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Right Brain
Education Manual
What Parents need to know!
How to Expand Your Child's Learning Abilities by
The 1st & World's Largest Right Brain Education Library
1ST & WORLD LARGEST RIGHT BRAIN EDUCATION LIBRARY
Introduction
This e-book is intended to give you an understanding of what is right brain education, why is right brain training is important, what flashcards and materials used and how you can teach your child at home.
This is a compilation of notes that comes from our 16 years of cumulative experience we have in right brain education method for kids aged 4 months old to 7 years old.
You will get information on what you need to know and how you as a parent can teach your child.
Teaching your baby or toddler is very simple! Right brain education is a method of teaching with the right early learning materials.
All the practical information you need is here.
So with that said, I hope this e-book will enlighten you and answers most of the questions you are looking for.
Yours truly,
Right Brain Education Library Team
What Is Right Brain Education?
Right brain education is a method of teaching. It is more than teaching your child math, reading and developing encyclopedic knowledge.
It is about developing the right brain abilities (long-term memory, speed reading, photographic memory, rapid math calculation ability and creativity).
When a baby is from 0 to 3 years old, they are right-brain dominant.
From the age of 3+ years old onwards, their left brain functions begin to develop.
The earlier you start your child's right brain education the easier it is to teach them.
According to Professor Shichida (founder of the "Shichida Method"), every child between the ages of zero to three years old is believed to be a genius. This is because the child is able to absorb or accept information at an amazing rate.
When you want to raise your children effectively, you must understand how the infant's brain works between ages zero to three years old.
The right brain and left brain function in different ways.
The right brain functions at a high speed, whereas the left brain function at a low speed. Both sides of the brain function very differently. So when you input a lot of information at a very fast speed that is when you activate the right brain.
In Right Brain Education, flash cards are not only used as tools. There are other activities such as ESP games, image eye play, eye exercises, mandala, peg memory, picture flash cards, singing and dancing, story books, playing cards, and others are used.
Right Brain Schools
There are many “right brain education” schools opening up everywhere. The three pioneer and most established right brain schools are Glenn Doman, Shichida Method, and Heguru.
Glenn Doman is not officially a right brain education school, but they were one of the first to recognized that showing flashcard fast is an effective method to teach babies and toddlers. He is the founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential and began pioneering the field of child brain development in 1940.
He and the institute are known for their pioneering work with brain-injured children and their early development for well children.
Glenn has authored a lot of books and materials that show parents how to tutor their babies at home.
Shichida Method is founded by Makoto Shichida. His schools were founded in Oct 1978 in Japan and are also in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Australia, United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. Classes that are conducted by them are for the age of four months to six years.
Heguru schools or HEGL Inc. was founded in July 1989 in Japan. They are at the moment in Japan, Singapore, Thailand, China, Kuwait, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Dubai, and Myanmar.
In July 1997, Heguru founded the “Undulate Speed Reading” or “Wave Speed Reading” - Hado Reading. You can send your child to this school from the age of four months to twelve years.
Right Brain VS Left Brain Functions
Left Brain
Conscious AwarenessLogical ThoughtShort-term MemorySlow InputDetail AnalysisRelies on Physical SensesLikes repetitive inputsUses Words List Process data one piece at a timePractical, works well undress stressRight Brain
Subconscious AwarenessAbstract ThoughtLong-term MemoryFast InputGestalt (whole picture)Relies on IntuitionSoaks up information like spongeUses Picture, Numbers and Shapes ImagesProcess data all at onceEmotional, work well when relaxed
The Science Behind Right Brain Education
"What is the science behind the right brain education method?"
One of the pioneers and that develops this method is the Shichida Method from Japan.
Most of the education curriculum in Japan is "left brain" method, which utilises a more left-brain, and linear approach to learning.
The traditional method does not train the right brain.
Dr Makoto Shichida believes that both the right and left side of the brain needs to work together, which he calls hemispheric synchronisation.
Which means "the right and left side of the brain connected and working together".
Dr Makoto Shichida's method is also known as "right brain education". He uses this term to differentiate his approach from the rest of the traditional method.
At the age of 0 to 3 years old the child's right brain (the image brain) is the most dominant. This is when you start the right brain training.
From 4 years old, the left brain (the logic brain) begins to develop. At the age of 4 years old the right and left brain training are done.
How Right Brain Education Works?
Parental bonding is most important in this method. The love between the parent and child must be present
before any whole-brain training can be effective. The right brain functions are activated through the love of the parent and child.
The traditional education approach is more concerned with academic scores.
Shichida's method promotes a parenting style that understands the child's mind; It is a parenting style that can develop the capabilities of the right brain.
Right brain education works through "Love, Mind, and Brain".
Love = encouragement, affirmation, providing a sense of assurance, and praise.
Through love, the child's mind will be more open or motivated to learn.
With an open and positive mind, the "brain" will work positively.
This means, your child will learn effectively.
This is done by,
1. Developing the right brain (right brain education) and
2. Connecting the right brain with the left brain.
This allows the right and left brain to work together in balance. This is called "Whole Brain Learning".
Here are 4 ways to develop the right brain.
We input a large number of facts - This can be done via flashcards (math, language, picture, and others).
The left brain and right brain learn and operate differently.
The left brain operates at the Beta wave frequency (14-30 hertz/second) and
the right brain at the Alpha wave frequency (8-13 hertz/second). Alpha state is associated with a relaxed state of mind.
In Right Brain Education Method, we believe that relaxation and deep breathing
are needed for the Right Brain to operate.
Every right brain lesson, whether in class or at home,
breathing exercises are done before lessons begin.
Traditional Method Vs Right Brain Education Method
Dr Makoto Shichida believes that when every child is born, their right-brain abilities are present and active.
Based on his observation, during the age of 0 to 3 years old, every child has the natural ability to learn. This is a period in which the child maximises the use of the right brain.
It is the period where exposing as much knowledge at high speed is essential, especially when the right brain is dominant.
This is the period where their natural instinct to survive is present and where knowledge is absorbed like a sponge during this tender age. This is the easiest and best time to teach your child.
From 4 to 6 years old, the right brain begins to shift from right-brain to left-brain dominance naturally.
At this age, parents' personal dedication and involvement are needed to show better learning results.
By understanding the development and function of your child's brain, you will know how to teach your child and why it is done that way.
The first 6 to 7 years of your child's development are the most important. These are his foundation years. With a strong foundation, his learning years will be easier.
The flashcards and the right brain materials in the RightBrainEducationLibrary.Com collection are designed to train and develop the right brain and also to connect the left brain.
The Shichida Method recommends flashcards to be flashed at less than 1 second to 0.5-seconds per card.
How To Teach Your Child?
Right brain education placed importance on
flashcards right brain education activities (memory training, puzzles and Speed reading) parentingBefore you start teaching your child, the most important thing in right brain education is the relationship between you and your child.
So, it is important how you view your child.
The child will grow according to they are being viewed or the image portrayed by their parent or teacher.
For example, when a child makes a mistake, the parent should never think or say words like “You are stupid” or “When this child grows up he/she will not be successful” etc. The child will be what you think and say of him/her.
5 Points On How To View Your Child
Look at the strong points and potentialNow let's take a look at what is being taught in right brain schools and how you too can teach your child right brain education at home.
Self Paced vs Scheduled Program
Before you start teaching your child, the most important thing in right brain education is the relationship between you and your child.
"Self Paced Program" is active learning. It is about FUN, being creative, learning at a personal pace, exploring and discovering. There is no pressure, no levels and learning become a joy.
Learning is not based on an age-appropriate syllabus. It is based on the level of competency. Learning has no limits and no boundaries.
"Scheduled Program" teaches the student to comply and consume rather than having the initiative to learn. A set of rules, a daily schedule to follow and learning materials are provided. The students are to strictly follow the program.
Right Brain Education is "Self Paced Learning". Right Brain Education Training cannot be a "Scheduled Program" because it limits and confines the child's learning capabilities.
Especially kids at a very young age, we want them to love learning, have fun learning, have initiative, learn to make their own decisions, and explore and discover new knowledge.
Right brain education is about "what does my child like to learn?" or "What is his interest?" or "How to make his learning fun?".
Right brain training works only when your child is relaxed and is enjoying his lessons.
When you teach your baby or toddler, make sure you have the volume and variety of flashcards and right brain activities at home to make the lessons engaging and fun.
On the other pages, you can look at the types of right brain learning materials you can teach your child.
Alpha Music
The purpose of Alpha Music is to get your child into a state of relaxation mode. The right brain functions best at the alpha wave, semiconscious, in a deep relaxed state.
There are a few ways you can get do that,
Alpha music is played as instrumental background music for relaxation and it's ideal to be played before or when your child is learning.
Energy Ball Exercise
I would also highly recommend that you do Shichida Method's “Make Energy Ball” exercise to incorporate with music.
The “Energy Ball” exercise is to mentally prepare your child before you teach your child.
The purpose of an energy ball is to get your child to focus their mental energy.
There are 2 videos you should take a look at.
Watch Shichida Energy Ball Exercise on YouTube
The video shows how the “Power of Intention” can do. Which is the same as what the “Energy Ball” exercise can do.
Watch Spoon Bending "Power of Intention" on YouTube
It may not seem to have any logic doing this exercise, but bear in mind this exercise is specially developed by Shichida.
It is compulsory that this exercise is done in Shichida classes.
Eye Training Exercise
It’s an exercise to train the eye muscles to scan up and down, left and right, and in all sorts of directions.
This is to prepare your child for photographic memory exercises and speed reading.
For example, in (figure 1), you can use your finger to point or hold a little toy and move according to the lines given and get your child to use his/her eyes to follow your finger or toy.
Imaginary Play
The word “imaginary” means visualization or mental picture. The training is meant to teach your child (at any age) to learn how to be imaginative or to create images. This training is the foundation of all the other image exercises.
"Imaginary Play" are specially created stories where your child will close their eyes, imagine and visualize the story when the story is being told. Your child will train his right side of the brain by learning to mentally visualize the story.
"Imaginary Play" teaches your child to
1. Be creative.
2. Focus.
3. Learn to use their visual senses.
There are many other creative ways you can do these exercises, like getting your child to visualize stories from storybooks as you read to them.
Right brain education teaches your child to see words, pictures, and numbers as images.
Flashcards
In "Shichida Method" and "Heguru", they believe flashing cards to children is not only to give knowledge to them but there are other purposes -
To activate the right brain
Cards need to be flashed at high speed. It is important because it gives your child instant memory. Normally every child will learn with his left brain, but when information is given at high speed, the right brain's memory is activated and it will grow.
The right brain and left brain will be connected
When flashing cards, you will show the pictures and at the same time say the words on the cards. The images or pictures will be processed by the right brain. The words or language are processed by the left brain. As a result, the child will learn new words through the activation of the left brain.
After knowing the purpose, you also must know how to flash the cards. When you flash to your child, try to flash less than one second per card or as fast as you can.
Here is how fast flash cards are recommended to be shown:
Shichida Method: 1 to 0.5 seconds/cardMake sure you have as much variety as possible. Do not repeat the same set of cards in one sitting.
Just in case your child cannot sit through the session, you can take a short break and then continue flashing.
Types of Flashcards
There are many types, you can consider using, from science, phonics, vocabulary, cultural, arts, countries, shapes and objects, dots, numerals, addition, multiplication, speed reading, and many others.
Equation Flashcards
* Pictures are taken from RightBrainEducationLibrary.Com
Multilingual Flashcards
Time Flashcards
Science Flashcards
Random Dots Flashcards
Encyclopedia Flashcards
Tachistoscope Principle - Photographic Memory
using Flash Card
Speed Reading and Photographic Memory training flash cards go back as far as the late 1930s. This is possible with the invention of the tachistoscope.
You will notice the similarity of this right brain training method and theory with the right brain education/training for babies and toddlers.
What is a tachistoscope?
It came from "Tachistos", which means very rapid, and "skopein" means a visual instrument/screen that flashes images.
This device flashes a series of images on to a screen at a rapid speed to test visual perception, memory, and learning. It uses a slide projector equipped with a mechanical shutter system like a camera.
It is capable of projecting "flashcard" images as fast as 2 seconds to 0.01 seconds per image.
It can be used to increase recognition speed, to show something too fast to be consciously recognized, or to test which elements of an image are memorable.
Tachistoscope Principle - Photographic Memory
using Flash Card
How was this device used?
Tachistoscopic training was done during the World War 2 era. Samuel Renshaw (1892 - 1981) who was an Amerian psychologist, whose work became famous when he taught sailors and the Arm Forces to identify enemy aircraft in a split second.
The technique involves showing flashcard images of planes (a few hundredths of a second per image) they have to recognize on to a screen.
The training was known as the "Renshaw Training System for Aircraft and Ship Recognition".
How was this device used?
Tachistoscopic training was done during the World War 2 era. Samuel Renshaw
Upon completion of the program, officers could identify more types of planes and ships with greater accuracy and with faster recognition time. He continued further to train people to speed read using his method.
The first tachistoscope was originally described by German physiologist Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann in 1859 although he had already been using the device for some years. He specialized in the nervous and optic system.
Tachistoscopic training is also known as FRT (Flash Recognition Training). Today FRT program is being used in the training of military and law enforcement professionals.
Based on the Tachistoscope Principle training method, where accurate visual and rapid speed is presented, the brain is able to recognize the image and is embedded in the subconscious mind of the child. The child is then able to recall the information from his subconscious mind and learning will be easy for the child.
Tachistoscopes were used during the late 1960s in public schools as an aid to increased reading comprehension for speed reading.
There were two types: the student would look through a lens similar to an aircraft bombsight viewfinder and read letters, words, and phrases using manually advanced slide film. The second type of projected words and phrases on a screen in sequence. Both types were followed up with comprehension and vocabulary testing.
When you teach your child using flash cards in right brain education, accuracy and speed are vital.
Tachistoscope Principle - Photographic Memory
using Flash Card
Mandala Memory Program
This is a photographic memory exercise. The “Mandala” is translated as a “circle” in the classical Indian language of Sanskrit.
It's not just a circle or a basic shape, but it means completeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational design of life--a universal chart that reminds us of our connection to the infinite which spread out both beyond and within our bodies and minds.
Mandala Memory Program is used as part of right brain education exercises by Shichida Method, Heguru, and other right brain education schools.
These exercises are used as part of “Photographic Memory” exercises.
It is to help your child to remember the colors on the Mandala pictures when the pictures are flashed within 5 seconds.
How to use the Mandala Memory Program?
First, what you need is two identical pictures of “Mandala”.
One is coloured and the other is outlined.
First, get your child to relax by taking a few deep breaths.
It is important to PRACTICE many times in order to succeed.
You must flash fast because the right brain takes in the entire image at a glance and forms an 'after image' that the child sees when he closes his eyes.
This capability to see and retain the 'after image' will improve when practiced over time.
In the beginning, your child may say "Mommy, I can't see anything!"
Be patient. According to Prof Shichida, the 'after image' will retain for 5 seconds or less initially and gradually build up to 10 seconds or more.
When the 'after image' is retained in a child's mind for more than a minute, even after seeing an object for only a second, he is said to have developed “Photographic Memory”.
Tangram Memory Puzzles
Develop Photographic Memory Through Shapes and Colours.
This puzzle works on your child's photographic memory skills, fine motor skills, and critical thinking. You are required to print the tangram and play this memory game with your toddler.
Playing with tangrams help your child understand shapes, develop positive feelings about geometry, improve visual senses and photographic memory. It also helps to develop an understanding of how geometric shapes can be decomposed, hones spatial rotation skills, and acquire a precise vocabulary for manipulating shapes (e.g., "flip," "rotate").
Linking Story
The purpose is to train the child to memorize a group of pictures in sequence.
For example, when your child looks at a chart full of pictures, in order to memorize, he or she will take the first image and link it to the other images with a story.
In this exercise, the story used to link the images does not make sense and has no logic.
Since “the story” has no logic, the left side brain closes. This is because the left side brain functions based on logic.
For example, if the first picture is a “cow” and the second is a “car”. The story could begin with:
The COW drove a CAR… that looks like a BIRD…
Once your child memorizes at least 50 pictures, he or she will be able to memorize the pictures in sequence at one glance without the help of words or stories.
Speed Reading
There are two types of speed reading.
Right-Brain and Left-Brain speed reading.
For left brain speed reading, students are trained to read the words as fast as they can.
For right brain speed reading, students are firstly trained to see “images” (i.e. Words, pictures, shapes, patterns). They will be able to read and understand at the same time.
So, by seeing the words as images, makes it possible to read and learn at a super-fast speed. This is because there is no need to read and understand the word.
For your child to succeed in speed reading, you must incorporate other right brain training like flash cards, photographic memory, Mandala, and others.
Photographic Memory Training
These fun activities can be in the form of games or puzzles.
The whole idea is to get your child to look at pictures or images as fast as possible in color, photos, number of objects, and others at a glance.
Next, your child is supposed to identify the differences of the pictures or objects, which could be the color, position of the object, and others
This is to train your child’s right brain and to learn how to memorize in the form of an image of what he or she has seen at a glance.
There are a few types of photographic exercises -
Quantity Memory – to determine the number of objects seenThe exercises mentioned above are the numerous variation used in order to keep the exercises interesting to your child.
Photo Image Exercise
This is a photographic memory exercise. Is a form of training where your child is trained in their brain’s ability to capture and hold an image in the mind.
For example, you can take an orange colored card with a blue circle, triangle or square. And get your child to stare at the card for about 30 seconds, then look at a white sheet of paper.
What he or she will see is an after image.
Your child will see the colors in reverse. The blue circle will be orange and the card will be a blue color.
Practice this every day and eventually, your child will see the card as the same color.
You need a lot of practice!
The aim of this training is to develop visualization by allowing the mind to develop clear mental images, opening the subconscious of the right brain (creativity, intuition, and memory).
Glenn Doman "Encyclopedic Knowledge" Flashcard Requirement
What are Glenn Doman’s Encyclopedic Flashcards?
“When there is no knowledge, there is no intelligence.”
This program uses picture flashcards to build a child’s knowledge base.
Glenn Doman calls these cards “bits of Intelligence”. A “bit of intelligence” is one bit of information.
For example, if you take a picture flashcard of a blue car, that is a bit of information.
What are “Bits of Intelligence” flashcards?
To Glenn Doman, these flashcards got to meet the specific requirement for them to be called “bits of intelligence”.
Do make sure you get flashcards that meet Glenn Doman’s “bits of intelligence” requirements.
Right Brain Education Library meets both Glenn Doman and also The Shichida Method requirements.
Here is an example of “Bits of Intelligence” Flash Cards
Pic. 1 Pic. 2
If you say this is Pic. 1 is “fries”, it is incorrect and not precise. It does not meet the requirement of Glenn Doman’s “bits of information”. It is a picture of “burger and fries”.
It is also not discrete. The picture does not show “one item”, which is supposed to be only “fries”.
It is also very ambiguous. A child would believe Pic. 1 is “fries”.
However, if Pic. 1 is called “burger and fries”, then it is precise and discrete because it shows “one subject” and is also unambiguous.
Pic. 2 meets the “bits of intelligence” if you say it is “fries” because it is precise, discrete and unambiguous.
Summary
What do Parents Need To Know?
Right brain schools or classes conducted by Shichida Method, and Heguru, are held once a week.
Shichida recommends all parents teach their child right brain education at home after these classes,
We as parents play the biggest part in right brain education, or you could say education in general.
How Can You Teach Your Child Right Brain Education?
At RightBrainEducationlibrary.Com, we believe teaching your child is easy.
With the right method and right brain materials (flash cards and right brain memory exercises), you can start your child's lessons.
Learning is a never-ending journey...
make sure your child feels learning is FUN!!
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