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Thumbprint Learning© ® ™ is based upon the concept that every child's gifts are as unique to them as their own thumbprint. Thumbprint Learning© ® ™ was created by Bernadette Tynan to help children and parents meet the demands of life and learning in 21C. Thumbprint Learning © ® ™ is grounded in 17 years of research across the interrelated fields of education, child development, genius and giftedness, creativity and intelligence, the physiology of the brain and neuroscience. It is a system in which the author has combined research across these fields with the all important practical experience of working with children, parents, schools and adults in a wide variety of learning contexts and cultures around the world.
A system of learning for an age of the mind and creativity
“The 21st Century will be about the mind, there is no greater frontier to learn about and better understand. Ask most children today and they will know more about how their computer or cell phone works than they will about the best bit of technology around, the best gift they are ever likely to have: their own brain. This book and learning system puts into the hands of parents and children everything they need to know about the magic of their own mind and how to engage it and benefit from it – today”
Bernadette Tynan
One size doesn't fit all in learning
One size doesn’t fit all in learning. This is because in reality every child’s gifts are as individual to them as their own thumb print. Thumbprint Learning © ® ™ is uniquely a registered design and trade marked method. It provides parents and children with a DIY took kit of how to tailor-make a learning system that focuses upon, and makes the most of, each child’s individual gifts. Basically it provides a learning system for life, taking you from childhood through to adulthood.
Gifts come in all kinds of packages
The individual gifts of our children come in all kinds of packages, and cannot always be detected on standard pen and paper tests. For example, think back to school and you probably know someone who seemed average, but then went on to make their first million in their 20s while others were still paying off their mortgage! Their talent was obviously entrepreneurialism. Knowing how to identify and develop individual gifts like this means better support for children to get the best out of every learning opportunity. Bernadette Tynan shows you how.
Once children know the magic of their own mind, not even the sky is the limit
The past 15 years has seen research into the brain and child development, creativity and intelligence mushroom. No child or person should have to go through life today, as many of us did as children, - not knowing about how our brains think and learn best and how to get the most out of this natural power we all possess. Once children realise that the best bit of magic around is in fact the magic of their own mind, then not even the sky is the limit to what they can achieve.
A tailor-made system of learning that grows with you
Within the global knowledge economy knowledge as well as the importance of individual creativity and innovation are key to developing future business and industry and careers. The ways we live, learn and work are adapting to this rapid and exciting change. Thumbprint Learning © ® ™ helps prepare children for these changes by focusing upon developing individual talent, creativity and knowledge, and finding a system of lifelong learning that works for them, - for life. It is for this reason that Bernadette Tynan’s method is of interest to schools, business as well as parenting magazines, and leadership thinking within education ministries world wide. See links at the media page for further information.
Retrospective by Bernadette Tynan
“The expansion of mass education systems since the 19th century has traditionally focused on helping us all to develop what I term ‘knowledge downloading skills’. We learn and pass tests in order to succeed. This kind of learning is important and has its place in education and learning. At the same time, today in 21C and the global knowledge economy, knowledge PLUS the power of individual creativity and ideas are the energy that is driving us forwards. You only have to look at the internet, which although it is still far from perfect, is providing a forum for creativity and the sharing of innovative ideas. Children are naturally creative, we need to work to those strengths, so that they can not only learn better, but also become ‘knowledge creators’ themselves ready to meet the challenges of their own century. One of those challenges is that children now are likely to have many rather than one career in their lifetime, there will be jobs that we cannot even think about now, because the change is happening that fast, Thumprint Learning ® © TM is about equipping children with state of the art knowledge they need to prosper and succeed in this fast moving and exciting environment – creativity is good, knowing how to develop and nurture it is key”
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Thumbprint Learning© ® ™ is not only copyright protected; it is a fully registered design trade mark system that is protected by international intellectual property right laws. It features in publications by Bernadette Tynan which also come under the legal jurisdiction of HarperCollinsPublishers, a division of the global News Corporation International group. From time to time Bernadette Tynan has licensed organizations and individuals to be trained in and use the system under formal licence agreement and strict codes of practice. Lawyers representing Bernadette Tynan point out that any infringement of her intellectual property rights, or attempt at fraudulently claiming to use or falsify this system and/or licence rights and regulations, as has sometimes been attempted by individuals and organisations in the past, will, as then be vociferously pursued and successfully prosecuted under international IP law.
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