Name: 【TEDx】TEDxManhattanBeach - Melanie West - Visual and Auditory Learning - How To Teach It
Uploaded: 2014-06-15T15:09:53.000Z
Duration: 8 min 21 s
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I remember my attempts  at studying chemistry,

mostly because they were  extremely painful.

I remember reading these words  over and over again,

but for some reason, when I was putting them together,

And as fate would have it, this triggered in me

something that happens  to a lot of my students.

I started to wonder, "What's wrong with me?"

My father can be described in a lot of ways.

He also can be described as an outside of the box thinker.

really important people coming to our home

to ask my father if their ideas would work.

So, one day when I was struggling along with chemistry,

"How do you know if something is going to work?

How do you know when you know something?"

And he said to me the most profound thing.

He said to me,  "I can picture it in my mind."

And it was as if something  cracked open inside of me.

These chemistry words  were not making pictures in my mind,

but I also understood  I've got to figure out

Now today, neuroscience  has a very good understanding

your brain fires off  a neurological pattern

that is very similar  to the same pattern you use

If you're very good  at thinking with words,

And for me, words  can actually block my comprehension.

memorize a long hairy definition  for that word,

are actually quite separate from learning.

Years later, I started my career by working in school districts,

testing and diagnosing children with learning disabilities.

And I started to see  a lot of common themes.

Now, Sarah can be described in a lot of ways.

and experiences school failure in many academic ways.

But the more I started to get to know my students,

the more I really started  to see my father.

is not being measured  by their ability to learn?

What if school performance is actually measuring

your child's inability  to think with words?"

And I ran across three powerful statistics.

50 to 60% of all students  will be perceived by school

as having average to bellow average learning potential.

will test as being very strong  at picture thinking,