Dr. Levine tells how parents can emphasize students' natural interests. |
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Dr. Mel Levine talks with two students exhibiting signs of attention disorders and offers possible explanations for their behavior and difficulty concentrating. |
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Children who struggle in school need to feel they are discovering how to manage their learning difficulties and others are helping them to better understand how they learn. |
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Dr. Levine offers teachers and parents helpful advice when assisting students with organization. |
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When writing requires conscious physical effort, it can be difficult to simultaneously remember grammar and spelling rules and keep up with classroom note-taking. Two students and a teacher talk to Dr. Mel Levine about their experiences. |
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Adolescents' abilities to plan, review options, control production rates, self regulate, and make use of previous experiences are affected by frontal lobe development in their brains. |
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A seventh grader can't answer a reading-based question in class. He and Dr. Mel Levine discuss how hard it is to remember what you don't understand. |
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Success in math relies, in part, on the retrieval of memorized facts and the ability to remember the procedural steps required to solve a problem. A fourth-grade boy and a third-grade girl share their problems with Dr. Mel Levine. |
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Dr. Levine describes critical thinking in this video clip from the Developing Minds multimedia library. |
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Dr. Mel Levine asks us to consider the different controls of attention and the impact of attention on all academic pursuits. |
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It's possible to think of the human brain as a kind of orchestra in the sense that there are a lot of different instruments playing a lot of different roles and that these desperately need to be coordinated. That orchestra with all of its different players is incredibly complex. |
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Success is like a vitamin. You need success to continue to grow. |
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On the book tour for Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, Dr. Levine talks to audiences about the phenomenon of work-life unreadiness. |
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Dr. Mel Levine talks about spatial organization and the difficulties of managing materials. |
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Dr. Levine discusses student output in the video clip from the Developing Minds multimedia library. |
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Dr. Levine describes social cognition in this video clip from the Developing Minds multimedia library.
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Dr. Mel Levine introduces the Reaching Mind series and discusses differences in learning. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Mr. Rick Lavoie talk about unique challenges adolescents face navigating through school. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Stephen Asher discuss issues related to students' successes and struggles with social cognition. |
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Dr. Mel Levine, Dr. Stephen Hooper and Dr. Carl Swartz discuss issues of attention and student performance. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Louisa Moats discuss the difficulties students have learning to spell. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Monty Neill talk about testing in public schools and the unfairness of some traditional evaluation methods. |
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Dr. Levine and Dr. Mike Riera of Family Talk on Icicle Networks discuss Dr. Levine's philosophies and misunderstood students who are struggling in school. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. George Hynd discuss neuroimaging, what we're learning about the brain and mind, and the implications for learning. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Paula Menyuk describe language development difficulties as they affect education. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Howard Gardner discuss leadership, creativity, and multiple intelligences. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Bruce Pennington discuss the extent to which learning problems have a family influence. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Bob Brooks describe self-esteem, issues for students with learning differences, and ways to help. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Lynn Meltzer discuss helping students use and develop strategies.
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Dr. Levine discusses student output in the video clip from the Developing Minds multimedia library. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Ms. Pricilla Vail discuss students' struggles with reading. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Betty Osman explore the lives of students who are disappointing themselves, and perhaps their parents and teachers, because they are not meeting expectations. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. William B. Carey explain the ways students’ behavioral styles can impact their learning. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Bethany Roditi discuss neurodevelopmental aspects of learning math. |
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Dr. Levine describes social cognition in this audio clip from the Developing Minds multimedia library.
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Reid Lyon discuss how students learn and variations in brain function that impede learning. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Katherine Butler discuss language as a critical tool for learning and also an outcome of learning. |
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Dr. Mel Levine and Mr. Tom West explain the ways visualizing information can help students learn. |
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