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Newsmaker: Carolyn Melmed on effective study habits Mutsumi Takahashi interviews Carolyn Melmed about her DVD, Unleashing Your Child's Potential.

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Carolyn Melmed & Associates

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Carolyn Melmed is a founding member of the Lansdowne Centre, a school for children with learning difficulties.

She has 35 years of teaching experience, both in the classroom and on a one-to-one basis, is a certified mediator and has designed workshops for parents, teachers, support staff and managers.

CURRENT PARENTING WORKSHOPS:

• Increase Your Child's Positive Behaviours: For parents of young children. This workshop teaches parents and guardians of young children how to give praise effectively, set limits, inspire cooperation, communicate more effectively with their child and end whining tantrums and dawdling.
• Ms. Melmed has recently released a new DVD, "Unleashing Your Child's Potential" to help children develop organization and study skills. This is a valuable resource for parents who want to work together with their children to optimize their learning potential and academic performance.

Carolyn Melmed & Associates

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Carolyn Melmed is a founding member of the Lansdowne Centre, a school for children with learning difficulties.

She has 35 years of teaching experience, both in the classroom and on a one-to-one basis, is a certified mediator and has designed workshops for teachers, support staff and managers.

CURRENT WORKSHOPS:

• Unleashing Your Child's Potential: parents will learn skills and strategies to help their child achieve higher grades, beome an independent learner and a more successful student.
• Organization and Study Skills - high school students learn practical techniques and strategies to develop effective organization and study skills.
• High School Preparation - students in Grades 5 and 6, accompanied by their parents, learn organization and study skills to help prepare them for high school.
• One-to-One Tutoring for students grade 5 through university.

Ms. Melmed has recently released a new DVD, "Unleashing Your Child's Potential" to help children develop organization and study skills. This is a valuable resource for parents who want to work together with their children to optimize their learning potential and academic performance.

New DVD focuses on study skills

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The excitement of going back to school has probably faded by now and children may be feeling swamped by homework or having trouble completing assignments. To help young people develop better study and organization skills, Carolyn Melmed, an educator with 35 years teaching experience, has created a new DVD entitled Unleashing Your Child's Potential.

The DVD covers four topics: motivation, communication, discipline and learning strategies. Viewers learn methods to solve problems, strategies for stopping procrastination and ways to master memorization and organization. For more information, call (514) 482-3819. The DVD, appropriate for school-age children to university students, costs $49.99 and is available from the website (with a 20 per cent discount) at www.ImprovingStudySkills.com.

DVD LAUNCH > article from Fielding Focus

Mark down Thursday November 11 (changed from Wed. Nov. 11). On that evening, the Central Parents Committee will host the official launch of Carolyn Melmed's new DVD: Unleashing Your Child's Potential. A teacher and founding member of the Lansdowne Centre, Ms. Melmed knows that success in school requires good study habits and that a strong relationship between students, parents, and teachers is essential to effective learning. Unleashing Your Child's Potential is a comprehensive instructional guide that focuses on how parents can become good coaches, motivate their children and provide them with learning methods, a sense of discipline and effective communication skills. Parents will learn how to help their children evolve from being dependent on parents and teachers, to becoming independent learners, and ultimately to achieve higher grades and become more successful students. Parents can learn how to set up a good learning environment at home, an effective homework routine and how to prepare for parent/teacher interviews.

"I believe that learning is a shared responsibility and that parents must work together with their children to optimize their learning potential and academic performance," says Ms. Melmed. "I was compelled to produce this DVD because of the lack of resources for parents, despite their being indispensable in the learning process."

Fielding Focus, an EMSB Newspaper

Mark down Thursday, November 11. On that evening, the Central Parents Committee will host the official launch of Carolyn Melmed?s new DVD: Unleashing Your Child?s Potential. A teacher and founding member of the Lansdowne Centre, Ms. Melmed knows that success in school requires good study habits and that a strong relationship between students, parents, and teachers is essential to effective learning. Unleashing Your Child?s Potential is a comprehensive instructional guide that focuses on how parents can become good coaches, motivate their children and provide them with learning methods, a sense of discipline and effective communication skills. Parents will learn how to help their children evolve from being dependent on parents and teachers, to becoming independent learners, and ultimately to achieve higher grades and become more successful students. Parents can learn how to set up a good learning environment at home, an effective homework routine and how to prepare for parent/teacher interviews.

"I believe that learning is a shared responsibility and that parents must work together with their children to optimize their learning potential and academic performance," says Ms. Melmed. "I was compelled to produce this DVD because of the lack of resources for parents, despite their being indispensable in the learning process."

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