Critical Thinking for Life - Mentoring Minds Program for Educators

The Mentoring Minds Program is a unique program that is designed for parents and/or teachers who not only like to teach, but who care enough to want to help take their pre-school through Jr High School students to the next level academically. 

This interesting, fun and effective program was designed by Michael and Lisa Lujan, parents of two young daughters, who believe that educators can teach children, not just the basics, but to be critical thinkers and effective problem solvers.  To this end, they created an educational product that covers numerous areas of learning which may present difficulty for some students to include: math, reading, writing, science, Spanish, vocabulary, practice standardized testing and much more.  The products reinforce basic learning in school by using repetition, games and other clever means to hold a student's attention. 

In addition, they have a product designed specifically for students at risk.  This product will help teachers understand and then identify at risk students.  It then provides the tools the teachers need to effectively deal with the differences these children may exhibit. 

Parents also can benefit from all this website has to offer.  In lieu of teacher education perhaps due to lack of time on the teacher's part, parents can also learn to become their own child's teacher. The products are easily understandable for parents to grasp and can help parents spend quality learning time with their children outside of the classroom.  They allow students to focus on those areas in school where they are having the most difficulty learning or where they just need a little boost on standardized tests.  

Math is always a huge concern with parents as many parents aren't even familiar with some of the ways math are being taught in schools today.  Basic math is what it is, but the way it is taught, so that a child can grasp the concepts and use it to be effective problem solvers, is very important.  Math Essentials helps your child build critical thinking through exercises designed to make them reason out a problem rather than just learn it by memorizing it.  Teachers can work with the student as Math Essentials encourages the student to show their actual work leading up to how they solved a problem.   The strategies for teaching math produce results.

The website offers complete descriptions of what each Mentoring Minds product can provide for your child or student.   Mentoring minds is well worth your consideration whether you are a parent or a concerned teacher at any elementary and junior high level.