There are few things more important to preschoolers than learning to print well, it gives them their first taste of academic success and builds confidence.
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If you're an adult who doesn't print well and you're in today's competitive job market you have problem. If you are college student doesn't print well and you have to fill-out in class test booklets with your own handwriting and present them to professors you definitely have a problem. Despite how smart you may be, your handwriting betrays you. If you don't think prospective employers and professors grade you down because of your sloppy handwriting, think again, it's harder for them not to, if your papers look like a kid wrote them. If you are like most adults, you have tried to fix your sloppy handwriting more than once, and nothing has helped. This is because, up until now, there has not been a handwriting system that was able to re-teach adults to have excellent handwriting once and for all. The Teachers Alphabet was designed to empower first time printers by giving them all the skills they needed to print like adults, and now it has become the best way to teach teachers how to teach kids to print excellently. Slide 6 tTA mp3 When the usual A-B-C teaching order was presented to these students By mastering one letter per day, we quit after 3 days. Learning to make a Capital A had nothing to do with making a Capital B, and when the students were told that a well-made Capital C had to start at a spot, under the Top Line "to look right," they couldn't remember its location for more than twenty minutes. "Where's the line?" they asked. It was then we realized the regular way of teaching kids to print, using an alphabetical teaching order and 3 lines, was educationally and developmentally unsound. The skills learned to make a capital A did not carry over to making a capital B. And the approximation skills necessary to guess where a "under the Top Line" capital C starts, are for third graders not Kindergartners! They did need a line. 4, 5, and 6 year olds are concrete learners--they need to see it. The kids were right! The A-B-C teaching order didn't make sense. Instead of building skills, we were ignoring the skills taught from the previous letter in order to make the next new letter. So we started over and asked ourselves, "What is the simplest letter and how can it be made? What letters are related to it? What skills are required to make the letters well, and is there a way that we can put them in an order so that the kids master the easiest easiest skills first? And how can we teach them in an order that lets kids be more successful and builds their confidence as well as growing their skills with less frustration ? Our answer was The Teachers Alphabet. Our 10 Foundation Exercises and 11 Directional Letter Groups are arranged in a progressive teaching order that starts with the easiest to make letters and works up in difficulty. Kids love it because it makes sense when they look at it, builds their confidence, and its helps them become better printers very quickly. Plus, with our 5 line format everyone finally knows where all the curved letters start and end. After the Teacher's Manual was written, we were able to design our student workbooks by working with real students and carefully noting which shapes and exercises gave them the most trouble. In some cases, we realize that certain exercises needed more than one page of examples to practice and some shapes need more examples to trace on the same page. Our Teachers Manual and practice workbooks were not the result of an educational theory, they were borne from years of working with students and perfecting our materials until we found what works best with young learners and their teachers. Our lessons are progressive and student-based. The skills mastered in one lesson build to the next lesson and then to the next. Students can only practice a Directional Letter Group when they have mastered the Foundation Exercises that make those shapes. Plus, with our 5 lines, everyone finally knows where the curved letter start and end. As an adult, what the Teacher's Alphabet can do for you is to finally teach you the right way to make your letters and numbers excellently and consistently. This is not a repeat of what you weren't able to re-learn before. The Teacher's Alphabet is a mastery system that gives you a new way to see and make the alphabet using our unique 5 line format,10 Foundation Exercises, and 10 new Directional Groups. Following the The Teacher's Alphabet will give you the skills and awareness necessary for you to have excellent penmanship and teach it to others. Best of all our system comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.
