Educators know that all learning begins with the brain. With decades of research and development behind it, Arrowsmith provides schools with a solution to ready their students’ brains for a lifetime of learning.
In order to learn, students need to focus, sometimes for long periods of time. At Arrowsmith attention refers to the brain processes responsible for focusing on some aspects of our environment and excluding others.
Students can strengthen their capacity to focus on key aspects of their learning tasks and of their environment, excluding extraneous material or distractions around them.
Memory can often appear inconsistent in even the brightest students.
Arrowsmith understands memory as a function of several different cognitive functions – discrete functions such as those which encode language, process concepts, remember details, and even hold onto a number of facts and figures.
Improving different aspects of memory means not only can students hold onto information more reliably, but more importantly - can understand it more deeply, and apply it to new and different learning contexts.
Being able to plan ahead, to create a sequence of mental steps or actions to solve a problem, and to retain relevant and changing information for periods of time is crucial to learning and mental performance.
Brain imaging studies have shown that the neural networks involved in executive control critical for problem solving have been strengthened through Arrowsmith participation.
How students act and react, being collaborative, being able to understand the perspective of others critical for empathy, interpreting non-verbal situations – all essential for emotional intelligence - are the bedrock of success in school and in life.
Arrowsmith improves students’ independence, and emotional and mental health: students, teachers and parents report that Arrowsmith has led to measurable gains in resilience, autonomy, and confidence.
Many students experience issues such as dyscalculia, dyslexia, central auditory processing disorder, expressive language and attentional issues – all which impact learning and historically have been understood to be lifelong. In fact, the brain can change – and with it, the elimination of these struggles.
Arrowsmith customizes part- and full-time programs that offer an end to the struggle related to learning disabilities and difficulties.
