What Is Feuerstein?

Professor Feuerstein believed that the brain and intelligence are changeable in every person. By teaching children to stop and think to evaluate information more carefully they can overcome hurdles in their learning and attention skills. With modern advances in the medical fields the professor’s theories have been proven right. In a world where information is at our children’s finger tips, they need to learn how to think, evaluate and link information to be successful and life long learners

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Name	Organisation of Dots	From unit to group	Orientation in space	Tri-channel learning	Compare discover the absurd A & B	Identifying Emotions	From empathy to action	Think and learn to prevent violence	Know & Identify	Learning to ask questions for reading comprehension
Main Activity	Provide motoric and conceptual learning	Counting and grouping items according to number and configuration	Give and follow verbal instructions. Identify relationships between 2 objects	Successive & clear perception; Tactile gathering of info	Discover and understand nature of incongruity	Interpreting facial expressions and their appropriateness in situations	Identifying Emotion & best empathetic response in a situation	Increasing skills to interpret and solve conflict	Expand knowledge of the world	Looking at pictures; Reading & answering questions
Main Cognitive function(s)	Clear perception of shapes and definitions	Systematic exploration; Conservation of constancies; Precision and accuracy	Broad mental field to take in relevant info and details	Stimulate clear, precise data gathering	Systematic searching; Recognising incongruity	Systematic search; Accurate labels, logical evidence	Systematic search; Defining the problem; Projection of virtual relationships	Sequential thinking; Precision, forming a hypothesis	Accurate verbal labels; Comparative and differential behaviour	Accurate data gathering; Internalised mental images; Visual transport
Main operations	Comparative and representational thinking	Summative behaviour; Decoding & encoding	Inductive and deductive reasoning; Categorisation; Comparative thinking	Mental representation; Clear perception & systematic exploration	Comparative thinking; Analysis	Comparing; Differentiating; Inductive and deductive thinking	Comparative thinking; Deductive and Inductive processes	Categorisation; Logical and deductive thinking	Categorisation; Comparison, drawing conclusions; Reasoning	Seriation & analogical thinking
Main Goal	Strengthen perception; Organisation of space; Accurate processing of info; Accurate response	Preparation for mathematical thinking	Position in space and orientation to a reference point	Regulation of behaviour through integration of data gathering & rep. thinking	Systematic comparison	Thinking about emotions and their appropriateness	Social awareness; Understanding another’s perspective	Identify and solve conflicts	Enhance knowledge of objects, labels and their relationships	Understanding & expanding narratives
Why is this important?	Foundational instrument for many other cognitive related functions	Classification and planning; Fundamental concepts of maths are rules	Orientating self to object; Flexibility to a changing environment	Need accurate data gathering- foundational to other functions and operations	Comparison is required for all thinking processes	Reducing egocentricity; Increasing social appropriateness	Ability to respond appropriately to various social situations	To learn to live peacefully with others	To help us understand our own place in the world	To understand anything you read
Main difficulty in achieving this goal?	Impulsivity	Impulsivity; Precision and accuracy; Not recognising rules	Inability to orientate themselves to and object	Problems with above lead to imprecise frame of reference	Mediating the abstract concepts of the instrument	Lack of empathy or verbal tools	Lack of knowledge of social awareness	Complexity of the instrument; Seeing all the relevant cues	Lack of content knowledge	Poor language & syntax skills