Improve thinking skills, achievement and behavior for children ages 6-10.

Enroll in Genie U today and receive the Thinking Skills for Children or CHAMPS CD-ROM, a $24.95 value, FREE.

To learn about our CHAMPS Learning Skills CD-ROM for children ages 11-16, click here.

Practical Thinking Tools that enable children to:

	Identify the key ideas or issues within a lesson or text
	Sequence what they have learned into a logical order for improved understanding
	Expose and check the validity of assumptions
	Identify inconsistencies of logic
	Clarify problems and create their own thoughtful arguments and solutions
	Set their own goals and develop a logical plan for achieving them
	Resolve conflicts
	Know how to predict the consequence of their own actions and therefore see why they should control any negative behavior

The immediate result is that children participate more enthusiastically, and see how to transfer logical thinking skills from their educational programming to solve personal issues.

The Thinking Skills for Children course is based on a colorful, engaging, interactive adventure story. Children follow the progress of the main character, called Yani, who has set an ambitious goal for himself.

It involves a difficult journey where Yani is confronted with problems he does not yet know how to solve. As he progresses on his journey, Yani discovers the value of THREE visual thinking tools. These tools enable him - and the children following the story - to resolve conflicts, set and achieve ambitious targets and predict the consequences of actions.

TOOLS:

The Cloud Tool

Enables children to clarify issues, problems and dilemmas that are constantly thrown up in curriculum topics. And, once clarified, to develop logical solutions. The cloud Tool shows even young children how to distinguish between surface WANTS and underlying, non-negotiable NEEDS and therefore develop win/win solutions to conflicts. The overall result is that discussions become more focused and analytical. And, the skill of logical problem-solving leads to more responsible decision making, better relationships, and a willingness to think more independently.

The Ambitious Target Tool

Enables children to set a goal, predict the obstacles that would prevent the achievement of that goal, and think through a solution. Children become more adept at understanding and setting academic and personal goals, and creating written work that is logical, prioritized and easy to follow. In discussions children become more able to analyze the cause of problems and to sequence new knowledge logically resulting in clearer communication.

The Branch Tool

Enables children to become more skilled at cause and effect logic and in deriving answers, rather than trying to merely memorize facts. This is a cause and effect tool that helps children to think through the consequences of their own (and other's) actions and behavior. It shows them how to change those actions to achieve a better outcome. Children who learn the Branch Tool develop the habit of "thinking before acting." They can see for themselves why they should change any negative behavior, and the motivation to change is their own analysis - rather than being imposed (and therefore resisted) by outside authority.

To learn about our free CHAMPS Learning Skills CD-ROM for children ages 11-16, click here.