Mindful Teaching

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My Mind Mentor provides mindful mentoring, tutoring, and consulting services for students of all ages in the course of their academic career. Taking into consideration the various types of intelligence, learning styles, and student’s academic & behavioral needs, tailored programs are created for an individualized conscious educational experience.Students do not need more of the same instruction in class but a different type of instruction. They need to learn basic language sounds and the letters that make them, starting from the very beginning and moving forward in a gradual step by step process. For all of this to “stick” they need to do this by using their eyes, ears, voices, and hands. Therefore, they are becoming aware of their learning process as they are engaging in multisensory learning.


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Mindful Teaching

Mindful teaching involves active awareness & observation of the individual student’s needs, behavior and personality, in order to constantly adjust teaching methods to engage student at her/his full potential. When a student is actively involved and consciously aware of her/his learning process, mindful learning takes place. This state of consciousness is the necessary platform for mental clarity, focus, creative and critical thinking.We provide highly individualized, one-on-one instruction in the comfort and security of the clients’ own home, free from outside distractions. Sessions can also be scheduled online, at schools, after school facilities, or libraries.

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About

My Mind Mentor was founded in 2008 by Denise Maratos. Denise is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of California. She has taught all grade levels, including college, over the past 15 years. She has created her own courses in student development and cross cultural studies, helped develop department curricula, and trained teachers. Her research has focused in the fields of psycholinguistics, languages and cultures.Her goal is to engage students in mindful learning while making them consciously aware of the ways in which knowledge helps them create the world they want, while also being positioned to make it a beautiful place.

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Mission

It is our dream to kindle understanding, to untangle knots, to inspire spirits, and to excite minds so they are inspired to seek, question and create.It is also our dream to produce successful, engaged learners who are responsible for their own learning.; students become mindful and able to define their own learning goals and evaluate their own achievement. They become energized by their learning and their joy of learning leads to a lifelong passion for solving problems, understanding, and taking the next step in their thinking. They become conscious mindful learners who are strategic in that they know how to learn and are able to transfer knowledge to solve problems creatively.

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Multi-Sensory Learning

Some children struggle with auditory and/or visual processing. They have trouble recalling words and how they are pronounced. This means that they do not comprehend the roles that sounds play in words. These children have difficulties rhyming words as well as blending sounds together to form words. Some children do not understand or acquire the alphabetic code or system expected of them in the primary grades. If a child is given a task that uses just hearing and vision, without drawing upon other senses, the student will be at a disadvantage. When taught with a multi-sensory approach, children will learn alphabetic patterns and words by utilizing all pathways – hearing (auditory), seeing (visual), touching (tactile) and moving (kinesthetic).

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Services

Mentoring – With high respect to the unique worth and potential of each individual, we help in a non-judgemental way to guide students with emotional, intellectual, and academic matters throughout their years in school, until they graduate from high school and/or college. Mentoring, otherwise known as ‘coaching’, services are specialized for each individual and cover a wide range of services, including counseling, academic consulting, and tutoring when needed. These services are the signature services of MyMindMentor and are highly regarded by student throughout the world.

Tutoring – Specialized academic tutoring in one or more subject area for advancing performance and outcome in a specific subject or for a specific test.

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Consulting

Discovering the future path of an individual can be frightening without guidance. Academic consulting helps students pre-select a career path in a field or fields that they have true talents in so that they are ready to excel in their future.Through guided testing and one-on-one consulting, we plan a career path and make goals towards achieving those goals, from getting into a specific university or school, learning a foreign language, becoming an astronaut, going to a technical school to learn a trade, or graduating from high school. Academic consulting helps students make the decisions they will not regret later in life.

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Multi-Sensory in Depth

The most effective teaching method for children with learning differences is a multi-sensory approach. Multi-sensory teaching utilizes all the senses to relay information to the students. The teacher accesses the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic pathways in order to enhance memory and learning. For example, when learning the vowel combination “oa” the student might first look at it and then have to trace the letters in the air while speaking out loud. This combination of listening, looking, and moving around creates a lasting impression for the student as things will connect to each other and become memorable.Multi-sensory learning started back in the 1920s by Dr. Samuel Orton at the Mobile Mental Health Clinic in Iowa. Dr. Samuel Orton, suggested that teaching the “fundamentals of phonic association with letter forms, both visually and kinesthetically presented and reproduced in writing until the correct associations were built up,” would be the best learning approach for students of all ages. Dr. Orton had his patients trace, copy, and write letters while saying their corresponding sounds and associations. Today this method is known as multisensory learning.

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