.

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      Choices for Atypical Learners

      Here are some of my favorite resources to differentiate learning or offer choices for your visual-spatial child or atypical learner! Find a list of Educational Options Scenarios here and think flexibly about possible places to learn for your V-S child or other learner.  OR go to the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) website to find out about all kinds of alternative schools and learning environments/philosophies that fit your child’s kind of mind, listed under: Democratic, Homeschooling, Montessori, Waldorf, Public Alternative, and more.  And anytime you can provide choices and accommodations, you give a student the chance to learn their best way.  Check out this 504 Accommodation List or browse other lists here: Also check out my own long list of Ways to Demonstrate What you have Learned” and use them at home or ask your child’s teacher to allow these alternate ways for your child to do homework.  For differentiated learning with low and high-tech methods, find ideas and products to help with reading, writing and math here.  Some favorites are the “Smart Pen” – write just a few notes or make images with this pen and it records the lecture at the same time as you write; later tap the pen to your notes and it plays back the part of the lecture that went with your doodle! And for math facts learning, try Right Brain Math, which teaches visual-spatial learners through easy patterns and movement with grids and circles.  (Purchase book online) but watch the videos here for free!  And for a great selection of interactive math activities to help kids visualize concepts and learn procedures for operations, fractions, algebra, geometry, and probability; go to National Library of Virtual Manipulatives and let your child teach themselves by using the online manipulatives.  For the child who really can’t sit in a classroom, check out Vi Hart’s Website for fun math doodles, balloon platonic solids, fruit math (and more) – all for people who love to learn but need to move and do!