Teachers of Left Handed Students
Educators of Left Handed Children
At Left Handed Clubhouse, we are committed to empowering, understanding, and educating the Lefties of the world.
We place an especially high emphasis on education for Left Handers.
By providing resources and information to Left Handers and those who assist them along the way, we have made an ongoing dedication to help Left Handed people reach their maximum potential.
As an educator, it is important that you become familiar the needs of a left handed child. Remembering that Lefty students have different needs can often be an adjustment, especially if you are right handed.
Left Handed children face many challenges during their educational years. The Lefty brain, often wired slightly differently than the Righty, can face extra challenges prior to adjusting to the right handed world.
Having grown up as Lefties, we are familiar with the challenges that face the southpaw student. In fact, most of Left Handed Clubhouse’s Team, (90% of us) faced extreme challenges in mathematics and science throughout school. We often felt unmotivated to learn those subjects because our left handed brains were not considered during our education. Even though we didn’t do well in math and sciences during high school, The Left Handed Clubhouse is proud to say that we all would consider ourselves “knowledgeable” in most math and science topics. The reason for this is that we learned how to make math and science work with our Lefty brains.
We used to dread learning, and associated it with feelings of incompetence, disappointment and frustration. Now that we have learned to make education work for us, we love learning and have dedicated ourselves to being lifelong learners.
Teachers make such a difference in the education of a child. We would like to thank teachers everywhere for their dedication.
We at The Left Handed Clubhouse have gathered information provided by Left Handers on a variety of topics. We are always searching for more information. As an educator of Left Handed children, we would love to hear your ideas and stories about anything Left Handed. If you have found an effective way to teach southpaw students, or have anything to share with us, please contact us. We would love to share your insight with the Left Hander Community.
The topics and resources for educators and teachers of Left Handed children are intended to provide insight and inspiration to those who are unfamiliar what it means to be lefty.
With today’s accessibility to the internet, southpaws from all over the world are able to provide teachers of Lefties with the information we wish our teachers had access to!
For more information about Left Handed Education, feel free to check out our Left Handed Resources
Since we have taking such a liking to learning, we have done a lot of research on being Left Handed. We have found a lot of great tools that every southpaw parent should check out. We also made sure that our resources weren’t costly or ineffective, to make sure that our readers and visitors get what they need with what they have. We hope that you will find these tools as useful as we did. By sharing these resources, we are confident that we can inspire you to bring out the very special gift in your Left Handed child.
Left Handed Related Books
We have found some books that are sure to help you a lot more with understanding your Left Handed child. There are lots to choose from, but our Team Members have put together a “favorites” list that we think would really be useful.
Your Left-Handed Child: Making Things Easy for Left-Handers in a Right-Handed World
This book gives great tips on how to help Left Handed children overcome the obstacles associated with southpaw syndrome. We recommend this for any parent or teacher looking to support their lefty.
It sounds funny, we know. But binders, books, and other similar items were just not made for Lefties! This book is a great way to show your left handed child that there are ways for Left Handers to learn.
Listen to what other people said about the book:
“This book is a creative way to help children learn. My nephews love it because of its unconventionality. They’re intrigued by the fact that it doesn’t open like all their other books. It helped them count to 10 AND learn about the different animals the whole way! Great learning tool.”
“This is such a cute book. The alliterations make it such an fun and easy read and the illustrations are so kid friendly and colorful. Both my 3 year old and 1 year old really enjoy this book, especially because it’s backwards which makes it stand out from the rest of their books! I highly recommend it!”
Enough said, right?
For a full list of left handed books, and other left handed products, click here
Tools for Left Handed Success
Most Left Handed People learn to adapt to a world where products are designed for Righties.
That is because many of us grew up before specialty products were easily accessible.
By trying Lefty specific products, Southpaws are able to get a taste of how the world would be if Lefties were the majority.
It also helps Righties get a feel for the challenges that are faced by their often misunderstood Left Handed Loved ones. As the parent of a Lefty child, we recommend that you try using at least one left handed tool. Feeling the awkwardness and discomfort that are experienced, particularly for the first few (or hundred) times, will help you understand why your Left Handed child may seem “unwilling to learn.”
Nearly every product that is made for manual use can be found designed for Lefties. We’ve put our favorites for parents below:
Left Handed Scissors
Every kid should have a pair. Every teacher should try it once so you can understand how Lefties often feel.
Left Handed Safety Scissors
These are really great to have in every school. Affordable and helpful to Lefties. Priceless in our book!
Left Handed Desk
For more tools for Left Handers, or for older Lefties, click here