Are any of the following things true for your child or student?

"Learning is not about being smart, it's about strategy and any child can learn strategies", says Pat Wyman, America's Most Trusted Learning Expert, and author of Learning vs Testing, Strategies That Bridge The Gap.

I've written this book to help your child get higher grades and much higher test scores. Parents and teachers can expect to learn how to significantly raise their child's standardized test scores and can expect to see their child "beam with pride" when report card time rolls around.

In this ground-breaking book, which has already helped over 200,000 children raise their grades to A’s and B’s, you can expect to learn how:

• To help your child cut their study time in half
  
  
• To motivate your child to "want to learn"
  
  
• To help your child improve their memory with picture perfect summaries
  
  
• To substantially show your child how to raise their standardized and written test scores
  
  
• To expect your child to "beam with pride" when report card time rolls around
  
  

Readers will learn why written tests cater to one kind of learner - the one who is visual, neat and organized and thinks in pictures. You will discover that the vast majority of children, who learn by other methods - primarily by listening or hands-on, have a hard time showing what they know on written tests because their learning style does not match the school's written testing style. This is much like giving a baseball player a written test to see if he or she can make the team. Or it’s like asking a basketball player to shoot hoops and win the game, but using a baseball field to do it. This mis-match is typically why more than 70% of kids get the lowest grades.

Learning vs. Testing not only breaks new ground by identifying the learning - testing mis-match, but provides easy to follow solutions for every student to improve their grades and test scores.

There are so many ways to help you radiate "success" and I pray we do whatever it takes to reach you.

Because the information is aligned with the most recent research on the brain, school districts can improve their student performance and integrate the strategies throughout their entire curriculum. Parents will discover new ways to teach their children how to learn in all subject areas.

Pat Wyman's unique discussion about the mis-match between learning and testing styles identifies a problem faced in every school - how to help those students whose preferred learning style does not match the written, visual tests they are required to take. Her breakthrough is to not only identify why many students receive poor marks and lower test scores but to provide unique and refreshing solutions to such a long standing problem.

The reason many students face challenges in school lies in the way tests are structured. The tests are, for the most part, written. Moreover they are increasingly based on multiple-choice questions - because such exams are inexpensive to mark, easy to standardise and meet the increasing demand for assessments, comparisons between schools and national progress benchmarks.

For a child with a linear and visual learning style, such tests present few problems. But children with other learning preferences will be at a major disadvantage. This is because the way they have been learning is at odds with the way they are now being tested.

For example, students with a preference for kinaesthetic learning and who have stored their learning though physical means are now having to output that learning through a principally visual medium.

The practice of teaching directed to each child's unique form of intelligence (known as multiple intelligence teaching) has produced more sensitivity and motivation for the students as they learn. When exam time comes, however, non-visual students taught in their own style run up against a mis-match between how they have learned and the style in which they are being tested. And most have no strategies to cope. When they cannot translate into writing what they have learned in another style, they conclude that they are poor learners and a downward spiral of expectations commences.

Maybe, one day, we will design and use tests that are fairer, but Pat Wyman wisely does not hold her breath. The solution, she says, is to ensure that students are taught how to store and retrieve what they know in ways that make it possible to display that knowledge in written tests.

This book contains many such strategies and is therefore invaluable for any student who wants to get better grades. And for every teacher who wants to provide his or her children with the means to cope with the sort of tests they will face throughout life.

But the book has an even more powerful sub-text. Our pupils will not reach their real potential if we merely continue to focus on how to teach better. The real focus must be on enabling every student to have at his or her fingertips a whole range of learning and memory strategies to meet a wide variety of learning situations. A palette of learning colours, a repertoire of learning moves, and a medley of learning voices.

Only then will they become self-sufficient learners, fully able to capitalise, for example, on the enormous self-learning opportunities opened up by such new technologies as the internet.

In a world where knowledge is commonly estimated to be doubling every few years and where jobs require constant re-skilling, learning how to learn has become the essential underpinning skill of the truly educated person. The problem is that too many schools still only teach what, which can rapidly get out of date, when they should be teaching how, which is a skill for life.

Pat Wyman's book is an extraordinary gift to the key skill of the new economy - learning how to learn.

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Rave Reviews For Learning vs. Testing:

	"It's about time! The information in this book should be at the heart of our teacher education programs and used in every school. Using these strategies will greatly enhance the opportunities for student success as well as contribute to our understanding of how the brain works. It is my hope that real assessment of learning will be linked with how well our teachers are prepared to teach. Thank you for your unique contribution to educational innovation!" -Michael M. Honda, Congressman, CA
	"This ground-breaking and practical book will help every child succeed in today's 'higher standards', 'high stakes', school environment. It was written to solve the mis-match between student learning styles and school testing styles and help parents and teachers understand why most students in our schools have lower grades than they are capable of. The solutions are innovative, well-researched and compatible with what neuroscientists tell us about how the brain learns." -Colin Rose, Author of Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century
	"There is so much in this book that is extraordinary! It has changed the lives of literally hundreds of my patients. When children have been sent to me for prescription drugs to remedy their Attention Deficit disorders, I have told them about the strategies in this book instead. Rather than needing drugs to alter their behavior, what they really needed was a way to succeed in school. Their faces were jubilant when they came back after a month or so with excellent grades because they had learned how to learn. This is a well researched, easily implemented and compassionate approach to healing those children who need it most." -Stephen Guffanti, M.D., School Board Member, Homeschooling Parent, and Creator of Rocket Phonics Program, Vista, CA
	"If your child is not doing well at school, this book is essential reading. Pat Wyman has poured her heart, her soul and her 25 years' experience teaching kids how to learn, into these pages. She connects with the beauty and intelligence that reside in every child, even the so-called 'failures," and she understands that every child learns differently. Learning vs Testing is an amazing book. It is filled with grace, wisdom, and an abundance of practical strategies, tips and techniques. It will show you exactly what you need to do to nudge your child out of the academic doldrums, and bring them up from lower grades to A's and B's. Her approach works!" -Jim Dreaver, Parent and Author of The Way of Harmony
	"I found the information in Learning vs Testing to be enlightening and very valuable. I used the strategies with my granddaughter and her grades and self-confidence have soared! She is so excited about being able to communicate what she knows and her high test grades prove it. Thank you again for this compassionate and easy to use approach to education." -Russel Martino, Pasadena, TX
"Learning vs Testing can benefit all students. I use the visual exercises with my class on a regular basis, and they literally beg for more. I'm sure the Wyman strategies helped contribute to the 4th graders at our school getting the highest standardized math test scores in the entire state last year!" -Walden Powell, 4th grade teacher, La Entrada School, Menlo Park, CA
"As a high school English teacher and special projects coordinator, I see first hand what happens to the grades, test scores and self-esteem of our students when they do not receive the kinds of encouragement and innovative learning strategies described in this book. The A.C.E.S. program, when used as described, is a breakthrough in preparing our students to succeed both in school and in their lives beyond school. This information is inspiring and so needed, I hope to see it included in every K-12 curriculum and used by parents to help their children at home." -Mary Kay Henderson, Newark Memorial H.S., Newark, CA
"Learning vs Testing is a big winner for Pat's readers who want children to succeed. This book is a must for our staff in their quest to help children reach their maximum potential. Pat Wyman's spelling video and information on spelling contained in the book has been very valuable to me and the families I interact with. My son has the 100% magic spelling screen giving him the success formula. As a by-product, his 40 year old mother has learned to spell. Both of us enjoy the feeling of success." -Gail Watt, Flagstaff Family and Community Services, Killam, Alberta, Canada
"This book is a must for anyone who wants to move beyond multiple intelligences and help all children to be successful. I have used the strategies and they are easy to understand and extremely effective. I was fascinated with the information on vision problems and their link to reading." -Laura Tinney, Resource Specialist, Caleb Greenwood School, Sacramento, CA
"Learning vs Testing provides the much-needed answers to children's reading problems and exactly how to solve them. Every teacher and parent will be able to use this information immediately to improve reading ability and raise scores. The strategies included will give children back their sense of pride in being able to read at optimum levels." -Robert A. Williams, Executive Director, Optometric Education Foundation, Santa Ana, CA
"This book is innovative and offers practical strategies educators can use to empower students to learn in a style which will more closely match the way in which they are tested. The reading section entitled 'Why 20/20 eyesight is Not Good Enough' needs to be read by every teacher and parent who want to raise their student's reading scores." -Dr. Kristy Remick, Co-Author, Eyes on Track
"Learning vs. Testing offers principals, teachers, and parents a key resource for making important changes in student learning and test-taking abilities. This book provides an excellent basis for staff development in both current brain research which supports learning and testing styles. Included are man ready-to-use, practical techniques for making every classroom more 'student friendly.'" -Linda Sheehan, Principal, Holub Middle School, Houston, TX
"Learning vs Testing is innovative and based on strong psychological principles, especially establishing the true understanding of 'learning traits' and how to accelerate each child's learning, growing and success in school. Bravo! Children can now reach their goals, not their limits. The gulf between ability and exemplifying it with test results, as we know it, will no longer exist." -Sam Graci, M.A., President, Graci Research and Orange Peel Enterprises Author, The Power of Superfoods and The Path To Phenomenol Health Adolescent Psychologist
"Learning vs Testing, what a dynamic approach to a nation-wide problem with education. The strategies used in this book really do work in the classroom! Maybe someday, we, as educators, can 'bridge the gap between how students learn and how our schools test.'" -Cindy Kleiber, Substitute Teacher, Urbana City Schools, Urbana, Ohio
"Pat Wyman's new book is a stunning revelation of how teacher and parents can empower students to take control of their learning process and achieve unparalleled success. As a high school math teacher for 18 years, I have often seen the frustration of students who seemed to have understood in class, but tested very poorly. My teacher training classes left me unprepared to deal with this situation. With Pat's new strategies for visualizing, I look forward to transforming my classroom to a joyous atmosphere of achievement!" -Sharon Brighenti, Parent, Santa Rosa, CA
"Your book is terrific! The assumption that a 'mis-match' exists between student learning styles and the manner in which schools test is absolutely correct. The question is: 'What are we going to do about it?' Pat Wyman offers practical solutions to this problem." -Bob Collins, M.A., Vallejo Unified School District
""As both a physician and husband of an elementary school teacher, I am greatly concerned about ways to help all children actualize their fullest learning potential and be successful in our schools and throughout their lives. Pat Wyman's ground-breaking newest book, Learning vs. Testing, offers a learning-testing paradigm to help restructure education in the new millennium. Drawing on her expertise as a parent, educator, learning specialist and nutrition expert, Pat has not only identified an obvious problem between how children learn and how they are tested, but has prescribed practical and effective corrective strategies any teacher, parent or school system may easily implement and use. I have seen the exceptional results of using these strategies in the classroom and know that every child can benefit from them. Thank you for this extraordinary and timely gift." -Dr. T. Steven Ichishta, Internal Medicine, Cupertino, CA

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