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Jim Sarris
Phone: 914-552-3132- I teach 7:45-2:45 EST, M-F
Fax: 1-866-770-8012
Jim is a master motivator as well as an authority on memory strategies. In his 15 years of teaching, he has spoken with 100's of parents on how to get the most out of their child's ability. He has also worked with 1,000's of kids and knows the memory and test taking strategies that can instantly help them be more successful in school. He will share what he knows with your audience on any one of these topics:
- Motivation
- Improve your child's memory
- Test taking strategies
- Mnemonics and memory tricks
Why is Memory Skills Made Easy interesting to write/talk about?
Here is idea #1:
With the No Child Left Behind Act forcing teachers to add more content to the curriculum, they have less and less time to teach basic memory skills. The same skills that would allow students to score higher on the tests they are preparing for.
I can give your listeners/readers an explanation of:
- The latest on No Child Left Behind - how are we doing, what is working, what is causing the most problems.
- What parents should know about NCLB
- How memory skills will help their child score higher on NCLB tests as well as all the other state and local tests
- How simple it is to help your child learn basic memory techniques they can use the same day
- 3 strategies to use right away
Here is idea #2:
The best way to motivate your child is to help them achieve a little success so that they get a taste of it and want more. Improving your child's memory can make an immediate difference in their learning and can be the spark that gets them back on track.
I can give your listeners/readers an explanation of:
- Important tips to help motivate your child beginning today
- Reasons why your child is unmotivated
- How improving memory can be the quickest way to help your child be successful
- 3 strategies to use right now to improve memory
- Test taking tips to use immediately
Here is idea #3
Sometimes learning HOW to take tests can make all the difference in the world. Families with a lot of money send their kids to learning centers where they get all the tips and tricks that help them get better grades.
I can give your listeners/readers an explanation of:
- Why tips are so important and why rich parents spend the money
- Easy ways to reduce anxiety before, during and after a test
- Tips on finding the answers to: multiple choice, essays, short answers, true/false and matching exams
- Best ways to find out what's on the test
- What to do immediately after the test to guarantee an even better result the next time
Here is idea #4
Mnemonics are fun, everyone uses them (but don't know it) and they have been proven effective in scientific studies. Yet, most schools don't teach them and kids don't get 1/10th of the benefit from them that they could.
I can give your listeners/readers an explanation of:
- What mnemonics are
- Why they are so effective
- What mnemonics the parents themselves can use today to improve their memory
- At what age you can start using them
- How they help memory even outside the school
Author's Biography - Short version
Jim Sarris has been a Spanish/Math teacher for the last 15 years. He's worked at various schools in New York as well as New Hampshire and is currently a Spanish teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, NY.
Jim began using mnemonics while on a fishing boat in Alaska. Using many of the techniques described in his two books, Comic Mnemonics for Spanish Verbs and Memory Skills Made Easy, he began teaching himself Spanish at age 22.
As a teacher, Sarris relies on mnemonics to help his students remember the massive amount of vocabulary needed as a language learner.
Author's biography - Long version
Sarris majored in Education at the University of Massachusetts (1982) with a concentration in Mathematics. During his last semester, he completed his student-teaching assignment as a math teacher in London, England. Once he returned home, his plan was to travel to Alaska for one last adventure before becoming a math teacher. Needless to say, things didn't turn out the way they were planned.
Somewhere around Cleveland, Ohio, on his way to Alaska, he decided to learn Spanish.
To make a long story short, he made it to Alaska and began teaching himself (using mmemonics).
After having survived his experience as a salmon fisherman, he began his teaching career as a math/Spanish teacher. Jim has never forgotten how effective mnemonics were for him and it led him to publish his first book in 2004, Comic Mnemonics for Spanish Verbs.
Since its publication, he’s received many emails from parents who’ve enjoyed using mnemonics so much they were interested in a program to learn how to create them with their kids. That led to Jim’s current project, Memory Skills Made Easy, a step by step workbook/video tutorial of the most popular and powerful mnemonic techniques.
Sarris takes you and your child by the hand and breaks down the process so that, regardless of their age, your children can be creating their own mnemonics the same day…for any subject.
Remembering, retaining and recalling information has never been so easy.