Left And Right Brain Balancing Improve Child Intelligence...

Face it, the older the age when our memories tend to increasingly lose sharpness. We begin to forget things, like names of people, forget to put something or we have to do the job. But old does not mean your brain is also becoming increasingly blunt. For brain and memory can always be honed even stay sharp, here are some tips:

Step I: LEFT BRAIN TRAIN

Your left brain is working to regulate the ability in reasoning, language, writing, logic and arithmetic. Left-brain memory are short term (short term memory). If there is damage to the left brain, there will be disruption in terms of functions of speech, language and mathematics. To maintain the capacity of your left brain, try to learn a new language or do puzzles games.

Step 2: RIGHT BRAIN TRAIN

Right brain function is to handle the process of human creative thinking. Usual right brain identified about creativity, imagination, shape or space, emotion, music and color. Their memories are long right brain (long term memory). The way it works is not well structured and tend not to think about things that are too detailed. If there is damage to the right brain in diseases such as stroke or brain tumor, then the disturbed brain function is the ability of visual and emotional. To maintain the sharpness of your right brain practice playing a musical instrument, sing or make crafts.

Step 3: WHOLE BRAIN TRAIN

Learning meditation
By doing your meditation can reduce stress, overcome anxiety is excessive, and activate the control centers of the brain for happiness and satisfaction.

Train Memory capacity
You remember as a kid, a lot of things you should know by heart. The sharpness of your memory will increase if you always train memory skills.

Participate in social activities
Having a solid schedule of social activities which are believed to make the brain work more actively and to reduce deterioration of the brain.

In addition to genetic factors, ability and intelligence of a child can be trained and taught in a way to do the activation in the right brain. Generally, the participants who could be taught by several instructors aged between four to 12 years. Next try doing some activities with your eyes closed.

The kids and even then engaged in various activities ranging from reading and guess the number. There also are reading the holy verses of Al-Quran with eyes closed. Not only that, they ride bikes in a zigzag with eyes closed. All were obtained through focused training.

In addition to training the right brain to the brain's ability, motivation is beneficial for children to generate self-potential and positive character in the child. Currently, a number of activities are offered which aim to improve the ability of children with a variety of methods. In addition to that offered a variety of ways, most important, of course, attention and guidance of the parents of the children themselves.

Communities often assess IQ (intelligence quotient) is equated with intelligence or skill. In fact, IQ only measures a fraction of the skill.

"It was a bright child is a child who can react in a logical and useful to what is experienced in the neighborhood," said Eileen Rachman, a psychologist who is also Director of EXPERD, a human resources consultant at the seminar 10 Ways to Sharpen IQ and EQ (emotional quotient) Child , in Jakarta. At the same seminar also launched a book entitled Optimizing Intelligence Child.

Eileen explained that IQ is a number that is used to describe the thinking person's capacity as compared with the average of others. In general, the average IQ was 100.

"IQ is only used among others, imagined space, see the environment around coherently and find the relationship between one form and other forms. But IQ does not measure creativity, social skills, and wisdom, "he said.

Meanwhile, the intelligence of children seen from the understanding and awareness of what they experienced. Later on in his mind, the experience was transformed into words or numbers. Therefore, Eileen emphasizes the importance of understanding. "Because understanding is a combination of efforts to increase the input through the senses and the knowledge they have," explained Eileen.

How to optimize your child's intelligence? Eileen suggested that parents enhance learning, reading, and repeat. For example, to introduce how to read, the mother helps the child by making a line under words that are important, ask your child to read aloud and explain the meaning of reading.

In addition, parents are also introducing the strategy, making rational decisions, sparked the idea as smoothly as possible, midmapping, increase vocabulary, thinking as he imagined, humor, critical thinking, and play. The goal to balance the left and right brain work, because the structure of the left and right brain hemispheres have different tasks.

Why need to balance the left and right brain work? Eileen said that the child can read fluently with full comprehension, creative writing, spelling, remembering, listening, thinking while at the same or become the champion in a particular sport. All it takes left and right brain coordination with both well trained.

But to balance the left and right brain work can also be through customs. Eileen explained, for example by enjoying the music and the arts, enjoying color, space and shape, value creativity and appreciate the sentiment.

Meanwhile, Dr. Andre Meaza said that during early childhood is the golden period to perform an active process through the process of sensory stimulation for the purpose of forming wiring system. "Stages of early life stages of the child are important because children are able to receive skills and teaching as a basis of knowledge and thought processes."

Andrew also explained, half the child's intellectual development took place prior to entering the age of 4 years. Precisely 17 years of age cognitive development is a cumulative development of the child is born.

According to Andre, 0-4 year olds have the cognitive development of 50%, 30% 4-8 years and 9-17 years at 20%. "It's brain development before age 1 year early, but the maturation of the brain take place after the child is born," he said.

He warned that the influence of early environment on brain development will impact long. Therefore, children who have good environmental stimulation, brain function will develop better.

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how to improve your writing skills

f all the classes I took in college and graduate school, the two that have helped me most in my career have been English Composition and Business English. In these classes I learned effective writing skills, which I have used in every job I have ever had. No other job but my work on this site included writing as part of my job description. In spite of this, I was required to write in every job, and it was taken for granted that I would be able to do this. This is the case with most jobs -- whether you must write internal memos, correspond with clients, or help design sales materials. Writing beautiful prose and poetry is a talent. Writing effectively, however, is a skill that can be learned.
Organize Your Writing

Whether you are writing a memo to your co-worker or a report for your boss, you should decide what information you want to convey. Here is how to do this:
List each item you need to discuss in your memo or report.
Put them in order — from most to least important
Write a brief summary of your entire memo — this will be your first paragraph.
Expand on each item listed in step 1.
If any action needs to be taken by the recipient, state that in your closing paragraph.
Some Tips

Avoid wordiness. Say out loud what you are trying to write. Listen to how the words sound. For example, the sentence, "I found out that I should take a look at our past sales figures in order to come up with a plan to help us re-evaluate our sales technique" could be more simply stated as "I must take a look at our past sales figures to re-evaluate our sales technique."
Write for your audience. Use simple language. You don't want the reader to need a dictionary to decipher what you are trying to say. You should not try to impress your reader with your huge vocabulary. Chances are you will frustrate your reader instead. Most people are juggling several tasks at the same time, and are interested in receiving only necessary information. You are responsible for making this happen. Instead of saying, "His gregarious nature credentials him as a superlative candidate for the job," say "His friendliness makes him a top candidate for the job."

Stay away from jargon your reader may not understand. If your work is very technical, but the person you are writing to is not well versed in that field, stick to words that person will understand. For example, if you are a Web site designer, this sentence in a memo to your client, a psychologist, will make no sense: "What would you like me to use as the BGCOLOR for your site: #ADD8E6 or #FFFFFF?" Anyone proficient in Web page design knows that this question can be translated to "What would you like the background color of your site to be: Light Blue or White?" However, don't expect your client to be more familiar with this technical jargon than you would be with her discussion of a psychological term such as trichotillomania.

A cliche a day keeps the reader away — or at least it does not make him or her remember what you are saying. You want your writing to be memorable. Because we hear cliches often, we become desensitized to them. The words, then, are not uniquely associated with your writing. Rather than saying "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today" in a memo to a subordinate you are trying to motivate. Simply say, "Stop procrastinating. Get the job done now."

When possible, use the active voice. The active voice makes your sentence stronger and usually shorter. Let's try these examples. Passive voice: "Sales increased due to the networking I did." Active voice: "My networking increased sales."

Don't be redundant. It is not necessary to say "2 p.m. in the afternoon" or "the expectant pregnant woman." Saying "2 p.m." or "2 in the afternoon" or "the expectant woman" or "the pregnant woman" all convey what you want to say and are less wordy.

Of course pay attention to grammar. Use Strunk and White's Elements of Style, available on the Web. A good dictionary should be nearby, along with a thesaurus. A thesaurus will allow you to keep your writing fresh by helping you find a variety of words to use. Many of these resources are available online.

Proofreading is one of the most important things you can do. Since you probably do most of your writing on a computer, you have access to automated spelling and grammar checkers. Beware though — some words, used in the wrong context may be missed by computerized spell checkers. For example the sentence "To employees attended too meetings two learn about the gnu software," would pass through the spell check without any misspellings being detected. Have someone else proofread your document, if possible. If time allows, put your composition away, and proofread it later, or even better, the next day.

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Belajar Bahasa Inggris Melalui Koran Masuk Sekolah

Sebanyak 100 sekolah dari sembilan provinsi di Indonesia terpilih untuk mengikuti program Koran Masuk Sekolah. Kesembilan propinsi tersebut antara lain, Riau, Jawa Barat, Kalimantan Timur, jawa Tengah, Yogyakarta, Jawa Timur, Bali, Sumatera Utara dan DKI Jakarta.

Dirjen Pendidikan Menengah Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Kemdikbud) Hamid Muhammad mengatakan, program Koran Masuk Sekolah dapat menjadi stimulus pemberdayaan bahasa Inggris bagi para peserta didik. “Pembelajaran bahasa Inggris akan lebih berkembang dengan adanya interaksi peserta didik, guru, dan media,” ungkap Hamid di Gedung Kemdikbud, Jakarta, Senin (19/12).

Hamid mengatakan, program ini sebenarnya sudah dimulai sejak 2007. Hanya saja, program itu tidak terlalu efektif.

Karenanya, mulai tahun 2012 mendatang akan dikembangkan ke 100 sekolah menengah atas dan sekolah menengah kejuruan di sembilan provinsi. Setiap sekolah akan mendapatkan tiga eksemplar koran harian berbahasa Inggris selama setahun untuk dijadikan pembelajaran di sekolah.

Hamid menyampaikan, dengan penerapan kurikulum berbasis kompetensi yang dimulai sejak 2004 maka pengajaran bahasa Inggris telah menggunakan pendekatan berbasis komunikasi. Menurutnya, sudah banyak sekolah yang mengubah metode pembelajaran dari berbasis grammar dan struktur menjadi berbasis keterampilan komunikasi.

Dengan adanya koran masuk sekolah akan menjadi sumber daya yang penting di dalam program pembelajaran bahasa Inggris.

Program Koran Masuk Sekolah itu pun disambut positif siswa. Rafif Muhammad Rizqullah, siswa SMAN 1 Bekasi, mengaku senang dengan adanya program ini. Menurutnya, sebagai pelajar dia dapat menggunakan koran untuk mencari informasi sekaligus sarana untuk belajar bahasa Inggris.

kemampuan bahasa Inggris merupakan keharusan di bidang turisme. Koran, kata dia, dapat dijadikan sebagai sumber informasi dan sarana belajar membaca. Koran adalah media yang murah dan efektif untuk pembelajaran.

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