Creating Confident Learners: A Guide For Parents - by Tani Toprakci, M.Ed

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Creating Confident Learners: A Guide For Parents

With Tani Toprakci, M.Ed

This course uses a unique combination of simple breathwork and gratitude practices. It guides parents through child-friendly exercises to use before homework or school work (or really at any time!) to ease anxiety, create more mindfulness, as well as help create better focus and retention of academic material. In this course, you will learn specific tools to help guide your child from feeling overwhelmed to creating positive self-talk. These simple exercises, which take only 3-5 minutes, when done with consistency have a long and lasting positive effect in creating self-confidence. What's beautiful is when these practices are instilled in your child, they tend to ripple out to their classmates and peers in the most positive ways. This is part of the tools in The Toprakci Method helps students who struggle academically with everything from learning differences, dyslexia, anxiety, low self-confidence, and distraction in the classroom.

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Meet your Teacher

Tani Toprakci, M.Ed
Haiku-Pauwela, HI, USA

Tani Toprakci, M.Ed has been a private teacher successfully homeschooling and tutoring students all over the world with dramatic results for over two decades. She is an education consultant and founder of the learning program, THE TOPRAKCI METHOD. She has specialized in helping students who struggle academically and helping them achieve academic success. She is an educator in every sense of the word and believes the true idea of education is instilling the skills of life-long learners: confidence in one’s learning ability, passion for learning new material, and the ability to transfer knowledge and those skills to the world at large. She believes in teaching the whole child and knows that academics are just one part of the whole. She has worked with over five thousand students of all ages and types, ranging from the very young through university. She has successfully transitioned struggling students into university as well as back into traditional academic paths through individualized support. She is knowledgeable of the entire academic path and provides educational and academic consulting, teaching, and support to families.

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4 Days

96 students

4.0 stars

5 min / day

Grounded

English

Lesson 1

Three Grateful Things Exercise

Gratitude helps combat negative self-talk, increases self-esteem, rewires the brain for more positive thought processes, and changes mindset especially when things are feeling challenging. Gratitude is the quickest route to helping children take on challenges, including life and academic challenges, it helps them learn new information, rewrites the brain. This lesson goes through the simple exercise of pausing to reflect on 3 things you and your child are grateful for. Take a moment to look at the simple things around you that bring a smile to your heart and life. For any parent who has a child calling themselves "stupid," gratitude is the easiest way to rework this outlook in life and change their perception. Adding small academic successes also helps with increasing their self-esteem and creating a perception change to positivity so that they can trust in themselves and their own intelligence.

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Lesson 2

3-4-5 Breath

This simple technique uses a 3-4-5 breath count for one minute. 3-second slow inhale through the nose or mouth. 4 second hold. And a 5-second slow exhalation. This long exhale allows a child to ground more and ground the energy a little more to be more present. This breathwork can be done with the eyes opened or closed, kids can wiggle or lounge if they need to. We're using the 3-4-5 breath to create ease in the body while breathing. So remember when holding to keep a soft body, face, jaw, cheeks, shoulders etc. You can play with it and extend beyond one minute, but one simple minute is enough to create change!

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Lesson 3

Nose Breathing

This lesson walks you through the process of nose breathing, or traditional Nadi Shodana breathing, which can be adapted easily and simply to help kids process and learn better in academics. It helps the two brain hemispheres (the left and right) communicate better and helps build a stronger corpus callosum connecting the two better! I use this breathwork at the beginning of each tutoring session- it's great to do and helps kids ground right before starting homework or any other academic task. Through breathwork and neuroplasticity, we can help create a stronger processing system in children that helps with their academics, focus, and retention of material, as well as boosts self-confidence and the feeling of calm. When we help kids connect to their own bodies and breathe, it makes them more present, more mindful, and more confident learners.

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Lesson 4

Eyes-Closed Breathing

This lesson walks you through how to introduce to your child to simple eyes-closed breathing (aka stillness and meditation). Start with one minute and then go from there with the goal of working up to 5 minutes of eyes-closed breathing and stillness. Kids can lie down or sit, whatever is easiest for them. This helps with extending their attention and focus as well as learning to be still with themselves. If when you tried the first minute of eyes-closed breathing you found it hard, try the lesson again and see if it feels easier the second time. Also, try counting your inhales or exhales for the 60-second timeframe to see if that makes keeping your eyes closed and breathing with a balanced breath easier. Stay with 1 minute of eyes closed breathing until it feels easier and natural before moving on; then building to 2 minutes, then 3 minutes, up to 5 minutes. As a side note: Breathwork can be as simple as taking 3-5 mindful breaths before any big assignment before homework is started, or anything that gives them anxiety. It can be as simple as coming back to the body and breathing to help a child learn.

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Recent Reviews

Maaret

March 20, 2024

Excellent introductory on different ways to introduce children to breathwork and at the aame time improve their self esteem and confidence and make their learning easier

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