It starts with the online questionnaire

In completing the online questionaire, even ‘long-serving’ students become aware for the first time, how they actually learn best when dealing with new and/or difficult material.

The most reliable results you get when you tell your child that The most reliable results you get when you tell your son or daughter that this is not is a test in the traditional sense, that there are no ’right‘ or ‘wrong’ answers and no ‘failing’.

Resist the temptation to be present when the student completes the online questionnaire, or wanting to influence the responses out of parental care. Otherwise the result could be distorted because even young adults tend to give answers under supervision to please their parents.

Have confidence – even students with learning problems and/or concentration difficulties have a gut feeling for HOW they learn best – although sometimes it doesn’t look like that!!  

One online questionnaire - three versions:

• Student Version (addressed to the student)
• Parent Version (addressed to parents or guardians)
• Teacher Version (addressed to the teacher of the student) 

The LSA-Senior consists of:

One up to 15 pages long ‘Personal Report’ with learning recommendations, graphs and charts. There is also an overview, called ‘Profile Summary’ which describes the most important elements of your son's or daughter's individual learning style.

The Parent Version contains recommendations and information:

• about the best way to communicate with your son or daughter successfully
• how one can support senior high school students how they can take in new/or difficult information best and overcome learning resistance
• for setting up the optimal learning envoirement at home
• how you can increase the learning motivation of your frustrated young adult
• for reducing or completely avoiding fear of exams
• additional important information about:
•   signs of giftedness
•   warning signs of underachievement
•   safety on the Internet
•   attitudes towards authority figures
•   possible reasons for playing truant

The Teacher-Version contains:

• Information from the Student Report
• the best way to communicate positively with a senior high school student
• advice to stimulate individual motivation
• descriptions how learning frustration can be overcame through better matching teaching methods
• information, in which which classroom set-up this student learns best
• precise recomandations for avoiding of learning stress and fear of excams 
• strategies to prevent trancy
• tips for effective classroom management and group work based on natural learning style preferences
• personalized lesson planning

What your senior high scholl student receives in the Student Version: 

• Description of the 4 aspects of the learning environment which can either influence school performance negatively or may lead to learning success
• The 3 unique physical combinations which can enhance or reduce learning ability, especially during exam preparations
• At least 6 attitudes that are important for finishing school and continued studies
• The 3 best strategies how to succeed in a learning group or better learning alone
• 10 recommendations how pone can teenagers can concentrate best and study hard during the last two years of general schooling

What does such an LSA Profile look like?

What does the Learning Style Analysis offer me?

LSA reveals ... individual personal learning style combinations of your almost adult child..

LSA shows ... how the learning environment should be redesigned in order to achieve better academic results.

LSA provides ... guidelines to help concentrate better and pass excams successfully.

Finally the LSA profile also tells you how similar - or completely different to your own learning style the natural learning style needs of our almost youngster are.

If you have several children at home, all school-aged siblings should do an LS Analysis so that you can give give appropriate individual support. A comparison of profiles will show how different the natural learning needs of your children generally are.

So do not expect that:

• your children have the same learning style like you,
• neither children nor teenagers - and certainly not young adults - will use learning strategies willingly and obediently that YOU suggest with best of intentions; because only children who have a similar learning style like you, follow your advice;
• all siblings can learn successfully in the same manner because they all have individually different learning needs.

Trust your children, no matter how old they are  - they know best how they want to learn. 

Allow them to learn in their own way according to the recommendations in the LSA Profile...

 ... and you'll be amazed how quickly they will experience learning success!