Some children try so hard- and still struggle.
What if their body has been telling us about how they learn, and what's causing challenges - and, we just don't know how to listen?
INTRODUCING:
"Reading the Body: A New Lens on Children's Learning"
- a practical, research-informed introduction to the neurodevelopmental foundations that shape every child's capacity to learn. An e-book written for the educators and parents who work and live with these children every day.
Yes, I want to understand my students better - $12 AUDYOU'RE PUZZLED
You can see they're capable.
So why is it so hard?
A child's learning challenge is your teaching challenge
If you've ever watched a student work twice as hard as everyone else and still fall behind - you know how frustrating and heartbreaking that can be. For them. For you.
The usual answers and supports don't always fit. It's not about effort. It's not always about ability. And, sometimes when you've needed to use behaviour management strategies to help them focus, those strategies don't seem to touch the issue and help the student with their learning.
What if the answer isn't in the classroom at all - not necessarily in how you teach, but rather, in the message the student's body is telling you about HOW they learn?
It's about knowing your students and HOW they learn.
How they use their body to learn.
How the body impacts their learning journey, helps develop their brain and creates learning foundations.
Yes, I want to know more about how my students use their body to learn
There's a layer of learning readiness that most teacher training never covers.
INTRODUCING
Reading the Body: A New Lens on Children's Learning
A readable first guide
Reading the Body: A new lens on children's learning introduces you to implementing a neurodevelopmental lens in education - a way of understanding children that begins not with the curriculum, but with the body's own learning foundations.
You'll discover how primitive reflexes, neuromotor development and sensory system maturity shape a child's ability to focus, regulate, and learn - and how to start recognising the signs that these foundations may need support.
This isn't a deep dive into clinical practice. It's an accessible, practical introduction for busy educators and parents - one that will change the questions you ask about the children in your care - and what may be underlying their learning challenges.
What's Inside...
A 28 page guide
Inside Reading the Body you'll be introduced to:
- What primitive reflexes are - and why their retention beyond infancy affects learning
- How the vestibular, proprioceptive, visual, tactile, and auditory systems support (or disrupt) learning
- The Brainbow® - a neurodevelopmental model of learning and framework - a way of visualising the developmental layers and sequence that underpin learning
- Hints in a student's posture, movement and behaviour that may signal an unmet neurodevelopmental need
- Why this lens changes everything - for how you see your students, learning challenges and how you respond.
This e-book is for you if you are...
- a classroom teacher with students whose learning and behaviour puzzles you - including children who seem capable but just can't seem to achieve their potential
- a school leader wanting to understand why some students don't respond to current support strategies
- an educator who senses there is more to the story - and wants a new framework for making sense of it
- a parent who knows something isn't quite right for your child - looking for a new way to understand and advocate for their learning.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I'm Christine Payard (PhD)
I've spent a good deal of my career at the intersection of research and practice — as a teacher, teacher educator, a senior research fellow, and someone who is endlessly fascinated by how learning happens.
My deepest passion is learning itself — how we learn and what gets in the way. What makes the difference for a student who flourishes and one who struggles. That curiosity underpinned my PhD research into teacher professional learning, and it shapes everything I love to do in my work.
A colleague calls me a "pracademic" — someone who moves between the research and the classroom, translating complex ideas into something teachers and educators can use on an everyday basis helping children to learn.
For the last 12 years, my curiosity about learning and how we learn has led me to dive deeply into neurodevelopment and learning connections — because again and again I've seen that when children struggle to learn and achieve, when nothing else seems to explain it or fix it, understanding their neurodevelopmental story and what's happening in the body is often what finally makes the difference — and opens the door to learning more easefully. The way learning is meant to feel.
That's why I wrote this book.
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Reading the Body: A New Lens on Children's Learning is $12 AUD - available immediately as a downloadable PDF
For educators and parents ready to see children differently.
