Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we look at the importance of small tasks and how everything builds upon each other one step at a time. We talk about how simple tasks are important in their own right and how they snowball over time with consistency and discipline to master foundational skills and create banks of successes for kids. I go deeper on how to make progress tangible for kids and how important i...

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we dive deep into number sense and what that actually means. We talk about the importance of having solid math skills and foundation as well as mental math ease with the four major operations. We talk about the importance of number sense and confidence in oneself to excel in mathematics. We also look at the importance of making sure your child has their multiplication fac...

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we look at what it means to be a visual or phonetic learner, and why it’s so important to know the difference. By teaching visual learners visual-based tools we can avoid bigger problems. In this episode we talk about two visual based learners who once given the right toolset, started to identify as readers where before they struggled. We look at the fact that visual-base...

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠As my good friend and Peloton instructor, Denis Morton, says “Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent.” We explore in this episode how important it is for students to master skills correctly and, in particular, the mechanics and the neuromuscular patterning of letter writing. We look at how that indicates how well a student will do with the pace of school and assignments. We al...

Like what you hear?? ⁠⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠In this episode we will look at how the breath and teaching breathwork affects the structure of the brain. We revisit and explore the neuroplasticity of the brain. We look a little at the science and what the breath does for the body. We explore one of the breathwork exercise that I use with students at the beginning of every session. In this episode we talk about: How breathwork af...

Like what you hear?? ⁠Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learners to help support us grow!⁠What is gratitude? Why is it important? What little things are you grateful for? And how does that make you feel in your body? AND how does it apply to academics?In this episode we look at how gratitude can change what a child perceives, what they notice, and how that applies to supporting their academic journey. We try out a couple of exercises to explore perception and look a little dee...

Like what you hear?? Consider donating to TTM: Creating Confident Learns to help support us grow! In this first episode, we look deeper at how to create confidence in learners through influencing the brain-body connection using The Toprakci Method. We look at teaching the whole child and creating foundational skills to change the synaptic connections of the brain and influence the internal state. We explore the brain-body connection and look at how a child is processing and thinking; and the ...

The Toprakci Method: Creating Confident Learners specializes in creating confident learners with a growth mindset. The Toprakci Method uses a unique combination of breathwork, brain-body work, GRATITUDE, and even a clay-based learning program to affect the neuroplasticity of the brain to help dramatically improve students’ ability to spell, read, grasp number sense, and focus. STRUGGLING students CAN be transformed into CONFIDENT LEARNERS who become academically successful-permanently (!) - i...