QUESTIONS IN EDUCATION

 

 

 

QUESTION: Our district has different areas that focus on at-risk students.  How can this program help?

 Answer:  MTI’s Dynamic’s program results in an actual change in the child’s brain map which influences a brain’s cognitive ability irrespective of the child’s specific at-risk situation.  When these changes occur, measurable results may be observed in the attenuating skill-sets such as reading, memory, listening comprehension, etc.

 

 The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) provides formula grants to state and local educational agencies (SEAs and LEAs) and is designed to increase the academic achievement and improve the quality of education for all students.  The Dynamic Mind course is being utilized at various campuses to further enhance student development to increase reading comprehension, knowledge retention, improvement on state and federal standardized tests scores, as well as to supplement the “Reach Out to Drop Out” Program.

 When struggling students in the Dynamic Mind Program achieve success and see their accomplishments, it is as if a “light bulb” goes on and confidence begins to build.  The Dynamic Mind program helps enable students to complete timed readings, retain knowledge, and experience things in an entirely new way.

 

 

QUESTION: Is this course a test prep program?

 ANSWER: No.  The Dynamic Mind Techniques can be applied across all components of education.  Consequently,  this results in an overall improvement providing students maximum opportunities to truly comprehend and retain knowledge.

 Student improvement following Dynamic Mind training is seen in a variety of areas: grades, standardized test scores, focus, and memory to name a few.  MTI has also recorded improvement carryover to musicians and members of sports teams.

 Kaplan and Princeton Review are examples of companies that have successfully developed programs specific to entrance exams and licensed test preparation.  Their techniques focus on answer selection strategies, practicing past testing materials, learning word root meanings, as well as providing exposure to topics that will likely be on the test.  Unfortunately, this strategy can only apply to the actual test and it does not help with the root cause of a student’s academic struggle.

 

 

QUESTION: How does the MTI Technology as used in the Mind Dynamic Workshops, create a change in the brain?  Are electronics or chemicals involved?

 ANSWER:  No – there are no wires, mixtures, or potions.  The Mind Dynamic’s Program is science-based but does not require “hooking up a student” to anything.  The brain is one of the body’s few organs that may be activated, even “worked out”,  using direction, thought and guided imagery.  In a period of 27 hours, over a 3-day period, a student is helped to reengineer their brain, so as to dramatically improve their intellect. This shows up in improved cognitive performance areas such as dramatically enhanced memory and reasoning abilities, focus, visualization and concentration.  It is not unusual to see students multiply their reading speed by a factor of four and their memory abilities by a factor of ten. The Mind Technologies program produces a real change and it begins in the brain.

 QUESTION: How can the Dynamic Program help a student taking an examination?

 ANSWER:  Frequently, students barely finish reading let alone answering the questions appearing in reading comprehension sections of many standardized tests. Often, they find themselves rereading the text multiple times, merely trying to recall what the story was about.  MTI enables a brain to more quickly read, comprehend, and retain the material by improving effective focus and concentration.  This helps the students on all testing, not just the standardized ones.

 Excessive stress forces the brains memory systems to shut down as it prepares for fight or flight.  When this occurs, a prepared student may test poorly. MTI works with the student helping them train their brains to cope with stress, often lifting the stress long enough for the student to complete the test. 

 Whenever the brain rewires so as to better use its cognitive abilities, all testing improves.  It has to because it’s the way the brain works.

 

 

 QUESTION: What benefits would this have as a professional development program for our staff?  

 ANSWER:  More than ever before,  questions are asked regarding what is the actual “Core Business” of schooling?  Is it educating or testing?  This is a fair question and one that bothers dedicated educators who feel forced to compromise due to imposed federal standards that often limit an educator’s ability to do the very thing they were educated and trained to do.

 The Mind Dynamics Program does not teach a test or how to test but it creates within the student the change necessary to better learn and understand and by extension, to test well.

 The world we live in today is a results focused environment.  Educators exposed to The Dynamic Mind Techniques become immediately more efficient in their current roles.  They develop a more defined understanding of the workings of the human brain from a scientific applications approach.  Thus, the educators became far more efficient in their current role and can quickly apply creative new strategies to an existing teaching curriculum, giving students new ways to receive information and increase their retained knowledge. 

 

 

 Question:  If this Workshop and MTI Technology really provides these results, why am I just hearing about it now?

 Answer:  Most of what is known about the human brain has been known for less than a decade.  Within that short span of time, the majority of the understanding of the brain’s role has occured.  This may also be said of many other areas of science.  Dr. Warren Chaney, the developer of the Dynamic Mind technology and co-founder of Mind Technologies, Inc., frequently says, “Although our company is presently the only one in the world doing the kind of work we do, we stand on very tall shoulders.”  His own journey through the brain began as a child and then expanded through his work, first in the military and later in education and business and industry.  His early research and work in human behavior, reading, memory, listening comprehension, etc., was first used exclusively in many of the world’s largest companies and organizations including AT&T, NASA, Celanese Chemical Corporation, the Sister’s of Charity Hospitals and many others.  It wasn’t until 2005 that he decided to move his former work from industry to the general public and to education, specifically.  In 2007, Mind Technologies was formed, the first workshops conducted and the rest is history.

 Dr. Chaney makes a simple statement regarding a student or an educator’s results, “If anyone completing MTI’s Workshop’s course of study and development does not meet the minimum standards, their tuition is refunded.”  Why?  Because the Mind Dynamic’s Technology work! 

In short, the reason one may only now be hearing about MTI is because the technology is new and the company in young.  But, in a results oriented world – results are what MTI is all about.

 

 

QUESTION: Does the Dynamic Mind Technology have any impact on athletic activities?

 ANSWER:  MTI Workshops are oriented toward helping a participant redesign their present brain mapping in such as way as to influence a positive outcome in all cognitive areas.  Many of the improvements occur in areas of the brain that handle the fine-tuning of thoughts.  The same areas also work with the fine-tuning of certain motor skills important to most athletic activities.  This may show up as improved skills on a computer keyboard or "as an edge” for a baseball pitcher needing to accurately pitch a ball, say to the low and outside edge of a plate.

 Many a school, college, or university has lost games because a key player had been suspended pending raising their grades.  That MTI helps in this arena goes without question.  But more importantly, MTI helps educate the conferee in the need for superb brain health and MTI’s results in that arena are very positive. When one’s brain health improves their overall health and performance improves.

 Part of the MTI training involves teaching one how to minimize stress.  A little stress is beneficial but too much stress causes an increase in the cortisol stress hormone which shuts down the brain’s memory system.  We teach the athlete how to relieve that stress temporarily – if only for a few moments.  This is often enough time for an athlete to make a play, come to bat, or engage in a specific activity.

 

 

 QUESTION:  Education often seems to be caught between cultures with one demanding new change and the other calling for a return to the past. Does the Dynamic Mind Workshop help an educator with this dilemma?

 ANSWER:  Yes! But, that is the simple answer.  The real answer is that both sides of the equation are somewhat correct and both are wrong.  Mind Tech seeks to bridge the gap providing a new understanding as it pertains to the brain and potential answers as it pertains to a real application in education.

 First of all, change will occur whether we want it to as a society or not.  That is why new inventions and intellectual creations such as calculus were and are constantly developed in parallel.

 MTI helps a conferee understand why a return to the “days of old” will never happen. However, there are elements of the “old” that were useful then as it relates to education and are useful today.  From a scientific standpoint, MTI provides an explanation.

 Society does not rely on the mind today as it did years and decades ago.  Much has been turned over to machines from calculation to entertainment.  Those who were labeled our “Greatest Generation” spent hours daily in practice, exercising their visualization skills along with their memory, listening comprehension, focus and concentration abilities.  They called it relaxation. 

 Families sat around a radio and listened to their favorite programming all the while focusing intently, creating mental images, and retaining the plot and characters in their brain. By 1958, it had been replaced by a machine called television that removed much of the mental effort from the exercise.  This constant practice sparked the human imagination and creativity, improved one’s ability to listen and comprehend, and made concerted focus and concentration, second nature.  When classic radio died, it was replaced by an entertainment machine called television that removed the need for this kind of mental practice.  The human mind suffered as a consequence.

 Libraries and newspapers were once the main resource for finding information.  One was required to “do something” to obtain it - beyond typing in a “Google” cue for a quick answer.  Much of this work has been taken over by the computer.

 No longer does one have to “recall or retain” a phone number to make a call.  Today’s cell phones can allow us to punch a picture of the person and the machine locates and dials the number for us.  Likewise, the once everyday common tasks of adding, subtracting, multiply, dividing, etc., have been removed from the mind and a machine has replaced it…the calculator.

 One could produce an endless list of the machine substituting for the brain, but that is counterproductive.  We will not return to that era nor should we necessarily want to.  What we must recognize is that the human brain is no longer doing the tasks it once did and because of that no longer operates as efficiently.  The old axiom of, “Use it or lose it,” remains true.  The Dynamic Mind Workshops engages this new technology to activate areas of the brain that are cognitively underused.  By getting it to do more, it does more.  The more the brain is worked, the more it can do.  In this way, the Dynamic Mind Technology helps bridge the gaps between dated cultures helping the student and educator meet accelerating change and mounting complexities. This has resulted in a remarkable brainpower breakthrough for the new century.