Welcome to the Synap2it Toolbox! We are here to provide families like you with tools to give your students an edge on their learning, because when students connect to learning, everyone wins.  Today we are talking about Maximizing the Mental Powers of Students.


Cognition is everything. 

A sample of our cognitive abilities include:

• Memory
• Rule following
• Comparison and contrast
• Concept formation
• Symbol decoding
• Context comprehension
• Inferencing
• Deductive reasoning
• Process orientation

Synap2it addresses the student’s individual profile of weaker and stronger cognitive abilities so all students may maximize their mental powers before they encounter instruction that depends upon those very powers. 

These are not ‘all or nothing’ abilities. Every student develops their cognition abilities to a lesser or greater degree but each student may be expected to have a significant variability in the fitness and stamina of each different cognitive ability. 

For 35 years, individual teachers have adapted Meeker & Meeker’s Structure of Intellect (SOI) assessments and instructional materials to develop students’ cognitive abilities on a pupil-by-pupil basis. This was mainly within gifted/talented programs- a paradox which implies that only the most able students should enhance their cognitive abilities.

Now, faced with a broad cognitive diversity in every classroom, teachers seek a group-based, site-managed SOI design that can develop age/developmental-level cognition in all students while dedicating the pupil-by-pupil approach to at-risk students.

Thank you so much for joining us today. We are here to provide you with tools to give your students an edge on learning. You are not alone in searching for additional resources to provide for your students. 

Learners of any age can benefit from our brain based learning approach that gets to the root of learning challenges. Our ability to strengthen and develop learning abilities is what makes us stand out. Using our comprehensive brain based learning programs we help students recognize their full potential for learning. Everybody has strengths. We use the strengths to build the weaknesses.

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We look forward to staying connected with you, and thank you for joining the Synap2it community. 

Resources

Meeker, M.N. (1969). The Structure of Intellect: Its uses and interpretation. Columbus, OH: Charles Merrill

Guilford, J.P. (1956). The Structure of Intellect, Psychological Bulletin. 53, 276-293.